Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality

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."

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DARPA is giving violent people ideas.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.