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Chinese Develop Remote Controlled Pigeons

Posted by kdawson on from the better-than-sharks-with-lasers dept.

Many readers sent us links to the story about Chinese scientists developing pigeons whose flight can be controlled remotely. The best coverage may be Wired's, both because they link to the English language version of the original Peoples Daily Online release, and because of the (disturbing) photos. The birds can be commanded to fly left, right, up, or down. Reader KDan writes, "A number of obvious uses jump out to me... the remote-controlled pigeons will finally allow us to create an efficient implementation of RFC 1149 and RFC 2549."

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  1. Re:Whats the application? What about ethics? by drgonzo59 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    not very far from what the Nazi KZ Doctors did to the people captured in the camps

    Nazi KZ Doctors???

    Pigeons are not people....

    Repeat that a couple of times, please, perhaps it will sink in.

    A lot of this un-ethical kind of stuff is going on in your backyard university lab probably, it's just not in the news. Russians tried to do the same with dolphins and other animals, Israelis do this with monkeys (see hear ). You should go tour your local pig farm and see how those animals are treated.

    Just because these are Chinese scientists, i.e. foreigners (and of course, probably commie terrorists, right?) that we are all appalled.

  2. Denial of service... by T0mWil5on · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Hitchcock-style!