Spy Sharks
By Ryan Oakley. Filed in animals, army |
Since DARPA wasn’t happy with just creating a Big Dog Robot, they have now moved on to remote controlling sharks. They have “created a neural probe that can manipulate a shark’s brain signals or decode them. More controversially, the Pentagon hopes to use remote-controlled sharks as spies.”
This isn’t the first batch of remote control animals. As usual, rats got in on the action first. And these are by no means the first animals used in a military conflict. From Passenger Pigeons to the Dolphin Mine Sweepers currently working the Persian Gulf, we have often used the beasts to do our dirty work.
Soon we’ll be living a world where every animal could be a spy. I’m just surprised that birds haven’t been recruited, though they probably have and we haven’t heard about it. All I really know is that my cat is up to something. You’ll see. She is. Seriously. Why else would she talk to me through the radio?
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (bad science fiction), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap. He's a bit of a dick.
Saturday, March 4th 2006 at 8:33 pm |
Kitty told me the other day, after a night of boozing that she had once been apart of Al Qaida until she escaped and was hired as a CIA operative. The secret lives our cats live!
Monday, March 6th 2006 at 7:31 pm |
Mine has a friend named Janet who she drinks martinis with. No one has ever seen this Janet but I suspect she is very real.