Bees - Pentagon, DARPA, mustard gas, land mines
Jun 5, 2010 20:48:58 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Jun 5, 2010 20:48:58 GMT -8
Pentagon Wants Cyborg Insects to Sniff WMD, Offer Free Wi-Fi
June 17, 2009 | 9:54 am |
In 2005, the military trained honeybees to sniff out land mines. Then, Darpa’s HI-MEMS program started trying to machinize insects instead. So far researchers have implanted micro-mechanical components into larval moths and created remote-controlled beetles. Those initial HI-MEMS efforts seemed designed for reconnaissance missions – this time, the Pentagon wants its modified bugs to detect and differentiate between chemical agents.
The Pentagon has handed researchers at Agiltron Corporation a contract to implant larvae with “high sensitivity micromechanical chemical sensors” that run on electric power collected with an embedded “electromagnetic harvester.” The implanted system would include muscle actuators, so different tics or twitches would signal the detection of different chemicals.
www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/pentagon-wants-cyborg-insects-to-sniff-wmd-offer-wi-fi/#ixzz0q2o5O2bJ
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450-YEAR PROJECT. The work comes as part of a push by theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is funding the project, and other organizations to develop safer and more effective ways of detecting and removing land mines. A deadly reality in much of the developing world, land mines kill roughly 15,000 to 20,000 people each year, according to a 2003 RAND Corp. study.
www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc20050816_6487_tc119.htm
What's kind of stupid is that there is a Land Mine Teaty that the USA doesn't sign. Who manufactures land mines?
More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. Besides the United States, holdouts include: China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Russia.
1998: Accudyne, which was founded in 1954 as a spinoff of the Hammond Organ Company, is a subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems of Hopkins, Minnesota. The parent company, a leader in the munitions field, is worth more than $1 billion. Alliant does a brisk business in land mines. www.albionmonitor.com/9802a/landmineusa.html
June 17, 2009 | 9:54 am |
In 2005, the military trained honeybees to sniff out land mines. Then, Darpa’s HI-MEMS program started trying to machinize insects instead. So far researchers have implanted micro-mechanical components into larval moths and created remote-controlled beetles. Those initial HI-MEMS efforts seemed designed for reconnaissance missions – this time, the Pentagon wants its modified bugs to detect and differentiate between chemical agents.
The Pentagon has handed researchers at Agiltron Corporation a contract to implant larvae with “high sensitivity micromechanical chemical sensors” that run on electric power collected with an embedded “electromagnetic harvester.” The implanted system would include muscle actuators, so different tics or twitches would signal the detection of different chemicals.
www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/pentagon-wants-cyborg-insects-to-sniff-wmd-offer-wi-fi/#ixzz0q2o5O2bJ
_____________________________
450-YEAR PROJECT. The work comes as part of a push by theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is funding the project, and other organizations to develop safer and more effective ways of detecting and removing land mines. A deadly reality in much of the developing world, land mines kill roughly 15,000 to 20,000 people each year, according to a 2003 RAND Corp. study.
www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc20050816_6487_tc119.htm
What's kind of stupid is that there is a Land Mine Teaty that the USA doesn't sign. Who manufactures land mines?
More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. Besides the United States, holdouts include: China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Russia.
1998: Accudyne, which was founded in 1954 as a spinoff of the Hammond Organ Company, is a subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems of Hopkins, Minnesota. The parent company, a leader in the munitions field, is worth more than $1 billion. Alliant does a brisk business in land mines. www.albionmonitor.com/9802a/landmineusa.html