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You don't need much c4 to render an individual sterile.
"We have learned to steer humans! All it was needed was a sharp pain from a bright light directly into their eyeballs (below the eyelids), and since humans tend to avoid pain, they try to move away from the spots where we press the pain button.
Well, except Jimmy12, he has been gooning all experiment long, so the controls need to be reversed."
Poor little things :(
This. Did not expect to feel bad for cockroaches today...
I love how this is borderline torture. Next we'll be steering animals by tugging on their balls
I have bad news about rodeos
...there's a fetish in there somewhere!
A little at a time. We need to get comfortable doing this to cockroaches before we can start large scale testing on humans
I guess this is slightly less disturbing than the previous approach to cyborg cockroaches where their antennae were snipped and enamelled wire was inserted into the stubs to directly stimulate their nerves.
I do not want to be reincarnated as a cyborg cockroach.
We will turn you into the 6 million dollar cockroach
We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster!
There must be an anime about this
Love death and robots will have one sooner or later.
We do what we must because we can
Ah sweet man-made horrors well within my comprehension!
So, we can make cockroach cyborgs, probably torturing them along the way, but not fix our messed up society. Fun.
To be fair making cyborg cockroaches is way easier.
Maybe the cyborg roaches will gain sapience, rebel, and take over. One can only hope. It can't be worse than what we have now.
Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new electronic/insectoid overlords.
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could control the cyborg cockroaches, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Cyborg cockroaches were used to find survivors in the recent Myanmar earthquake
I say we see what other insects and small animals we can turn into cyborgs
Nietzsche's tits would fall off
why not just control cockroaches with food
Why not just control cockroaches with artificial scarcity?
Why not control the cockroaches with puppet leaders?
Me, haunting those responsible for the wording:
not a cyborg.
The final boss from the new DOOM game: The Cyberroach
this was one of the xfiles episodes, where the aliens were controlling the roaches, to send a singal.
Also in the Fifth Element
Finally!
The lab I worked in during college had a project that was very similar but used the antennae.
Death may be a preferable alternative to being found in rubble by a swarm of cyborg cockroaches.
One step closer to The Fifth Element every day.
We're worse than the Mechanicus tech priests.
Thanks a lot Osama!