Existential dread
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 05 Jun 22:36
https://mander.xyz/post/31483147

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Dadifer@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 23:19 next collapse

Finally!

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 05 Jun 23:23 next collapse

why not just control cockroaches with food

renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf on 06 Jun 02:16 collapse

Why not just control cockroaches with artificial scarcity?

ICastFist@programming.dev on 06 Jun 02:31 collapse

Why not control the cockroaches with puppet leaders?

loomy@lemy.lol on 05 Jun 23:29 next collapse

perfect title

Zoop@beehaw.org on 05 Jun 23:34 next collapse

Poor little things :(

latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Jun 08:52 collapse

This. Did not expect to feel bad for cockroaches today…

AnyOldName3@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 23:48 next collapse

I guess this is slightly less disturbing than the previous approach to cyborg cockroaches where their antennae were snipped and enamelled wire was inserted into the stubs to directly stimulate their nerves.

TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works on 05 Jun 23:50 next collapse

Nietzsche’s tits would fall off

[deleted] on 06 Jun 10:01 collapse

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Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 23:51 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9de8eff9-c4ab-4996-97a6-c95dbc16f3e3.jpeg">

LongLive@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 11:21 collapse

You don’t need much c4 to render an individual sterile.

tdawg@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 00:10 next collapse

I love how this is borderline torture. Next we’ll be steering animals by tugging on their balls

flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 00:41 next collapse

…there’s a fetish in there somewhere!

skulblaka@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 02:46 next collapse

I have bad news about rodeos

bampop@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 15:12 collapse

A little at a time. We need to get comfortable doing this to cockroaches before we can start large scale testing on humans

Rooskie91@discuss.online on 06 Jun 00:21 next collapse

Death may be a preferable alternative to being found in rubble by a swarm of cyborg cockroaches.

insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe on 06 Jun 00:27 next collapse

Me, haunting those responsible for the wording:

<img alt="The Spirit of the Harvest Moon is a spirit and the main antagonist from “The House of Discontent” S2E12p1 of Courage The Cowardly Dog Show. It is a giant floating bald head of a moon-esque man: with glowing white skin, scowling black lips, and pure black eye sockets." src="https://preview.redd.it/spirit-of-the-harvest-moon-respects-the-land-v0-5mclcofaojlc1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8eecd629aed12370c0df7294e2c4410df2b3a7ff"> not a cyborg.

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 01:52 next collapse

this was one of the xfiles episodes, where the aliens were controlling the roaches, to send a singal.

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca on 06 Jun 04:18 collapse

Also in the Fifth Element

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 02:34 next collapse

This actually brings back memories, lol.

So I’m a surgical tech- I set the OR up for surgery before a case with all the supplies and instruments that specific case calls for; am the surgeon’s bitch during the operation; and tear down once it’s all done. When I first started this job, I had to write up a case report on every new surgery I did to show familiarity with the anatomy we were working around and be able to anticipate the types of instrumentation we needed, and getting info for those case reports was kind of a pain in the ass. Everything is either directed at patients (lots of detail on preop, “and then you’ll be asleep for the surgery” and lots of details on postop), or to the surgeon, which goes into WAY more detail than I needed using terminology I didn’t understand.

Enter YouTube. One of the best ways to get that data was to just look up a recording of the surgery on YouTube and just write down what I saw.

I’m also a nerd, so when I wasn’t looking up videos on surgery, I was looking up videos on things like physics or sci-fi.

Turns out that did some weird things to YouTube’s algorithm… it basically poured ‘surgery’ and ‘weird nerdy shit’ into the same cup, and started making some of the most fucked up video recommendations I’ve ever seen… one of which was a video of a guy giving anesthesia to a cockroach with ice water, and then sticking a diode or something into its little roach brain that connected to a circuit board backpack like the one shown in the OP. He could then use a remote to stimulate two different parts of its brain or something, and if he did this while it was running, it would reliably turn left or right, so… remote control cockroach.

Tbh, the pic on the OP might actually be from that same video.

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voodooattack@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 06:38 next collapse

I actually browse it in a private window when I’m curious about a topic I don’t want to be associated with. It’s not unexpected we reached that level of enshittification given that direction where things are going this decade and the last though.

felixwhynot@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 07:29 collapse

Relevant username detected and appreciated

HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today on 06 Jun 04:13 next collapse

Thanks a lot Osama!

Supervisor194@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 04:24 next collapse

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could control the cyborg cockroaches, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Snowcano@startrek.website on 06 Jun 04:37 next collapse

youtu.be/DrHMBletjXg

theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 10:24 collapse

Came here looking for this.

Wofls@feddit.org on 06 Jun 07:31 next collapse

We do what we must because we can

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 07:44 next collapse

“We have learned to steer humans! All it was needed was a sharp pain from a bright light directly into their eyeballs (below the eyelids), and since humans tend to avoid pain, they try to move away from the spots where we press the pain button.

Well, except Jimmy12, he has been gooning all experiment long, so the controls need to be reversed.”

genuineparts@infosec.pub on 06 Jun 07:55 next collapse

Ah sweet man-made horrors well within my comprehension!

JacksonLamb@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 09:50 next collapse

I do not want to be reincarnated as a cyborg cockroach.

FooBarrington@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 09:54 next collapse

There must be an anime about this

JacksonLamb@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 09:56 collapse

Love death and robots will have one sooner or later.

musubibreakfast@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 11:23 collapse

We will turn you into the 6 million dollar cockroach

slingstone@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 14:23 collapse

We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster!

andybytes@programming.dev on 06 Jun 10:15 next collapse

This is fucking stupid

FelixCress@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 11:19 next collapse

The most concise summary I could think of too 😂

jnod4@lemmy.ca on 06 Jun 13:18 collapse

Roaches need like to recharging. All is fun until you tame a cockroach to drop cyanide into somebodies coffee or 1 gram of shaped explosive charge on somebodies jugular when they sleep. Now imagine thousands of them swarming an entrenched position or building, or crawling in a bunker

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 10:24 next collapse

Before using in humans, they need to test it first in animals. Neurochips and VR glasses are already on the way, until now FOX News and X are only partial satisfactory.

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk on 06 Jun 14:19 next collapse

One step closer to The Fifth Element every day.

slingstone@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 14:26 next collapse

So, we can make cockroach cyborgs, probably torturing them along the way, but not fix our messed up society. Fun.

lightnsfw@reddthat.com on 06 Jun 14:46 collapse

To be fair making cyborg cockroaches is way easier.

slingstone@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 17:06 collapse

Maybe the cyborg roaches will gain sapience, rebel, and take over. One can only hope. It can’t be worse than what we have now.

Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new electronic/insectoid overlords.

TessierAshpool@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 14:53 next collapse

Cyborg cockroaches were used to find survivors in the recent Myanmar earthquake

straitstimes.com/…/spores-cyborg-cockroaches-help…

I say we see what other insects and small animals we can turn into cyborgs

BmeBenji@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 15:03 next collapse

The final boss from the new DOOM game: The Cyberroach

Shanedino@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 15:20 next collapse

The lab I worked in during college had a project that was very similar but used the antennae.

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 06 Jun 16:35 next collapse

We’re worse than the Mechanicus tech priests.

imgcat@lemmy.ml on 08 Jun 19:33 collapse

what a dredful life, being controlled like a robot

proceeds to check bank account