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Yuck. Torturing insects to make worse-than-MIDI music is gross. Like, I dunno, record lots of cicada sounds and SIMULATE it? These researchers should be asha
by mystraline 1y ago
Yuck.
Torturing insects to make worse-than-MIDI music is gross.
Like, I dunno, record lots of cicada sounds and SIMULATE it?
These researchers should be ashamed of themselves. And it wasn't other-life-saving reasons, but shitty music.
- debugnik 1y agoThey do claim to have a better motive, but it's a fairly weak one: > with the idea that cyborg cicadas might one day be used to transmit warning messages during emergencies
- msla 1y agoI've lived somewhere with cicadas. If their drone begins to tell me things, I'm checking into a mental hospital for a schizophrenia workup and/or so the massive bug monster doesn't eat me.
- dheera 1y agoAcademic "motivations" are just there to get papers accepted. Papers are just there to get tenure and graduate. Most of academia isn't after real science anymore.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoOh like in "When They Cry"
- cyberax 1y ago> to transmit warning messages during emergencies In other words, if you see insects with electrodes that are moving towards you: RUN!