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Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel
- alex_duf 3mo agoJust because you can doesn't mean you should
- encrypted_bird 3mo agoExactly. THE COCKROACHES CAN ALREADY SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR. WHY DO THEY INSIST ON MAKING THEM _STRONGER_?!
- jdw64 3mo agoLooking at the severed parts, it doesn't seem like they'll live long. I wonder how long they'd survive after something like that. It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077
- doublerabbit 3mo agoI am unsure they really care how long it lasts especially when you create something like this. As long it carries out it mission for a minute of two. Send it to some underwater fibre optic cable and use it as a depth charge to blow it up. No more requirements for anchors.
- frotaur 3mo agoNot sure the cockroach cyborg will survive such pressures, already surprised it can survive the few feet of water.
- coolness 3mo agoThe title says "hours-long diving" so at least a few hours i guess...
- matheusmoreira 3mo agoRoach Ex. My exoskeleton is augmented.
- AlbinoDrought 3mo agoUp in Canada, we had RoboRoach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRoach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRoach
- financetechbro 3mo agoSeems like the oxygen shell itself was just attached to the cockroach with adhesive, they were able to take it off afterwards. > After experiments, the shell can be removed and the membrane can be gently polished off to minimise any restrictions on the cockroach’s normal behaviour and daily activities. Four small dorsal openings were reserved for attaching the oxygen tubes, which were connected to the thoracic spiracles.
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- notahan 3mo agoOh god, you can imagine how governments are going to look at this and freak out about espionage. Or worse, use this tech for espionage!!
- JonathanRaines 3mo agoI hope they don't start bugging our homes.
- encrypted_bird 3mo agoYou joke, but...
- trhway 3mo agoIf you knew Russian you could enjoy the hysterics their propaganda were stoking in 2022-23 about alleged "combat mosquitos" the Ukrainians had developed. According to the propaganda the mosquitos were specifically able to target Russians based on DNA (interesting that according to the same propaganda Russians and Ukrainians are the same people - how poor mosquitos were supposed to distinguish between Russians and Ukrainians the propaganda didn't specify though)
- macintux 3mo agoI can't believe Russia even took that to the UN. Insane. https://global.espreso.tv/mosquitoes-vs-moscowitoes-reznikov-responds-to-combat-mosquitoes-accusation https://global.espreso.tv/mosquitoes-vs-moscowitoes-reznikov...
- fractallyte 3mo agoThis is a studied and documented propaganda tactic: flood the information space with conflicting accounts, in order to muddy the issue. This statement summarizes it nicely: "The purpose of propaganda is not to make you believe something. It is to make you believe nothing. Then you will do nothing." https://x.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1909932857948004738 https://x.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1909932857948004738
- PowerElectronix 3mo agoFrom the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh... Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?
- f6v 3mo agoIt's much easier to plug into something perfected by millions of years of selective pressure.
- npmaker 3mo agoIt really depends on a person's moral qualms and how deeply they are felt. For instance, different people put different amounts of effort in when a rogue house fly enters a room. Some kill, some catch and release. Which is easier? It really depends on the person and what they are willing to tolerate.
- lukan 3mo agoMost flies I kill, butterflies and wasps I usually guide out. But catching a insect and injecting electronic into it to force it to move where it does not want is kind of a very different thing to me.
- lmf4lol 3mo agoWhat is , in your moral judgement, the difference between a fly and butterlies and wasps? why kill one but guide out the other?
- lukan 3mo agoFlies fly on shit and bring that in the house. That is reason for me to not have mercy. They bring harm. Wasps do not bring harm to me, I know how to coexist with them, but if my kids are around, I will also kill them if they seem aggressive. So my ethics are very pragmatic.
- sir_eliah 3mo agoEvery day we're getting closer to the tech-world in the "Starfish" from Peter Watts.
- andrewflnr 3mo agoI think about Starfish's dead internet a lot now. Watts was really uncomfortably prescient.
- CompoundEyes 3mo agoA related article and the language used to describe the creature matches > Madagascar hissing cockroach has been used in various applications as a powerful platform https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60779-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60779-1
- gregoryyy 3mo agoBill Gates at it again!!! Damn you Bill Gates, damn yoooooouuu...!
- alentred 3mo agoIt is fun to imagine paleontologists, some millions of years from now, whatever species they will be themselves, finding a fossil of this cockroach and trying to explain it. One thing are humans having hip joint implants, but "why on Earth would they make a diving suite for a cockroach?!"
- BirAdam 3mo agoThey’d clearly decide that the cockroach was worshipped.
- ch4s3 3mo agoI dunno, probably had religious significance.
- proee 3mo agoMillions of years from now EVERYTHING will be some form of cyborg. So these cockroaches might be THE missing link of when computer and living species first started to merge.
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- swader999 3mo agoThis is the kind of Science I'd expect a 12 year old boy to come up with given unlimited funding.
- tda 3mo ago> ... oxygen generation mechanism of diving suit for cyborg cockroaches An actual quote from a Nature article
- txoria 3mo agoThe authors of the article deserve to get appropriate controllers inserted right up into their assholes, so they enjoy the operational range it gives to their fucking selves.
- UomoNeroNero 3mo agoyes, really.....
- ABNi 3mo agoA perfect 10 post. No notes.
- pvaldes 3mo agoJust what we need at this moment, the viruses and bacteria of hissing cockroaches entering into our valuable water sources so we can drink it, and maybe experience aquatic-park-fun mode in our intestines. Or even discover (who knows? microbiologists can dream) a new exciting pandemic, when two ecosystems that never evolved to be together meet each other? Imagine those giant marine viruses, now on our cricket bars and mosquitoes.