Mice Get Drunk For Science, May Help Humans Sober Up

[Strazdas]

Best way to be sober in the morning is to not be stupid and get wasted the night before. Seriously, its not hard.

Why get those poor mice drunk? I am sure for this kind of experiment you'd manage to find a lot of students willing to get smashed for science.

And I wonder if enzyme one could be used in a supervillain scheme. Slip one pill into a martini and goodbye mister Bond!

because sadly human experiments are illegal if they are not proven to work on animals.

 

[geldonyetich]

Getting drunk is one of the most pleasant things a lab mouse can be subjected to.

But hey, r-type species are torn apart in the wild, too. They were created by mother nature herself to be expendable, and do nothing but breed as fast as possible up to the available food supply. When spared the attention of natural predators, they tend to have mass die-offs after exhausting the food sources in the area. Getting vivisected alive in a science lab in exchange for free room, board, and controlled breeding is a comparably better fate.

That's a little detail you'll never see in a PETA handout.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

So what they're saying is, they've figured out how to get the benefits of Synthehol (drink all you want, get drunk all you want, all it takes is a simple shot and you're fully sober and ready to respond to a crisis) with real alcohol. Even Star Trek didn't think of that one.

 

[the darknees abyss]

What do the mice get like when drunk and how can they tell they drunk?