Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird's flight, state media said....
The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon's brain according to electronic signals sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring natural signals generated by the brain, Xinhua quoted chief scientist Su Xuecheng as saying.
(CBS/AP)
2.28.2007
I was going to mention this, but it's already a really gloomy morning so I won't
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That's really creepy. But it makes me wonder if that's why someone would play ice hockey on the wrong side of the ice - just a little programming error.
Maybe the Chinese are gonna start a pigeon hockey league. (I don't want to combine "programming error" and cyborg birds in the same thought.)
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