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?
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sdit says:
March 4, 2006 at 8:33 pm (UTC -5 )
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!
Grumpy Owl says:
March 6, 2006 at 7:31 pm (UTC -5 )
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.
Big Dog « The Grumpy Owl says:
February 2, 2008 at 1:36 am (UTC -5 )
[...] Owl, Patrick, submitted this video of DARPA’s Big Dog. I’d read about the contraption a couple of years ago but this is the first time I’ve seen it in [...]