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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 31, 2009, 10:53:03 AM
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Fear our cyborg insect army of DOOM!
Remember that DARPA initiative from a few years back to create cyborg insects? With funding from the agency, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have managed to control a rhinoceros beetle via radio signals, demonstrated in a flight test shown on video at this week's IEEE MEMS 2009 conference. A module placed on the arthropod uses six electrodes affixed to the brain and muscles to commandeer its free will. The device weighs 1.3g -- much less than the 3g payload these guys can handle, and with enough wiggle room to attach sensors for surveillance. Ultimately, scientists say they want to use the beetle's own sensors -- namely, its eyes -- to capture intel and its own body energy to power the apparatus.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/29/cyborg-beetles-commandeered-for-test-flight-laser-beams-not-ye/
Can shark-mounted lasers and ninja monkeys truly be too fr behind?
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OMG....I have a phobia of crawlie bugs. Can you just imagine being the scientist
that works on this project having to handle those beetles. The hair stands on my
arms just typing in that "b" word. YUCK! I say kill all insects with extreme prejudice.
No exceptions. There is no good use for them.
And where is PETA in all this? Isn't this cruelty to a living creature to implant sensors
in those bugs. Why is PETA not out there protesting in front of Berlely over this cruelty?
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The use of computer controlled cockroaches to conduct intelligence in Tehran is so loaded with cosmic justice I will be smiling and giggling uncontrollably for a week over the mental image.
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The use of computer controlled cockroaches to conduct intelligence in Tehran is so loaded with cosmic justice I will be smiling and giggling uncontrollably for a week over the mental image.
Yeah.... now we don't have to tap the DUmmies phones anymore...just send in the rightwing spy roach....he'll blend right in with the other roaches.
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Yeah.... now we don't have to tap the DUmmies phones anymore...just send in the rightwing spy roach....he'll blend right in with the other roaches.
One glitch though...
...the DUmmies tried to smoke them.
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One glitch though...
...the DUmmies tried to smoke them.
Cover them in tinfoil...OOOPS!...that'll block "the waves".....uh....uh....we'll figure something out.