Aerothorn on 5/3/2006 at 01:35
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1745605.html?menu=) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1745605.html?menu=
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Engineers funded by the US military have created a neural implant designed to enable a shark's brain signals to be manipulated remotely.
Just thought I'd throw this into the ring here (don't think it was posted already)...I find it pretty disturbing myself.
liquidfear on 5/3/2006 at 01:41
lolz, "The page cannot be displayed". fix plz.
But from what I can tell from your summary, it does sound pretty spooky. I want to know the science behind the technology of how they could control a sharks brain.
fett on 5/3/2006 at 05:19
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aguywhoplaysthief on 5/3/2006 at 06:04
I don't see what the big deal is - we had trained killer dolphins during the Cold War.
Aerothorn on 5/3/2006 at 06:19
Link fixed.
And in reply to aguy's post,
A. I think that is somewhat messed up too, and
B. There is a difference between training and directly controlling. Trained dolphins can still, for instance, get food, wheras remote-controlled sharks could just be taken control of till they starved to death.
Plus, if the natural progession here is to remote control humans. Obviously that's far more complex then remote-control sharks...but then again, this was seen as science fiction just a little while ago.
Gingerbread Man on 5/3/2006 at 06:24
It's still retarded and a huge waste of time and money. Whatever you could accomplish with this sort of thing, you could do ten times more with existing tech. The point is that, no matter how savvy and technologically competent people seem to be, they will always throw money at something like telekinesis or remote viewing or some other ridiculous fantasy.
Why haven't they put lasers on the sharks?
omfg we can steer sharks with phantom odours.
WELL DONE EINSTEIN. That's how sharks fucking steer. Now who's gonna lay the chemical trail, and who's gonna debrief the sharks when they return with tiny brains full of information? Or are there just cameras tied to their noses? And how is this any more sophisticated than satellite imagery or infra-red or sonar or WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU IDIOTS SPENDING MONEY ON
aguywhoplaysthief on 5/3/2006 at 06:28
Espionage is one of the more effective ways to "win" shit, so I think that using some of nature's creations to do that is probably a reasonable thing to do - although it may be a little hard to say since we don't have any details on the program. I don't have any idea what it costs to do this research, or those to carry the results out, but I'm sure organic things have some advantages that thousands of pounds of metal don't.
Gingerbread Man on 5/3/2006 at 06:29
Nigga, please. It's retarded, and you know it.
Agent Monkeysee on 5/3/2006 at 08:31
Quote Posted by aguywhoplaysthief
Espionage is one of the more effective ways to "win" shit, so I think that using some of nature's creations to do that is probably a reasonable thing to do - although it may be a little hard to say since we don't have any details on the program.
What kind of crazy-ass terrorist camp lets in sharks?
On second thought I support this research on the off-chance that such a camp exists. If there's a terrorist cell that's badass enough to employ sharks I'd rather we have the drop on it.
