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Rat brain flies jet
By Robin Lettice
Published Tuesday 7th December 2004 16:01 GMT
Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane.
The "brain", grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida. It was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds.
This is just too freaky! I wonder when this technology will make it into our home appliances...
posted by Mark at
07:08
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Or better yet, our adult sex toys. Imagine the possibilities of self gratification. It would be endless.
It will make it into our home appliances when those appliances contain *cheese*. (Or perhaps bananas--my rats always loved bananas.)
I bet this story will have apocalyptical nuts of all sorts crawling out of the woodwork...
I will be happy when they come up with a memory-expansion chip to slide into my head, like in Neuromancer. (But I'll wait for version 2 or 3.)
Only--does it *have* to be rat brain cells?
I guess the alternative would be human brain cells, which is even worse. Hmm.....
I suppose in the future techie conversations may be along the lines of:
"I wanted to upgrade my processor to a cat but could only afford a dog"
or
"We've run out of space on the elephant in the server room..."
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