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Scientists Create Remote-Controlled Flies (Yale research scientists used lasers)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/8/05 | AP

Posted on 04/08/2005 10:11:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 04/08/2005 10:11:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Those are some enlightened flies.


2 posted on 04/08/2005 10:23:07 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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Those are some enlightened flies.

Come over here so I can smack you.

3 posted on 04/08/2005 10:24:40 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: NormsRevenge

...good to see they got headless bugs to fly.


4 posted on 04/08/2005 10:25:53 PM PDT by Termite_Commander (Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
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To: NormsRevenge

Fire flies


5 posted on 04/08/2005 10:26:19 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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Fly, fly away, waspish one!


6 posted on 04/08/2005 10:28:05 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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Even headless flies took flight

OMG! It even works on liberals.

7 posted on 04/08/2005 10:53:20 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Life is always the Right choice)
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To: NormsRevenge

There goes free will...


Wait until liberals will be shining lasers at us, and we will obediently fill in the little bubble on the ballots next to Hillary's name.


8 posted on 04/08/2005 11:17:12 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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Amazing PING


9 posted on 04/08/2005 11:17:40 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: NormsRevenge
Hello? Pentagon?....Yes...who in the name of god gave you permission to use my mind control device!!!! you ignorant buffoons!!!
10 posted on 04/08/2005 11:19:35 PM PDT by MetalHeadConservative35 (Proud Pilot Of The Inner Sphere)
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[Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.]
[Gero Miesenbock, associate professor of cell biology at Yale, said if the process could be duplicated on mice, researchers might be able to better understand the cellular activity that leads to certain behavior.]


That's a pretty big "if".

Flies are not mice.


11 posted on 04/08/2005 11:46:38 PM PDT by spinestein
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Big Deal. Give me a cattle prod and I can make anyone jump and flap their arms, Why, I could rule the world!


12 posted on 04/09/2005 12:41:01 AM PDT by Hell to pay
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Yeah okay doc, keep screwing with mother nature.


13 posted on 04/09/2005 1:10:19 PM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: FairOpinion

looks like a coherent experimental result.

['Civ accepts the cascade of flowers from the delighted crowd]


15 posted on 04/09/2005 8:46:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Deviance or rebellion without consequences is conformity.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The potential military applications are mind boggling.


16 posted on 04/11/2005 2:33:00 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Hillary!TM wants one in every voting booth...
17 posted on 04/11/2005 2:39:33 PM PDT by null and void (innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Fruit flies...Those are the gay flies right?


18 posted on 04/11/2005 2:51:02 PM PDT by Imaverygooddriver (ALL YOU BASE ARE BELONG TO US)
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To: NormsRevenge

The libs have remote control voters.


19 posted on 04/11/2005 3:01:15 PM PDT by The Raven (Liberalism is a verifiable weapon of mass destruction)
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Recovering_Democrat posited this idea as a possible spy weapon on a thread here at FR just days ago!!
20 posted on 04/11/2005 4:06:54 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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