This is interesting. They are now looking at training wasps - the bug not the White Anglo Saxon Protestants - to detect nerve gas and explosives. Somebody better tell Lucky he should stop eating them!
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/02/wasps-enlisted-in-war-on-terror.html
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Personally I find this sort of thing both alarming and revolting. This is not a case of drug-sniffing dogs but of playing Dr. Frankenstien or perhaps more accurately Dr. Moreau, with a great risk of abuse. An insect is not exactly the same as a cuddly animal, but this type of experimenting is not being limited to lower order creatures. Check out this article:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18925416.300.html
Using sharks, monkeys, etc as remote-brain-controlled spies (the excuse given) or weapons (the real reason)? Sounds like science fiction right?
I almost shudder to think where our civilization will be a few years down the road...
Roy
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