Crazy article on humans out of control with frankensteined flies:
"The 18th-century Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani found that a spark could make a frog's leg kick. His experiments established that electricity was the hidden force nerves used to control the body. Now researchers at Yale have done Galvani one better. They can make fruit flies walk, leap or fly by shining a laser at the insects, setting off certain neurons inside them.
It's possible, at least in theory, that this method could someday be developed into a sort of animal remote control. "
WOAH! "Decapitated flies can survive a day or more without their heads, although they spend that time standing motionless. "
Yes, it's in the New York Times. So it must be true. Please be advised that Blueprnt for Revolution does not advocate the decapitation of flies to test this. Well, more than one fly, I guess.
"But when the flies were injected with ATP and then zapped with a laser for a fifth of a second, they jumped up and began flapping their wings in 60 to 80 percent of the trials.
"When we saw these headless bodies flying away, we were absolutely stunned," Dr. Miesenböck said" NO KIDDING! Mad scientists....
Posted by bluprnt at April 13, 2005 03:02 PMAnd then there's real remote controled animals:
Remote-controlled rats to sniff out explosives
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7302