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more about #monkeys Quilt: Eat your heart out PETA! more » J_Frank_Parnell: All your banana are belong to us. more » Cribbage Left: 520 days? Didn't we just lab-test a VASIMR that can make a one-way trip in like 39 days? There's no reason not to wait a little while while the techno... more » Spider Sister: PETA's going to be pissed. more » geesejuggler: And thus was the humble origins of Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys! more » Im_your_Huckleberry: Just wait until they get back. more » pfc.joker: Not to sound crass, but why not send terminal health humans or maybe ... hell volunteers... one way trip or not - there has to be someone sitting ther... more » OCEntertainment: more » hamshank: if they go so far as to develop robots smart enough to feed and clean up after a monkey, they should just send the robots, and a radiation detector. more » Hamslicer: Hello Malevolent Mutant Martian Monkey Men ... have a banana? more » LittleDragon: If we send monkeys to mars before humans, I'll riot. I don't care if I have to do it alone. I will make such a nuisance of my self that they will send... more » ManchuCandidate: So either at the end of this mission we're going to have a bunch of dead monkeys or a bunch of pissed off hyper intelligent monkeys. more » Bigdamnhero: Also, the vocalization consisting of "zoom a zoom zoom" and "boom boom" has been shown to stimulate furious monkey rump shaking in many primate species. more » J_Frank_Parnell: 'Man can be domesticated.' Rock me Dr. Zaius. more » earthclanbootstrap: And I'll bet that "ooh-eeeh-ooh-ahh-ahh-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang" means "would you like to come over to my tree and groom for a while?" more » k4man: "Toss poop now?" "Toss poop now." more » BangarangRufio867: and the combining of "Boom, Boom, Boom, let me hear you say Way-Oh! WAY-Ohhhhhh!" means: PARTY TIME! Monkeys love them some 90's music. more » Ruthless, If you let me: Bad ... bad grammar overload -- error, error! more » mordicai: Bickerton's "Adam's Tongue" ([mordicai.livejournal.com]") talks about what he calls "Animal Communication Systems"-- & how the illusion of syntax & co... more » GreyHammer: i would like a monkey. i would teach him how to fist bump. more » -
#martianmonkeys
Monkeys May Be the First Primates Headed to Mars
Monkeys made it into space before humans ever broke the atmosphere, and now they might beat us to Mars. Russia is considering a program to train monkeys to work with robots for the long flight to Mars. More » -
#musicvideos
Music Videos of the Multiverse Apocalypse and the History of the Planet of the Apes
Director Sugimoto Kousuke creates action-packed, animated music videos overloaded with colorful visuals and global disasters. His "The TV Show" goes from hypnotically zen to multiversal meltdown, while "Full Moon Party" chronicles the rise and fall of civilization starring monkey kind. More » -
#madscience
Talk Monkey to Me: Monkey Language Contains Simple Sentences
While other primates have exhibited simple vocabularies, it has long been believed that syntax, the construction of sentences, was unique to humans. But a recent study suggests that at least one species of monkey communicates in vocalized sentences. More » -
#madscience
Gene Therapy Creates Superstrong Monkeys
It's not quite a supersoldier serum, but researchers have increased strength and muscle mass in monkeys with a small genetic tweak. And human trials for the technique are just on the horizon. More » -
#madscience
Monkeys Dance Only to Monkey Music — And Metallica
In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, music bridged the gap between worlds, but music may not actually be the key to interspecies communication. Researchers have found that tamarin monkeys don't respond to human music, only music created for monkeys. More » -
#supermonkeys
Monkeys Born Of Three Parents Usher In The Age Of The Super-Baby
Four baby monkeys each have three parents — proving that you could have more than two, but also that that mitochondrial swapping can breed out genetic diseases once and for all. But why stop at three parents? More » -
#conceptart
Portraits From the Steampunk Planet of the Apes
Chet Phillips imagines an alternate Victorian Era that's not only filled with rayguns and steam-powered contraptions, but also shows that technology being operated by furry-faced monkeys. More » -
