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Daier Mune
post Feb 8 2008, 10:41 PM
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saw this on Warren Ellis's website, thought the SR community would get a kick out of it, especialy those of you who have read the chapter on 'biodrones' in Augmentation.

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Cornell University researchers have succeeded in implanting electronic circuit probes into tobacco hornworms as early pupae. The hornworms pass through the chrysalis stage to mature into long-lived moths whose muscles can be controlled with the implanted electronics.


http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080...org-insect.html
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Dashifen
post Feb 8 2008, 10:45 PM
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That's awesome.
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DocTaotsu
post Feb 8 2008, 11:29 PM
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In other news...

THE GOVERNMENT IS MAKING ME TYPE THIS.

Er... sorry.
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Fix-it
post Feb 9 2008, 02:00 AM
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they've been doing this to live cockroaches for some time now.
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