Tinfoil Tuesday: Remote control bees that drink human tears
May 8th, 2012
Last February we reported that DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been funding research for the next generation of technological tyranny, insect-sized unmanned aerial drones called “Micro Aerial Vehicles” (MAV). And we speculated that swarms of arsenic armed insect-sized micro drones were on their way. But we could not have imagined where this technology was actually going. Now it seems when the U.S. Military wants to play God they outsource their research facilities in Israel.
In Haifa, Israel there’s an unusual aeronautics laboratory that doesn’t contain a single piece of airplane equipment. Instead it’s full of aquariums swarming with flies, grasshoppers, beetles, dragonflies and bees. There a pair of scientists from Technion Institute of Technology, together with researchers from Tel Aviv University, and funded by the U.S. Military they are conducting experiments designed to literally take control of the flight of existing insects. Having trouble reverse engineering the flight of insects? No problem. Just hijack 300 million years of evolution.
Daniel Weihs is the pioneer reportedly leading this research on both insects and animals, but he’s not prepared to divulge their findings, but here’s what we know. The insects are placed in flight simulator, which is essentially a wind tunnel, as two high speed cameras record their flight. In addition electrodes are inserted into each muscle group to record the electrical signals of every miniscule movement.
Weihs says, “We put together a map that says, for instance, that the signal A implanted in muscle B causes the insect to turn to the right. So I can prepare a program with my own orders for such an insect.” Basically they record the electrical signals in the insects muscles, translate them into an editable code, and then feed the code back though the system, sending new electrical signals into the insect and triggering new movements. Researchers have already gained control of the insects when they are connected to the simulator. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out the remote controls.
Is that not the creepiest thing you’ve ever heard? So when the swarm of micro drones comes they are going to be indistinguishable from actual bugs, because they are actual bugs. Oh but it gets creepier.
John Ascher at the American Museum of Natural History recently discovered the species of bee, Losioglossum Gotham, while walking through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. The bee drinks human tears. Ashcer says, “They use humans as a salt lick.” Researchers in Thailand already familiar with the species wrote in their study, “Bees That Drink Human Tears,” “On landing, automatic blinking with the eye often prevented the bee from getting a firm hold.. If so, the bee persistently tried again and again until it was successful.” A study of the bees published in the Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society reads “Once a bee had settled and more were approaching, these tended to settle near each other in a row. Closing the eye did not necessarily dislodge bees but some continued to suck at the slit. They were even able to find and settle at closed eyes.”
It sounds to me like very soon these little critters will be flying around the world on the government dime collecting retina scans of virtually everyone, or perhaps, if they can be made to recognize the retinas of particular targets, delivering a lethal injection.
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