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Rat Brains Fly F-22 Raptors
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| December 7th, 2004
| Robin Lettice
Posted on 12/20/2004 8:03:28 PM PST by GravityFree
Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane.
Scientists at the university of Florida taught the 'brain', which was grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a rat embryo, to pilot an F-22 jet simulator. It was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds.
TWO RELATED LINKS:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1119_041119_brain_petri_dish.html#main
http://www.bme.ufl.edu:16080/research/projects/detailproject.php?RP_id=5
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.com ...
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KEYWORDS: flightsimulation; futurewarfare; neuralnetworks; research; unmannedvehicles
Give all the credit to Freeper "zencat" for bringing this to my attention.I once thought my two grandmothers lived through tremendous change from 1900-1990s. If this is what lies just over the horizon I they saw only the leading edge.
To: GravityFree
I'm sorry, I thought this was a story about democrats.
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:04:42 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservat)
To: DoughtyOne
Rat Brains would make a cool screen name, though.
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:07:14 PM PST
by
Luddite Patent Counsel
("No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the Legislature is in session.")
Didn't an F-22 just crash today?
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:07:31 PM PST
by
oolatec
To: Luddite Patent Counsel
'Rats have brains? Who knew?
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:08:22 PM PST
by
null and void
(I refuse to live my life as if someone, somewhere will be offended if I laugh...)
To: oolatec
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:09:30 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(Kerry surrendered Florida faster than he surrendered the Mekong Delta)
To: Luddite Patent Counsel
Rat Brains, the evidence is missing...
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:11:57 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservat)
To: GravityFree
When you see how few neurons it takes to do fairly sophisticated things, you wonder what all of ours are doing. I'll bet we could make a Democrat with fewer neurons than a housefly, and it could still be taught to hate Bush.
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:12:38 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
(Want some wood?)
To: GravityFree
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:14:05 PM PST
by
xlib
To: GravityFree
Not to toot my own horn, but...
I thought of doing this with birds many years ago. They have a good sense of direction, they are more expendable, and they can already fly, so wouldn't this be better than rats? I can add this to the list of ideas people have stolen from me over the years ("Who Wants to be a Super-Millionaire?", Animal Face-Off, the Pizza Hut "4 For All" pizza, etc.) I'm going to start looking for electronic bugs in my house, so have a good night, everyone!
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:15:35 PM PST
by
Captainpaintball
(LINE THE BORDERS WITH NUCLEAR WASTE!!!)
To: GravityFree
All ready done
BRAIN DEAD (director/writer: Adam Simon; screenwriter: from a Charles Beaumont story; cinematographer: Ron Schmidt; editor: Carol Oblath; cast: Bill Pullman (Dr. Rex Martin), Bill Paxton (Jim Reston), Patricia Charbonneau (Dana Martin), Bud Cort (Jack Halsey), George Kennedy (Vance), Nicholas Pryor (Conklin/Ramsen), David Sinaiko (Berkovitch); Runtime: 85; Concorde Pictures; 1990)
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:17:26 PM PST
by
506trooper
(There is no such thing as too much ammo or fuel on board.........unless you're on fire)
To: Nick Danger
neurons working on: Breast, sex, legs, breast, sex, legs, beer, breast, legs, sex, tequila - oh yes boss.
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posted on
12/20/2004 8:19:41 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ. De Opresso Liber.)
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