Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality 150
holy_calamity writes "DARPA's plans to create brain chips for insects so they can be steered like an RC plane are bearing fruit. Videos show that a team at Berkeley can use radio signals to tell palm-sized African beetles to take off and land, and to lose altitude and steer left or right when in flight. They had to use the less-than-inconspicuous giant beetles because other species are too weak to take off with the weight of the necessary antenna and brain and muscle electrodes."
I for one (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I for one (Score:5, Funny)
I am swarmed with the feeling that this will bug a lot of people.
Name (Score:2, Funny)
Large? For Beetles.
Benevolent? Probably not.
Cyborg? Check.
I suggest we call these the Big Bad Beetleborgs.
Yo dawg, I heard you like flying beetles... (Score:3, Funny)
FINALLY. (Score:4, Funny)
I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
We've always wanted to be a fly on the wall; but having your secret spy weapon get eaten by an insectivorous plant would be pretty embarrassing.
Who knows? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I for one (Score:5, Funny)
What, no lasers?
beetles... (Score:2, Funny)
Finally! (Score:4, Funny)
Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality
Well, it's about damn time. You know how long I've been waiting for this day?
/wipes away a single tear
Re:I for one (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Shame this is not genetic engineering (Score:5, Funny)
So, you don't want citizenship, do you?
Too bad this technology only works (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I for one (Score:3, Funny)
Of course it stings people; this is a war technology and it flies in the face of diplomacy and peace. We should be able to listen to our Beatles records in our VW bugs rather than collecting new weapons like a scarab collects shit. This ticks me off!
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Re:DARPA is giving violent people ideas. (Score:1, Funny)
Soon other people will be doing the same thing, using DARPA's leadership, and terrorism using that method will be common. In the entire history of the world, the U.S. government is the biggest originator of violence. The U.S. government has invaded or bombed 25 countries since the end of the 2nd world war. The U.S. has more citizens in prison than farmers. Weapons investors like Cheney and his friends and the Bush family want continuous war.
*slap* Shut up and make a bug joke.
Re:I for one (Score:3, Funny)
... look forward to attending the Reunion Concert that we never had.
Re:I for one (Score:5, Funny)
Oh...I've said too much...