Remote Control Flies (next: remote control humans?)

Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans.

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Who needs haarp for mind control when you've got lasers triggering the neurons to make you jump without even asking how high?

[edit on 4/11/2005 by darwinman1]

That's really cool, I like the headless one taking flight.

There's a big difference, however, between 'simple' actions like "FLY" and more complex ones that require the controled to acess information that's not inherent and requires feedback, like "MAKE ME AN OMLETTE!"

I don't understand how the lasers affected them, how they got in their heads.

P.S. - Why is the link to asia.news.yahoo.com if it's about Yale?

Sorry, here is the report on Yale's Website (with very weird video). I originally found it on yahoo (hence the original link).

Ah, ok, that helps a lot. Explains a lot more about how they did it, and shows more of what they did with it (and that a lot of it was relatively simplistic behavior).

Fascinating work, I still say.

Originally posted by Terapin
This is a duplicate thread.

Threads are allowed to coexist on ATS and ATSNN.

Now, if people would just respond to this one...