Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:02 am Post subject: Commando spiders
A 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?
and down the road when it is public technology think of the advantages
breeding won't be *quite* so tricky any more _________________
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
We had some folks at JPL working on biomimetics for planetary exploration a while back... _________________ "Tarantulas are friends, not food" (but I bet they taste pretty good with butter and lemon!)
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.
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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? 
