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DARPA Creates Remote Controlled Insects
EmagGeek writes "Attempts by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create cybernetic insects (hybrids of biological and electronic 'bugs') have yielded ultra-low power radios to control the bugs' flight and a method of powering those circuits by harvesting energy, according to research that will be reported this week at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. 'Electrodes and a control chip are inserted into a moth during its pupal stage. When the moth emerges the electrodes stimulate its muscles to control its flight. I expect a run on bug zappers any day."
If you sign up now you won't get hive duty and can assist as a pollinator.
Queue avalanche of "debugging" jokes in 4... 3... 2...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
But in QA they decided they were to buggy.
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Can I get one of these things to take my lazy butt down to the gym in the morning?
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I saw a bugged cockroach in Fifth Element too. :)
I hope one day they will be able to reconstruct a person from fragment DNA too
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... to the act of filing a "Bug Report".
"What did the bugs report today?"
"Don't ask me, it was filed in the bug report."
"Have the bugs reported?"
"Not yet, but they'll be buzzing the tower in a few minutes."
"I do not avoid women, Mandrake . . . but I do deny them my essence." - Gen. Ripper
At mere $3,000,000 per bug our government will create swarms of moths to charge into the windshields of Taliban truckers and irk the crap out of them.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
ZOMG, do they run Linux?!
The problem is she would probably clone me from a fragment of my DNA and leave you.
. . . didn't he have swarms of 'dem critters? Sicked 'em on the Ancient Egyptians, and stuff. Since Moses was a meticulous man, he probably kept the blueprints for his remote controlled insects in a safe place. All we need to do is find the Ark of the Covenant; the plans are probably in there.
Or have the patents belonging to biblical leaders expired already?
And if you need God to power the insects, that might be a bit of a problem. Only CERN has that much energy at their disposal.
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This was in an episode of the 1960s spy comedy "Get Smart", where Max was shown their new, multimillion-dollar insect microphone, and he destroyed it by swatting it with a newspaper. Repeated in the 2008 movie when The Rock kills the bug with his hand.
I could never do that research in my house. "Look honey, this is my new remote controlled..." MEOW! *swat* *nom nom nom*
Even billions of dollars in US military funding can't keep a moth from getting laid.
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I remember something similar sounding in Time Crisis 4, which incase anyone was wondering is the worst time crisis ive ever seen.
I know you arent, but I dont care.
Its more likely than you think. ;)