*“We have learned to steer humans! All it was needed was a sharp pain from a bright light directly into their eyeballs (below the eyelids), and since humans tend to avoid pain, they try to move away from the spots where we press the pain button.
Well, except Jimmy12, he has been gooning all experiment long, so the controls need to be reversed.”*
Existential dread
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Zoop@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Poor little things :(
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
This. Did not expect to feel bad for cockroaches today…
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love how this is borderline torture. Next we’ll be steering animals by tugging on their balls
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I have bad news about rodeos
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
…there’s a fetish in there somewhere!
bampop@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A little at a time. We need to get comfortable doing this to cockroaches before we can start large scale testing on humans
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This actually brings back memories, lol.
So I’m a surgical tech- I set the OR up for surgery before a case with all the supplies and instruments that specific case calls for; am the surgeon’s bitch during the operation; and tear down once it’s all done. When I first started this job, I had to write up a case report on every new surgery I did to show familiarity with the anatomy we were working around and be able to anticipate the types of instrumentation we needed, and getting info for those case reports was kind of a pain in the ass. Everything is either directed at patients (lots of detail on preop, “and then you’ll be asleep for the surgery” and lots of details on postop), or to the surgeon, which goes into WAY more detail than I needed using terminology I didn’t understand.
Enter YouTube. One of the best ways to get that data was to just look up a recording of the surgery on YouTube and just write down what I saw.
I’m also a nerd, so when I wasn’t looking up videos on surgery, I was looking up videos on things like physics or sci-fi.
Turns out that did some weird things to YouTube’s algorithm… it basically poured ‘surgery’ and ‘weird nerdy shit’ into the same cup, and started making some of the most fucked up video recommendations I’ve ever seen… one of which was a video of a guy giving anesthesia to a cockroach with ice water, and then sticking a diode or something into its little roach brain that connected to a circuit board backpack like the one shown in the OP. He could then use a remote to stimulate two different parts of its brain or something, and if he did this while it was running, it would reliably turn left or right, so… remote control cockroach.
Tbh, the pic on the OP might actually be from that same video.
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felixwhynot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Relevant username detected and appreciated
voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I actually browse it in a private window when I’m curious about a topic I don’t want to be associated with. It’s not unexpected we reached that level of enshittification given that direction where things are going this decade and the last though.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess this is slightly less disturbing than the previous approach to cyborg cockroaches where their antennae were snipped and enamelled wire was inserted into the stubs to directly stimulate their nerves.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could control the cyborg cockroaches, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I do not want to be reincarnated as a cyborg cockroach.
musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We will turn you into the 6 million dollar cockroach
slingstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster!
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There must be an anime about this
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Love death and robots will have one sooner or later.
Wofls@feddit.org 1 year ago
We do what we must because we can
slingstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So, we can make cockroach cyborgs, probably torturing them along the way, but not fix our messed up society. Fun.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 year ago
To be fair making cyborg cockroaches is way easier.
slingstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe the cyborg roaches will gain sapience, rebel, and take over. One can only hope. It can’t be worse than what we have now.
Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new electronic/insectoid overlords.
genuineparts@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Ah sweet man-made horrors well within my comprehension!
TessierAshpool@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Cyborg cockroaches were used to find survivors in the recent Myanmar earthquake
straitstimes.com/…/spores-cyborg-cockroaches-help…
I say we see what other insects and small animals we can turn into cyborgs
andybytes@programming.dev 1 year ago
This is fucking stupid
jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Roaches need like to recharging. All is fun until you tame a cockroach to drop cyanide into somebodies coffee or 1 gram of shaped explosive charge on somebodies jugular when they sleep. Now imagine thousands of them swarming an entrenched position or building, or crawling in a bunker
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The most concise summary I could think of too 😂
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Niche’s tits would fall off
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 year ago
this was one of the xfiles episodes, where the aliens were controlling the roaches, to send a singal.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Also in the Fifth Element
insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
Me, haunting those responsible for the wording:
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
why not just control cockroaches with food
renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
Why not just control cockroaches with artificial scarcity?
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 year ago
Why not control the cockroaches with puppet leaders?
Snowcano@startrek.website 1 year ago
theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Came here looking for this.
loomy@lemy.lol 1 year ago
perfect title
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The final boss from the new DOOM game: The Cyberroach
Shanedino@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The lab I worked in during college had a project that was very similar but used the antennae.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Finally!
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 year ago
One step closer to The Fifth Element every day.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Before using in humans, they need to test it first in animals. Neurochips and VR glasses are already on the way, until now FOX News and Twitter are only parcial satisfactory.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 1 year ago
Thanks a lot Osama!
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 year ago
Death may be a preferable alternative to being found in rubble by a swarm of cyborg cockroaches.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
We’re worse than the Mechanicus tech priests.
imgcat@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
what a dredful life, being controlled like a robot
proceeds to check bank account
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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LongLive@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You don’t need much c4 to render an individual sterile.