# Oh, GREAT. Telekinetic Monkeys. Just What We Needed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228 "2003-10-13T18:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/41 "2003-11-12T20:09:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cityboy916 \* > \*\*You mean we’ll live like @#$% kings? 😃 \*\* Right. It’ll be like _The Swiss Family Robinson_, only with more swearing. And telekenetic monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Sketch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Sketch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sketch)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/42 "2003-11-12T22:40:11Z")
I don’t know about you, but I hate every ape I see, from ChimpanA to ChimpanZ. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/43 "2003-11-13T06:40:20Z")
This thread is about monkeys. Apes are off topic. 😃 Or… if the OP had a cite it might prove me wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/44 "2003-11-13T13:12:23Z")
[http://www.aboyd.com/kong/](http://www.aboyd.com/kong/) So **he’s** behind all this monkey business! \ First Reagan, then Bono & Gopher, then Da Terminahnold, now this big ape! Give a Hollywood star an inch… ---
**Author:** ![bushytail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@bushytail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bushytail)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/45 "2003-11-13T13:37:20Z")
Is it just me who thinks experiments like that are a little bit sick and not worth the cruelty? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/46 "2003-11-13T14:04:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bushytail \* > \*\*Is it just me who thinks experiments like that are a little bit sick and not worth the cruelty? \*\* Perhaps, but anything is worth not having to get up to change the channels. IN fact I want to remove all motor activity from my Television watching experiance. ---
**Author:** ![Trob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Trob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trob)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/47 "2003-11-13T19:10:54Z")
Just the other night I was speculating on how the Borg came to be. Looks like we now know. Soon we will all have cybornetic implants and a colective conciousness. Mr. Rodenberry was way ahead of his time. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/48 "2003-11-13T19:24:13Z")
Or if you create a really good V-R suit in order to remove all muscle activity completely, you get the Matrix! ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228/49 "2003-11-20T14:50:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bushytail \* > \*\*Is it just me who thinks experiments like that are a little bit sick and not worth the cruelty? \*\* I, for one, do not think so. These experiments may well be very useful to develop means for invalid people to use artificial limbs by means of their thought. Some means exist nowadays that allow patients with ALS to use a computer to do things, mostly by means of blinking sectors in a computer screen on which they fix their eyes. But it is a slow thing, and not very precise. These experiments can help those people by creating a system that allows the patient to recover some fraction of mobility and interactivity with the world. And you would experiment with the monkeys because they are animals that are relatively easy to care for and house and have a brain that is somewhat similar to that of humans (great apes are both too expensive and delicate). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-great-telekinetic-monkeys-just-what-we-needed/207228.md?page=2)