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Rat Brains Fly Planes
An anonymous reader writes "According to The Age newspaper, scientists at the University of Florida have created neural cell cultures capable of flying an airplane using rat neurons. No actual planes are involved (yet), but the disassembled bits of rodent are already capable of level flight when hooked up to a simulator of an F-22."
A rat that can smart-bomb your rat-trap.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
Given this news, I can only imagine what the next round of layoffs at American Airlines will bring...
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
... already has a mouse. Next story?
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
What do you know - it was October last year. Thought my memory of the article was rather too fuzzy to be from just two months ago. Fourteen months it is then.
Wait, I just thought of something - since duplicate stories are "dupes", this is the proof we've always wanted that Slashdot's main page really is full of tripe!
...a culture of rat brain cells which can detect year-old dupes on /. Now that would be both news _and_ considerable progress over the current method, which is most likely a culture of Cowboy Neal's brain cells in dire need of a vacation, a blonde and a bottle of diet Coke.
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
Ultra-intelligent spam filters. //yay!
Hrm... You've given me an idea for an expiriment. I'll put a keyboard in a mouse cage with a full view of my monitor:
If he jumps on the delete key and deletes a spam message, he'll get a peice of cheese.
If he deletes a legitimate peice of email, he will get an electric shock.
If he hits ctrl+alt+del, I'll be using him as tech support.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
But would one want to own a quasi-intelligent PDA that runs off rat neurons?
You're asking the wrong question.
The real question is: Would anyone not want to own a quasi-intelligent PDA that runs off rat neurons?
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
It's walking away from a landing thats the goal.
Or in this case, carried off in your petri dish.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Since the original posting the rat has got pretty old.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
In other news...
Slashdot has opensourced a way to use pidgeon brains to run news portals.