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May 1, 2009: Illuminated Site of the Week: "Search-And-Rescue" Missions . . . Riiight
It's mind control . . . if you call what a bug has a "mind." As if the oversized flower beetle wasn't imposing enough in its own right, it now frightens the world with a cybernetic hookup from the University of California and DARPA. Sure, they can "only" manage to make it go left, right, start, and stop, but with the potential to carry cameras and heat sensors, it's already in danger of becoming a bad "bug" pun in intelligence circles. Read all about the declassified bits in MIT's Technology Review.
-- Suggested by Pascal Godbout
Maybe it's a history lesson. Maybe it's a twisting, turning game of political maneuvering. Maybe it's both? Maybe it's neither! Unless you click this link to Footsteps of the Prophet, you'll never know. Maybe you can live with that. Maybe you can't.
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