Unlea****ng the Bugs of War
Friday, Apr. 18, 2008 By MARK THOMPSON/WA****NGTON
Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (HI-MEMS)
So what's hot at DARPA right now? Bugs. The creepy, crawly flying
kind. The Agency's Microsystems Technology Office is hard at work on
HI-MEMS (Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical System), raising real
insects filled with electronic circuitry, which could be guided using
GPS technology to specific targets via electrical impulses sent to
their muscles. These half-bug, half-chip creations =97 DARPA calls them
"insect cyborgs" =97 would be ideal for surveillance missions, the
agency says in a brief description on its website.
Scientist Amit Lal and his team insert mechanical components into baby
bugs during "the caterpillar and the pupae stages," which would then
allow the adult bugs to be deployed to do the Pentagon's bidding. "The
HI-MEMS program is aimed at developing
tightly coupled machine-insect interfaces
by placing micro-mechanical systems inside the insects during the
early stages of metamorphosis," DARPA says. "Since a majority of the
tissue development in insects occurs in the later stages of
metamorphosis, the renewed tissue growth around the MEMS will tend to
heal, and form a reliable and stable tissue-machine interface." Such
bugs "could carry one or more sensors, such as a microphone or a gas
sensor, to relay back information gathered from the target
destination."
DARPA declined TIME's request to interview Dr. Lal about his program
and the progress he is making in producing the bugs. The agency added
that there is no timetable for turning backyard pests into battlefield
assets. But in a written statement, spokeswoman Jan Walker said that
"living, adult-stage insects have emerged with the embedded systems
intact." Presumably, enemy arsenals will soon be well-stocked with
Raid.
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Revelation 9
3And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given
power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4They were told not to harm
the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who
did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5They were not given
power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the
agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it
strikes a man. 6During those days men will seek death, but will not
find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads
they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled
human faces. 8Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were
like lions' teeth. 9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron,
and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses
and chariots ru****ng into battle. 10They had tails and stings like
scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for
five months.
End times:http://mart1963.tripod.com/docs/04-UNHOLY3.html
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