I want to see what happens we just have mob lynchings of politicians if their approval drops to below 50%.
Maybe the world would become a utopia?
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Tbh I don't think anything would really get done. Politicians would just recycle the same super popular ideas to prevent themselves from getting lynched.
It'd be like how video games companies are just churning out safe titles they know will sell really well, but with our government instead of video games.
Historically the most popular political idea is "all your problems are the fault of those guys over there".
I heard there's a guy called Luigi with a cool idea.
Nice try, Mengele
Recreate the setup of Training Day and see how many people become dirty cops because they get finessed by Denzel Washington
The metal gear solid thing where you clone someone into two separate people but one gets all the recessive genes and the other gets all the dominant ones
You'd have to have the third, true 1:1 clone as control for this to be a valid experiment.
Seems pretty tame compared to various other answers, but keeping people under anesthesia longer than expected during surgery and seeing how it affects things like memory or personality.
Supposedly after an open heart surgery I had gone through over a decade ago, my mother swears my personality changed. Though I can't remember if that's true because my memory has felt, in a sense, kinda foggy since then. So I wanna know if it was because I was under for longer than expected or because the surgery itself.
I would wager that it's more to do with the surgery itself. Even transient hypoxia from blood not getting to your brain for a little bit can make a big difference. Anesthesia is used very frequently with rare complications, but complex heart surgeries have higher complication rates.
Sounds fair enough that it could have just been the surgery. I'm nowhere near a medical professional, but I can totally see unforseen complications having happened to me.
Brains are very finicky things and they get very upset if there's any disruption in their supply of glucose and oxygen, but anesthetics are carefully selected to not disrupt that as much as possible. Anesthesia might paralyze the muscles you use to breathe, but that's what the intubation and ventilator is for. The anesthetics we use don't affect the heart muscle because it uses different ions and chemicals than every other type of muscle in the body to generate contractions. However, open heart surgery will absolutely mess with the heart which will disrupt circulation.
I'd be interested in this too. Maybe some synapsed stop firing if they are put to sleep for long enough.
Alternatively your mother might be gaslighting you.
I doubt she is gaslighting me because there's not much for her to gain from her doing it. Tighter control over family is something I expect from her family rather than her.
Just wipe out ALL mosquitoes, and then measure what the actual influence is on the food-web for other animals and plants.
no joke but i remember reading something about this aagggeesssss ago where a group of researchers modelled the effects of no more mozzies on the food chain and found that, because barely anything fucking eats them, their eradication would be negligible
I really want someone to just really start messing around with the human genome, see the limits of gene expression. Let's add horns, let's add tusks, let's add tails, and wings, and carapaces, and antennae, and claws, let's just see what happens. Human evolution has gotten so tired and trite; let's add some spice.
Or creating super mutant athletes. Like how fast do you think a modified human body could run? Or jump?
Don't let the furrys hear you
Too late. Off to back those experiments... as soon as I figure out how to become one of the suspiciously wealthy furries
Try to find out at which temperature Musk begins to melt.
That sounds incredibly humane actually. Information like that will save lives.
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