MSNBC Chinese succeed in implanting brain electrodes to influence flight

[Guest guest]

>Scientists remotely control pigeons

>Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting

>electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely

>control the bird's flight, state media said.

>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17359821/

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Scientists remotely control pigeons

Chinese succeed in implanting brain electrodes to influence flight

The Associated Press

Updated: 4:53 a.m. AKT Feb 27, 2007

 

BEIJING - Chinese scientists have succeeded in

implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to

remotely control the bird's flight, state media

said.

 

Xinhua News Agency said the scientists at the

Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at

Shandong University of Science and Technology in

eastern China used the micro electrodes to

command the bird to fly right or left, and up or

down.

 

The implants stimulated different areas of the

pigeon's brain according to electronic signals

sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring

natural signals generated by the brain, Xinhua

quoted chief scientist Su Xuecheng as saying.

 

It was the first such successful experiment on a

pigeon in the world, said Su, who conducted a

similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.

 

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[Guest guest]

This is ridiculous! Creativity put in the wrong hands again.

 

We can magine how much suffering in the countless mice and pigeons (and

other animals) who were sacrificed in their labs towards this " achievement "

!!

 

 

 

What's the point of " controlling " like this? Does it make us better humans

or the birds better birds???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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aapn [aapn ] On Behalf Of Kim

Bartlett

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:02 AM

aapn

MSNBC Chinese succeed in implanting brain electrodes to

influence flight

 

 

 

>Scientists remotely control pigeons

>Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting

>electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely

>control the bird's flight, state media said.

>http://www.msnbc. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17359821/>

msn.com/id/17359821/

>

Scientists remotely control pigeons

Chinese succeed in implanting brain electrodes to influence flight

The Associated Press

Updated: 4:53 a.m. AKT Feb 27, 2007

 

BEIJING - Chinese scientists have succeeded in

implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to

remotely control the bird's flight, state media

said.

 

Xinhua News Agency said the scientists at the

Robot Engineering Technology Research Center at

Shandong University of Science and Technology in

eastern China used the micro electrodes to

command the bird to fly right or left, and up or

down.

 

The implants stimulated different areas of the

pigeon's brain according to electronic signals

sent by the scientists via computer, mirroring

natural signals generated by the brain, Xinhua

quoted chief scientist Su Xuecheng as saying.

 

It was the first such successful experiment on a

pigeon in the world, said Su, who conducted a

similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.

 

C 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

This material may not be published, broadcast,

rewritten or redistributed.Copyright 2007 The

Associated Press. All rights reserved. This

material may not be published, broadcast,

rewritten or redistributed.

 

URL: http://www.msnbc. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17359821/>

msn.com/id/17359821/

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