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Thursday, March 2, 2006

“You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat”

Posted by on March 2 at 9:56 AM

Interesting:

PARIS, March 1, 2006 (AFP) - The Pentagon is funding research into neural implants with the ultimate hope of turning sharks into “stealth spies” capable of gliding undetected through the ocean, the British weekly New Scientist says.

The research builds on experimental work to control animals by implanting tiny electrodes in their brain, which are then stimulated to induce a behavioural response.

“The Pentagon hopes to exploit sharks’ natural ability to glide quietly through the water, sense delicate electrical gradients and follow chemical trails,” says the report, carried in next Saturday’s New Scientist.

Or, we could just turn our national defense over to Aquaman. I hear he has some pull with the undersea creatures.

(Via Raw Story.)


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I am all for Aquaman, if played by Vinnie Chase.

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