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Remote control in hand, scientists turn rats into living robots

Picture from Washington Post © 2002

News emerged this week which will no doubt send waves of paranoia through the fertile minds of conspiracists everywhere.

Scientists at the State University of New York (Suny) have been working on various projects for the US Defence Department's R&D section known as Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

The May 2002 edition of the magazine Nature carries a report which describes how scientists have managed to remotely-control the movements of rats. This has been done by simply attaching electrodes to two specific areas of the rat's brain which affect the left and right whiskers, and a third in the area which stimulates feelings of pleasure in the rat.

By manipulating the left-right electrodes, and rewarding the rat with a pleasurable sensation when the animal performs according to the controller's wishes, the scientists have managed to direct the rodents for up to an hour at a time.

According to a report in the Washington Post (Friday May 3rd,2002), these 21st century Dr. Frankensteins have even managed to steer the roborats to ' . . . climb trees or wander a brightly lit room &endash; alien behaviours for the untrained.'

The report continues:

After up to 10 days of training, the rat can navigate practically any landscape, wearing a receiver and a powerpack on its back and being steered by a technician issuing commands from a laptop up to 1,650 feet (500 meters) away, Chapin said.

The rat thus becomes a living robot, controlled remotely by a human handler but able to go anywhere a rat can go. And its supple anatomy gives it a huge and - at least for now - insurmountable advantage over any mechanical robot, which can be confounded by a pair of shoes lying on a carpet.

Although none of the US scientists interviewed in the Washington Post seemed to be personally concerned with the ethical questions raised by this research, Dr. Sanjiv Talwar, the lead author of the Nature report admitted to the Guardian newspaper (02/05/02) that using robotic animals for military uses could lead to their employment as assassination or surveillance "agents".

Professor Michael Reiss at London's Institute of Education who specialises in bioethics pointed out the moral questions involved with '.. . subverting a sentient animal's own aspirations and wish to lead a life of its own.'

Few conspiracy theorists would doubt that the Defence Department would have many qualms about using roborats for purposes other than scurrying through collapsed buildings looking for survivors (they might struggle with the bright lights and lifting equipment).

There have been theories for years concerning the psychological control from outside of various assassins such as Sirhan Sirhan, Mark Chapman and Timothy McVeigh - all of whom were rumoured to have been subject to mind control programmes.

John Lennon - victim of mind control assassin ?

Numerous discrepancies in the official versions of both killings, RFK and Lennon, and the "deranged nature" of their assassins suggest that although neither were acting in a 'rational' way, both managed to execute ruthlessly efficient killings of their targets.

Not a complete contradiction, but one which is explored in various sites, including our own.

Just as feasible are reported experiments in mass-psychological control through physical interference, rather than the well-tried, but never completely successful methods of propaganda and brainwashing through the mass-media, such as television and radio.

The possibility that ELF (Extra Low Freqency) radiation is used against unwitting civilian populations and specific individuals to depress or alter their mental states is one of much concern to organisations as diverse as bizarre Christian fundamentalists and 'Ickeans', to serious investigators into secret Government projects aiming to manipulate and control populations or areas.

So we can be sure that the 'roborat' is but the tip of a rather dangerous iceberg, but how far research extends beyond our four-footed rodent friends is something that we will probably not know until too late.

It is probably worth mentioning that another Darpa project being undertaken by Suny is to enable US Special Forces soldiers to stay awake for seven days on the trot. I wonder where there electrodes will be inserted?

God help anyone who meets Rambo when he's been awake on a mountain for a week.

Hopefully he'll be so delirious he'll imagine that you're a rat with a camera on it's head, sent by base to take him home to Tampa.

Although all commentators were quick to point out that the human being has a much more complex neural system than the rat, it is perhaps worth pointing out that the reason that researchers are so keen on using rats as human substitutes in medical and psychological experiments is because they resemble us so closely in so many ways.

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