Life imitates SF

[peteryoung]

Almost Brian Aldiss's short story 'Shards': Rat brain cells in a dish fly a virtual fighter plane. (via Damien Broderick). SF fan Rich Horton, whose day-job is to write guided missile software, also points out there may once have been an experimental 1950s project to guide missiles using homing pigeons.

Earth's first extraterrestrially-conceived organism: a cockroach called Hope.

Today Show: Childless career women are "fembots" with no soul (video). Best collection of links here.   (via supergee)

Exploding toasters blamed on extraterrestrials. Seriously.

Comments

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

I see at the end of the Wiki article there are links to 'bat bombs' and 'anti-tank dogs' etc. I also remember a project that used dolphins to attach mines to ships, which IIRC was stopped after major protests.

[ajr.livejournal.com]

one bloke looked like a walrus.

Dick Strawbridge?