Sorry Guys, you are all out of a job.;)

[Sunfish]

Here is the link.

25,000 neurons from a rat brain can fly an aircraft. Anyway its late on SUnday night. Please read and enjoy.

http://www.napa.ufl.edu/2004news/braindish.htm

[montys ex teaboy]

You can teach a monkey to ride a bike, but you will never teach it to read road signs.:}

[unwiseowl]

Wow, that's amazing. It reads like an April fools joke!

[Chutney]

... but only from a white rat I believe Sunfish:E :E

[eggplantwalking]

This is really scarry stuff, especially when one considers how fast rats breed when compared to the average pilot. Notice, I used the word "average".

[steamchicken]

*looks around site*

Which PPRuNer is really a dish of rat brains, then?

[I-FORD]

How many neurons does a mosquito use for its flying skills (much superior to any of us I believe), apart from the ones used to see, walk, breed, eat, avoid being eaten etc...?

Looking at the brain of many flying creatures you can understand how little of it is needed to move in the air (even using your own muscles to fly).

We use the same amount of brain to fly the planes, the vast majority of our neurons are used to talk about it (and I challenge the rats to beat us in doing it :D )

[Jerricho]

I hope they can teach rats to speak, so they can ask "Why is that happening?" and "What the hell is it doing now?" :E

[Danny]

FOr more discussion see this thread (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=149466) in Jet Blast.