Re: OT: Orwellianism and real-life mad science.
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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Second, (I know no more about this than a brief announcement on the radio) scientists have taught rat brain cells (And not in a rat, presumably) to fly a flight simulator.
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I read about this from a article on some magazine. IIRC they had real rat brains and somehow they got it flight straigth. When they dipped the plane either left or right, the brains then made it straighten. IIRC they were thinking to teach it to follow some pattern in flying too, but it was just a plan. I remember the difficult part was to motivate brain to do something. I guess the rat brain was thinking: "Why the hell I would want to fly an airplane??" 
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