Pentagon plans cyber-insect army

[Mish]

The Pentagon's defence scientists want to create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions



[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4808342.stm[/url]

Soon, the insect minions will be recruited into the millitary

[Kiechi]

Very interesting indeed.

[Cybog]

Yes, this is exactly the kind of stuff that the Pentagon advertises on the internet. Did you miss the entire 2nd half of the article that was the disclaimer by scientists saying that this was impossible?

[Mish]

Cybog, I thought the article would cheer you up

Have you completely missed this section?

WWII: Attach a bomb to a cat and drop it from a dive-bomber on to Nazi ships. The cat, hating water, will "wrangle" itself on to enemy ship's deck. In tests cats became unconscious in mid-air

WWII: Attach incendiaries to bats. Induce hibernation and drop them from planes. They wake up, fly into factories etc and blow up. Failed to wake from hibernation and fell to death

Vietnam War: Dolphins trained to tear off diving gear of Vietcong divers and drag them to interrogation. Later, syringes placed on dolphin flippers to inject carbon dioxide into divers, who explode. About 40 divers thought to have been killed

[Tone]

I read something where they were trying to use sharks to detect enemy ships without being detected first.

[Late_vamp]

yea i read that also ... military is crazy .