Strange Creature Immune to Pain (Naked mole rats)

LiveScience.com on Yahoo ^ | 1/29/08 | Charles Q. Choi

[NormsRevenge]

Have they tried waterboarding it?

[Larebil]

Show it a picture of hillary, helen thomas or rosie in their birthday suites.

That will more than hurt it.

[NormsRevenge]

The Naked Truth about Mole-Rats

[GeronL]

sausage-like creature??????? was this writer hungry or something?

[PeterFinn]

LOL!

[panaxanax]

It looks like John McCain, except with longer arms.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

FReaks with fur ping!

[SnakeDoctor]

I’ve heard of children with a disease that makes them invulnerable to pain (sounds like a quality of a Bond-villain) — and they have a much harder life than you’d think. They don’t feel pain, so they don’t notice when they’ve seriously hurt themselves.

They have to be watched constantly, undergo continual medical testing to make sure they haven’t seriously injured themselves without noticing — many have multiple broken bones, burns, cuts, etc. Pain, while horrible, is there for a reason — its an indicator of a problem.

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[Brilliant]

“Naked Mole-Rats”

That’s a euphemism for “Democrat.” And they are immune to pain.

[CDHart]

Poor little guys -

Carolyn

[WOBBLY BOB]

"They're the nicest, sweetest animals I've ever worked with ..." (so let's torture them...) weird.

[Brilliant]

You mean it looks like John McCain, except without the beady eyes.

[ClearCase_guy]

My mole rat tells me that he actually feels my pain — but I’m pretty sure he’s lying.

[Carry_Okie]

Pong

[GeronL]

They’d probably eat sugar gliders then

[KarlInOhio]

The rodents exhale high levels of carbon dioxide, and in such tight, poorly ventilated spaces it builds up in tissues, making them more acidic.

Algore declares the mole rat to be second species to be wiped out to prevent global warming. Humans are the first on the list.

[reagan_fanatic]

I’m not sure, but I think Hillary’s got something that looks very similar to that tucked away in her purse.

[Eye of Unk]

I bet the Russians already know this and have probably tested it on soldiers for combat.
Hopefully it can researched and be a new pain relief medicine, something non addicting.

[KarlInOhio]

It looks like John McCain, except with longer arms.

The article proves that they are not related to McCain: "They're the nicest, sweetest animals I've ever worked with — they look frightening, but they're very gentle," said neurobiologist Thomas Park at the University of Illinois at Chicago

[tumblindice]

“Naked mole rats”
They like to be called “progressives”.