Researchers Remotely Control Cockroaches With Electronic Backpack

[the_green_dragon]

Hmmm. I don't want to take away from this experiment's findings, but perhaps if the roaches could also be monitored somehow for their general health... I know this is going to sound pathetic, but the thought of running them to death so we can know stuff kinda makes me sad.

Lol, this post actually made me laugh out loud.

I kill cockroaches when I get the pest control guy out to spray my house, I also step on them every time I come across one.

Making them work for us is a step up.

P.S they are not animals, they are under animals

 

[chadachada123]

Saving human life. That is both what I support, what my current job entails (lifeguard), and what my future career will entail (obstetrician/gynecologist). That...is what I do.

Well you care about one form of life. It's a start!

...Alright, you win this round for making me smirk at that comeback.

Lol, this post actually made me laugh out loud.

I kill cockroaches when I get the pest control guy out to spray my house, I also step on them every time I come across one.

Making them work for us is a step up.

P.S they are not animals, they are under animals

I remember once getting in a really short argument with someone about whether mosquitoes were animals or not, totally forgetting that animals as a technical classification include both invertebrates (insects, octopi, arachnids, etc) and vertebrates (mammals, etc).

But as far as colloquialisms go, yeah, cockroaches are beneath animals to me, and comparable to mosquitoes in pure loathing.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Oh my... What other pests can we do this to? Remote controlled killer bees?

War... war never changes.
Except now we use bees.

 

[MidnightSt]

Can we stop torturing bugs like children and work on curing AIDS or something?

interestingly/funnily enough, this technology works on a principle directly opposite to torturing - afaik, it first sends an impulse that creates literally a "need" or "longing" to go somewhere (basically "i feel i should turn left/right"), and if the bug does that, it then stimulates its pleasure centers, so the bug feels a wave of good and happy feelings after obeying.