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Related: About this forumPentagon's DARPA researchers learn to control rat's brain over Internet
Government mind control may not be as farfetched as it sounds: after 15 years of research, scientists have found a way to transmit information from one brain to another, thereby controlling the thoughts of its test subject.
Scientists have successfully captured the thoughts of a rat in Brazil and electronically transmitted them through the Internet to the brain of a rat in the US. The Brazilian rat had been energetically running around in a lab. When the American rat received the brain waves of its South American counterpart, it immediately began to mimic the behavior despite the thousands of miles between them, Reuters reports.
Scientists refer to the technique as a brain link. The $26 million study of brain-machine interfaces was funded by the Pentagons Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which ultimately hopes to have this technology available to humans.
http://rt.com/usa/rat-brain-darpa-pentagon-645/
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Pentagon's DARPA researchers learn to control rat's brain over Internet (Original Post)
littlemissmartypants
Mar 2013
OP
Yeah, that $26 million over several years will sure make all the difference. (nt)
Posteritatis
Mar 2013
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hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)1. Chilling.
Deeply,deeply chilling.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)2. This needs to be cut. The pentagon defense squanders money on this crap.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)3. Yeah, that $26 million over several years will sure make all the difference. (nt)
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)4. X times how many hundreds, thousands? of DOD horror experiments? several rats with metal caps
glued to their heads wired to computers are the tip of the iceburg of the massive squandering of our federal dollars.
How many other animals suffer in DOD labs to test if their pain rays really cause pain? their blinding weapons really blind and for how long? how long can an animal half roasted 'stay at the controls'? can they force a dolphin to swim in ice water and for how long?
The perdiem costs to run this one stupid nightmare experiment doesn't cover the costs of facilities or salaries.