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Worst Thing Ever: Insect Robots

THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 2007 9:00 AM

Submitted by FearTheReaper. Edited By erin_broadley.

TAGS: Insect robots



I hate bugs and I hate robots. Now some asshole seems to have created insect robots. Why don’t they just blow up the planet? Robots are pure evil and in case anyone hasn’t noticed movies over the past few decades, they will eventually kill us all. It’s inevitable, especially when you make them small and give them wings. Unfortunately, protesters claim the winged bot demons are here.


"I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects."


"I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' "


They are alive and mechanical. They are “robotic fliers” and they are going to kill you. The insect drones are high-tech surveillance tools that have been seen at political protests in Washington and New York. Although, no agency has claimed the robobugs.


No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. But a number of U.S. government and private entities acknowledge they are trying. Some federally funded teams are even growing live insects with computer chips in them, with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies and controlling their flight muscles remotely.


Uh, what? After I finish this article, I’m going to blow my brains out. I figure it will be more pleasant than the coming insect robot revolution. I always pictured fighting for my life in storm drains, using my warning cats (I like cats) to alert me to intrusive robots. But those robots are supposed to be large and take the shape of humans. Sure, there would be the occasional spider shaped robot, crawling around with a video camera, but my cats would quickly destroy them. Flying insect robots obviously fuck up everything. Now a robot just flies into my storm drain, armed with its tiny stinger full of deadly poison. Or worse, a substance that only paralyzes my cats and me. Then the humanoid robots just saunter in, take me back to the lab and attempt to manpregnate me with cyborgs. Totally fucked up.

Some, however, do not believe that the tiny airborne robots exist.


The technical challenges of creating robotic insects are daunting, and most experts doubt that fully working models exist yet.

"If you find something, let me know," said Gary Anderson of the Defense Department's Rapid Reaction Technology Office.


Actually, you’ll know because one will have flown into your ear and taken control of you body. Idiot.

The CIA developed the “insectothopter” in the 70’s. It used a tiny gasoline engine, four wings and looked like a dragonfly. But it was taken out of commission because it couldn’t handle crosswinds. And that was the seventies! Of course they have tiny flying robots now.

Even more disturbing, we have created “cyborg insects.”


In one approach, researchers funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are inserting computer chips into moth pupae -- the intermediate stage between a caterpillar and a flying adult -- and hatching them into healthy "cyborg moths."


Great. Just fucking great. We have cameras everywhere, constantly watching people, but I never thought I would have to be concerned about tiny flying cameras. This brings surveillance to an entirely different level. We here in America tend to value our privacy and I’m pretty sure the Founding Fathers never covered flying insect robots in The Constitution. I don’t think Thomas Jefferson ever looked at James Madison and said,


    Hey, what if somebody makes tiny eavesdropping robots to fly above protesters?

    Wow, good point, Tommy. We should cover insect robots, as well as bug cyborgs.


Welcome to the invasion of privacy insect robot era. It's not goint to be pretty. I’ve been violated too many times by regular bugs and understand how intrusive they can be. I give it 30 years before we are a slave race working for insect robots.


FearTheReaper does not welcome our new insectobot warlords.

 

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Alzy

Alzy

New York, NY
January 2006

OCT 11, 2007 10:52 AM

Robots creep the fuck out of me. But if there is some way to imbed chips in ME and make me a cyborg who can kick some serious ass, I'm all for that!

Tatsu_Shiro

Tatsu_Shiro

Wichita, KS
October 2007

OCT 11, 2007 10:59 AM

Uncognitive said:
I'm so bugging the folks at The Sharper Image to whip me up a counter-surveillance robot frog.



ROFLMAO NEWB ROXXORS BOXXEZ LEET HAX FTW!!!!!! that was so funny, I weed on myself....literally.

_kungfoo_

_kungfoo_

Los Angeles, CA
April 2005

OCT 11, 2007 11:01 AM

Emmanuel said:
I know a man who used to work in aviation and also robotics that was asked to develop dragon fly style wings for small flying robots. He said it was nearly impossible because dragon flies weigh less than the lightest wing he was able to produce. The dragon fly spy project was capped...



