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Backyard Brains Shows You How to Remote Control a Cockroach (Video)
This is our second video starring Backyard Brains (Motto: "Neuroscience for Everyone!"). The first one was pretty lab-oriented, with a twitching roach leg here and there. This one has more roaches, with most of them crawling on command. Will the DoD see this and decide to make cockroach soldiers? Or roboroach bomb detectors and defusers? Or cockroach drone pilots? Anything's possible these days. But meanwhile, relax and enjoy learning about roboroaches and watching how, with little circuit boards on their little backs, they scurry hither and yon under control of their human masters. WARNING: Excessively squeamish people should not watch this video, but should stick to the transcript.
I'm going to have to add more obviousness to my sarcastic posts, I take it?
"Germans are monsters that enjoy doing horrible things to humans"
How about this one? Nazis were people, like people anywhere, who with proper indoctrination, can be conditioned to do almost anything. And, what about the Jews? An entire people basically submitted. How do you explain that? More conditioning, albeit from a different source.
I think it is safer to say that we still don't understand the human psyche, and that there are still a lot of surprises in store. Nazis were just as human as any of us, if less humane.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br