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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Re:I for one

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

>> Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles Become Reality
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> welcome our new remote control beetle overlords!

New? Humans have long since mastered controlling other humans with memes -- ideas specialized in creating an internal mental model of reality that drives real-world activity that boosts the spread of the meme.

You didn't think that God actually exists, or that single-payer, socialized medicine, was actually good, right?

I humbly await a downmod driven by the meme defense mechanism inside your brain. By downmodding me, you think you are properly slapping me according to your internal worldview, but you're actually simultaneously attempting to hide criticism of your meme as well as buttress, via defense, your emotional involvement in said meme, which is to say, the internal worldview.

So I humbly await the actual, physical activity to be generated by your body to defend your meme.