...or so he was told.

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bekindtomonkeys

bekindtomonkeys

Denton, TX
October 2007

OCT 11, 2007 11:14 AM

christ...no wonder that fly exploded into a fiery, tiny armageddon when i swatted it in my kitchen...

i thought i was just like...fuckin' high. good to know it was real. yeah.

KingHELL

KingHELL

Portland, OR
July 2003

OCT 11, 2007 11:26 AM

This is currently the third article on the front page of the Newswire with a "Worst ____ Ever" headline. I'm off to score some Zoloft; who's with me?

Cassiel

Cassiel

Aurora, CO
September 2004

OCT 11, 2007 11:28 AM

ummm, waterhoses? electromagnetic pulses?

DevilsReject

DevilsReject

Cleveland, OH
February 2007

OCT 11, 2007 12:01 PM

this is going to make bug zappers all that much more interesting to watch!



I just imagined FTR in a horribly stained wife beater, with his 90 cats sitting in his living room with about ten of these plugged in and hanging from the ceiling, only to stop playing Wii and get off the couch to scream "YOU DAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!" out the front door occasionally.

Mark_plus_Beer

Mark_plus_Beer

United Kingdom
August 2005

OCT 11, 2007 12:04 PM

Time to invest in EMP Bug Spray methinks

gnihk

gnihk

Portland, ME
September 2007

OCT 11, 2007 12:06 PM

dang.

Dan brown - facts 4th bullet up from the bottom.


I remember my high school spanish teacher making her classes buy his books and one of them they had these little " spy bugs" in. He supposedly uses actual factual things and technology in his novels. and in the one I read the little flying things had poison on them or something and were crazy super weapons.

TheCoolerKing

TheCoolerKing

NEWSWIRE

Los Angeles, CA

OCT 11, 2007 12:08 PM

Well, I think it's a great idea! Heh heh... (peers around nervously)

About time we got some creatures in charge who know what they're doing... (swats at air)

All hail robot insects!

TheCoolerKing aka "guy looking to sell out his people for a small island"

Skywisdom

Skywisdom

Portland, OR
December 2005

OCT 11, 2007 12:11 PM

It's cool, don't worry!
Just knock them out with an electric shock, and hook up their internal pipes so the blue liquid flows into the right exit (watch out for bombs) and the flying machines will be yours to control and spy on people with!

Zarth

Zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

OCT 11, 2007 12:14 PM

TheCoolerKing said:
Well, I think it's a great idea! Heh heh... (peers around nervously)

About time we got some creatures in charge who know what they're doing... (swats at air)

All hail robot insects!

TheCoolerKing aka "guy looking to sell out his people for a small island"


SG's very own Gaius Baltar, ladies and gentlemen.

TheCoolerKing

TheCoolerKing

NEWSWIRE

Los Angeles, CA

OCT 11, 2007 12:32 PM

Zarth said:

TheCoolerKing said:
Well, I think it's a great idea! Heh heh... (peers around nervously)

About time we got some creatures in charge who know what they're doing... (swats at air)

All hail robot insects!

TheCoolerKing aka "guy looking to sell out his people for a small island"


SG's very own Gaius Baltar, ladies and gentlemen.


Hah.

I had no choice!

You would have... (eats grape fed to him by ladyrobot insect) ...done the same thing!

DevilsReject

DevilsReject

Cleveland, OH
February 2007

OCT 11, 2007 12:35 PM

TheCoolerKing said:

Zarth said:

TheCoolerKing said:
Well, I think it's a great idea! Heh heh... (peers around nervously)

About time we got some creatures in charge who know what they're doing... (swats at air)

All hail robot insects!

TheCoolerKing aka "guy looking to sell out his people for a small island"


SG's very own Gaius Baltar, ladies and gentlemen.


Hah.

I had no choice!

You would have... (eats grape fed to him by ladyrobot insect) ...done the same thing!



The bad news. You're robot lady there has a non-renewable power source. which means, once she's out of power you're going to have a robot corpse on your hands. good luck with that.


wink

downwiththemob

downwiththemob

I'm lost
January 2005

OCT 11, 2007 12:56 PM

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