You better buckle up your helmets, Moonbats! We're going to explore 'The Science' and pick some brains!

It's recently been reported that human brain cells grown in a petri dish have been taught how to play the now ancient by modern standards computer game Pong. People on social media are much impressed!

However, that's nothing compared to what has gone before. Yes, what's old is new again once more.

In 2004, it was reported that rat brain cells grown in a petri dish had been taught how to fly a virtual fighter jet.

I  remember that well because multiple people scoffed at the idea and accused me of having invented it from my imagination. Never mind that it was reported by multiple allegedly trustworthy news sources at the time.

Apparently, that news was too disturbing for some folks to contemplate and it had to be dismissed outright as pure fantasy. Fast forward to this past week and some of those same people are discussing the more recent story as if they have never heard of the previous reporting.

So, which do you find more frightening; a petri dish of human brain cells playing an old video game, or a petri dish of rat brain cells controlling sophisticated weapons systems?

Perhaps the human brain cells could develop empathy and compassion for fully realized human minds and bodies. But, we have no reasonable expectation of rat brain cells recognizing humans as anything other than targets.

Unless... Those rat brains were somehow humanized. But, who would be crazy enough to do that? The Island of Dr. Moreau was fiction, right?

Well, if you've been paying attention at all for the last forty-some-odd years, you should already be aware that science fiction has a habit of becoming science fact.

Yes, rats and mice are being humanized. And, why not? What could go wrong?

Sweet dreams, Moonbats! Don't let the rats biting your heels keep you up at night. Don't worry, just trust the experts.