[FrameworkFred]

...as if some sort of future rodent time travelers went back in earth's pre-history and tasked countless human-filled labs with unlocking the secrets of rodent medical science so they could, in their own time, mine the wisdom of the ancients and ensure their immortality.

[jjk166]

Would be a shame if some Vogons blew up the earth 5 minutes before their project was finished.