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| wr3sd |
Commando spidersA recent radio news item mentioned actual ability to control the behavior of beetles via microelectronic implants. It's fun & slightly scary to think of something like Atrax being "rigged" to bite at will of the controller. If it could be engineered to operate by remote, just imagine dispatching somebody like Kim Jong Il No muss, no fuss, no telltale bullet marks. Possibly a spider sickened by contact with so noxious an organism, but perhaps it could be immunised first? 
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| cacoseraph |
and down the road when it is public technology think of the advantages
breeding won't be *quite* so tricky any more |
| Celeste |
Those clever folks at DARPA up to their old tricks again!
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080204-cyborg-insect.html http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/1..._turse_the_pentagon_s_battle_bugs http://eetimes.com/news/latest/sh...leID=202200707&printable=true http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0314-03.htm http://www.embedded.com/products/integratedcircuits/202201125?pgno=3 We had some folks at JPL working on biomimetics for planetary exploration a while back... |
| Krawll |
I'm sorry for being so negative but it saddens me to see that technology wins over nature again.
Sometimes i feel like i'm not even human ::lol::. Most humans will wanna have control over everything they come accross. Most of the time they'll do so with the help of technology . But the problem with technology is that it's only as good as the person controling it . Put that piece of technology in the wrong hands and it becomes a tool of destruction. On my part, i have never felt the need to control everything. I'm the kinda person who wants to understand things, maybe communicate with the living things around me up to a certain points or at least understand their behaviors . What i mean by that is that if i can't teach my own language to a spider for example, maybe i can learn theirs. Now about technology in general, i do use it everyday ::lol:: but not to control a living and breathing creature. The word '' control'' has always sound Evil to my ears. Krawll |