It is fun to imagine paleontologists, some millions of years from now, whatever species they will be themselves, finding a fossil of this cockroach and trying to explain it. One thing are humans having hip joint implants, but "why on Earth would they make a diving suite for a cockroach?!"
Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel
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#22This is the kind of Science I'd expect a 12 year old boy to come up with given unlimited funding.
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#23> ... oxygen generation mechanism of diving suit for cyborg cockroaches
An actual quote from a Nature article
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#24From 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?
I can picture an alien picking me up and making horrible experiments on my body alright, so I understand your worry...
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding
I think the OP was just highlighting that we do this all the time.
I personally feel like cyborg control goes a step beyond selective breeding and it makes me feel icky too. But we need to talk about what the difference is.
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#26Oh 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 Ukr…
I can't believe Russia even took that to the UN. Insane.
https://global.espreso.tv/mosquitoes-vs-moscowitoes-reznikov...
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#27Looking 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.
Up in Canada, we had RoboRoach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRoach
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#28The authors of the article deserve to get appropriate controllers inserted right up into their assholes, so they enjoy the operational range it gives to their fucking selves.
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#29It is fun to imagine paleontologists, some millions of years from now, whatever species they will be themselves, finding a fossil of this cockroach and trying to explain it. One thing are humans having hip joint implants, but "why on Earth would they make a diving suite for a cockroach?!"
They’d clearly decide that the cockroach was worshipped.
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#30From 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?
Very interesting research but can’t help but /feel/ this is abominable