| From: | The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | CyberPigeon |
| Date: | Tue, 14 Sep 1993 00:57:58 -0500 |
Taken
>Install mini-Cybereyes with cameras and some other vision mods, yuir choice.
Done
>Wire up the bird's reflexes, i.e. electrodes in muscles allowing the user to
>flap the bird's wings, etc., by remote control.
Now I have a bird who flaps really really fast. Makes for a good fan :)
>Add whatever electronics are necessary to run a drone.
>Optional: Surgically Implanted Underwing Turbines
The first option is where you start to get sketchy. The second will likely
rip the bird's wings off, as well as drive him nuts (provided enough of
the bird's sense of self remains intact after all this hyping).
>Advantages: your new "pet" will fly around, eat breadcrumbs, crap on
statues,
>and the usual bird things. UNTIL you take control. And fly your living
"drone"
>over otherwise secure facilities. It'd have an obscenely low sig.
I think the plausibility of this idea depends on your faith in doing similar
things to human beings. For instance, in NAGEE someone wrote up "sleepwalkers",
people who have "Wired Reflexes 0" installed along with specialized skillsofts
to allow their body to go on autopilot while their mind participates in other
activities: chipping, "sleeping", writing a disertation on Headware memory. . .
and they do bring up the subject of "remote control". Of course, with animals
one might argue that some of the inhibitions against doing it to a human
being (destrying the mind) don't apply.
I suppose I believe it's plausible. . .whether it'll be acceptable or
cost-effective is another matter. Don't forget the implications: if it can be
done to a bird it can be done to other animals.
As for your disadvantages: If you can remote control the bird anyway, why
would you need to worry about it flying off and absconding with your high-tech
circuitry (and likely dying in the wilderness because it's not all there). Just
"land" the damn thing in your hangar all night. No one said you had to
let it out on its own.
>Coming soon from Thwaptronics Ltd.: the Dikoted Hummingbird.
>Howzabout a Stainless Steel Cat (counterintelligence model, designed to catch
>SS Rats.)
Sounds like an idea with the intelligence of a counter.:)
>Imagine a Camel with enhanced articulation and one of those mouth gas
>projectors (Watch out! they spit!)
I'm tempted to say "let's see the monkeys" (and just did). I think you've been
watching/listening to "Aladin" too much.
>Cybermammoth with Armor-Piercing Tusks!
Mammoths are scary enough, according to my GURPS Ice Age players.
>The possibilities aare endless!
aardvark endless?
> --Blindside (eagerly awaiting flames with an Ice Bolt, force 12)
But my flames ar dikoted.
J Roberson
Can be just as ridiculous as the next person
Quote for today:
"Here's the manual. I assume you know how to use an index."
"No. . .I'm a freshman."
LOTUS IS EVIL. . .GET EXCEL. . .
