"Brain and brain! What is Brain?!"
"Brain and brain! What is Brain?!"
Not Borg. Berserker (Fred Saberhagen).
Classic shared universe series of stories by lots of the best writers around.
quick, learn and remember the phrase "I am goodlife!"
Abbe Normal.
It only takes 25,000 neurons to fly a plane? That explains most pilot's egos - they have a couple hundred million neurons left to spare for that.
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Damn!
We have here a terrorist rat cell brain -- it can fly the plane but can't take off or land it. Look out NYC.
I thought of something similar, years ago.
Only I envisioned using an ant colony.
Data from a mechanical device outside the colony, would be transmitted to the colony via light flashes or vibrations or whatever kind of "media" the ants like to "read"--then if they react properly, they would be rewarded--if not, punished!
Their reaction would be monitored by photo cells, which would send signals to the mechanical arm.
I also thought of attempting to communicate with ants by using a similar set up--but instead of feeding the information to and from a mechanical arm, I owuld feed it ot a computer in instead.
The computer would then become a neo-cortex for the entire ant colony.
That is, the ants would supply the "emotion" (functioning as the computer's limbic system, and the computer would function as the neo-cortex).
The user (me) would then type messages to the ants, which they would learn to read.
Am I kidding? Well, half kidding.
(Hey Art Bell--I'm available cheap for an interview!)
"That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis.
So THATS how the Kerry campaign is being run!
This sounds like another US Airways cost cutting measure.
I have known pilots with a similar personality.
The origins of the Shadows perhaps?
BFD, the airforce is full of pilots that fly planes with no brains at all.
When in high PRF, probably assumes the form of a turgid penis wearing a Breitling Chronomat.
OK, that's spooky. ...just, plain, spooky.