Furtherman
02-27-2007, 09:28 AM
<p>BOMBS!!!</p><p>This morning as I walked through Times Square to work the pigeons that usually inhabit the main traffic island were not having their usual feeding frenzy, but instead were flying and swooping around in circles. Myself and some others actually had to duck. I could hear them wooshing by my head. </p><p>Then I see this story:</p><div class="KonaBody"><span><p>BEIJING (AP) - Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird's flight, state media said. </p><p>Xinhua News Agency said the scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at Shandong University of Science and Technology in eastern China used the micro electrodes to command the bird to fly right or left, and up or down. </p><p>The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon's brain according to electronic signals sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring natural signals generated by the brain, Xinhua quoted chief scientist Su Xuecheng as saying. </p><p>It was the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world, said Su, who conducted a similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.</p><!-- Subject: China Pigeon Control --></span></div><div class="KonaBody"><span></span></div><div class="KonaBody"><span>So the Chinese can control pigeons and mice. When we're at war with them - they'll be able to place little explosives on them and set them loose in our city!!!</span></div><div class="KonaBody"><span></span></div><div class="KonaBody"><span>You know, worse case scenario.</span></div><div class="KonaBody"><span></span></div><div class="KonaBody"><span></span></div><div class="KonaBody"><span><img src="http://www.250505.com/wp-content/pigeon.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="400" align="left" /></span></div>