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Scientists remotely control pigeons

Posted February 27, 2007 9:09 AM

From MSNBC.com: Science:

BEIJING - Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird's flight, state media said. Xinhua News Agency said the scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro electrodes to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down.

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TooMuch
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Re: Scientists remotely control pigeons

02/28/2007 8:27 AM

Looks like the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic is bound to have a new scary twist... perhaps a hybrid-crossover hit with The Birdman of Alcatraz!
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Re: Scientists remotely control pigeons

02/28/2007 10:59 AM

Daphne du Maurier wouldn't like it.
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Re: Scientists remotely control pigeons

02/28/2007 9:42 PM

Now all they have to do is load it with weapons

and remotely operate its trap door

when it runs out of ammo we can drop poo on them

camouflage not needed
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Re: Scientists remotely control pigeons

02/28/2007 10:07 PM

guest, my thoughts exactly!

now there is another reason to shoot the birds down - the biological ones!

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Re: Scientists remotely control pigeons

03/01/2007 12:23 AM

latest news

BIN lardin having stolen the remote

devices has trained pidgeons to

become suicide bombers

another reason to shoot the birds down

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