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Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel
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#12A related article and the language used to describe the creature matches
> Madagascar hissing cockroach has been used in various applications as a powerful platform
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#13From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh... Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?
It's much easier to plug into something perfected by millions of years of selective pressure.
It really depends on a person's moral qualms and how deeply they are felt.
For instance, different people put different amounts of effort in when a rogue house fly enters a room. Some kill, some catch and release.
Which is easier? It really depends on the person and what they are willing to tolerate.
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#14Looking at the severed parts, it doesn't seem like they'll live long. I wonder how long they'd survive after something like that. It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077
Roach Ex. My exoskeleton is augmented.
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#15From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh... Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?
No more beer, wine, bread, or yogurt for you.
No mushrooms, no meat, and no vegetables.
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#16Bill Gates at it again!!! Damn you Bill Gates, damn yoooooouuu...!
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#17Looking at the severed parts, it doesn't seem like they'll live long. I wonder how long they'd survive after something like that. It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077
I am unsure they really care how long it lasts especially when you create something like this. As long it carries out it mission for a minute of two. Send it to some underwater fibre optic cable and use it as a depth charge to blow it up. No more requirements for anchors.
Not sure the cockroach cyborg will survive such pressures, already surprised it can survive the few feet of water.
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#18Oh god, you can imagine how governments are going to look at this and freak out about espionage. Or worse, use this tech for espionage!!
If you knew Russian you could enjoy the hysterics their propaganda were stoking in 2022-23 about alleged "combat mosquitos" the Ukrainians had developed. According to the propaganda the mosquitos were specifically able to target Russians based on DNA (interesting that according to the same propaganda Russians and Ukrainians are the same people - how poor mosquitos were supposed to distinguish between Russians and Ukrainians the propaganda didn't specify though)
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#19Oh god, you can imagine how governments are going to look at this and freak out about espionage. Or worse, use this tech for espionage!!
Reminds me of the scene in The Fifth Element where Tricky is piloting a spy cockroach with a hilariously huge transmitter on it's back...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJxMpTeEf8Q
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#20From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh... Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?
No more beer, wine, bread, or yogurt for you. No mushrooms, no meat, and no vegetables.
This argument is called reductio ad absurdum. It’s often used by people like you who want to prevent others from trying to be better.