Lab creates brain made from rat cells

KingNothing writes "A University of Florida scientist has created a living "brain" of cultured rat cells that now controls an F-22 fighter jet flight simulator. Scientists say the research could lead to tiny, brain-controlled prosthetic devices and unmanned airplanes flown by living computers. Read on for more."

Dupe!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dupe, dupe, dupe,
Dupe of url!

I've heard that before...

[edmz]

...here [slashdot.org]

Dupe.

[slothdog]

I, for one, welcome our new duplicate story [slashdot.org] overlords.

unfortunate byline

[passthecrackpipe]

The byline to the photo with the story is rather unfortunate - under a picture of a man holding a seemingly molded petri dish, is the text "DeMendi with his Brain"

Re:unfortunate byline

[nes11]

who is this DeMendi fellow?

Re:unfortunate byline

[Morphine007]

ermm... actually it's DeMarse.... which kind of sounds like dumb-arse if you say it quickly... so maybe it's an apt title ;)

discovery channel?

[laard]

I half expected the link to take me to the sci-fi channel

Duplicate

[farmgeek]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 4/0024241&tid=191&tid=126&tid=14 [slashdot.org]

Rat Brain to Prevent Dupes

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe someone can use a rat brain to prevent dupes on Slashdot!

Re:Rat Brain to Prevent Dupes

[benjamin264]

Or what if they developed a way to use a rat brain to prevent duplicate posts on Slashdot!

What gets me...

[Dixie_Flatline]

Is that I even emailed a link to the supposedly on-duty editor, and SAID that this was a dupe. It's okay if nobody's let them know what's going on, but I know that at LEAST one email was sent telling them not to post this story.

Re:Me too

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome our furiously meat-jacking editor overlords.

In other news.....

[nes11]

In other news a living "brain" of cultured rat cells now controls the slashdot editorial process....

Re:In other news.....

[SpaceLifeForm]

That explains the missed e-mail, they were probably out flying.

Dupe

[Keebler71]

I think this [slashdot.org] innovative website already broke the story two days ago.

Re:Dupe

[CAlworth1]

Yeah, its currently the last article on the science.slashdot.org page...

Re:Rat pilots?

[raider_red]

Hey I worked for the FAA! And you, unfortunately, are very much correct.

Slashdot creates dupe made from rat feces

[Dachannien]

A Slashdot editor has created a living "dupe" of cultured rat feces that now controls a TIE fighter flight simulator. Slashdot posters say the article could lead to tiny, brain-controlled prosthetic dupes and unmanned editors flown by living computers. Read on for more. [slashdot.org]

Oh no...

[vbweenie]

Ratwar!

um, weird moderation?

[boomka]

it's strange how a few people that actually put some posts here saying that this is a dupe and even made links to original slashdot discussion are being modded into zeros as redundant.

I think the article is redundant, not the posters who point you to a correct place to read the discussion. They are just being informative - if not for them, you would miss an actual discussion.

Re:um, weird moderation?

[Oddly_Drac]

"it's strange how a few people that actually put some posts here saying that this is a dupe and even made links to original slashdot discussion are being modded into zeros as redundant."

Not really, more than on 'dupe' declaration is redundant, whereas you can't moderate a story.

On the other hand, would you prefer 'insightful' for every one?

Re:um, weird moderation?

[quinto2000]

Fair enough, but even the first poster who said this was a dupe was modded down.

Re:um, weird moderation?

[mykdavies]

I'm taking my Score:0, Redundant as a warning shot from Hemos for daring to question the hallowed Slashdot editorial process.

I guess I'm lucky they didn't use their power to replace random Boobies in my posting with childish Weeners.

Re:um, weird moderation?

[NanoGator]

"it's strange how a few people that actually put some posts here saying that this is a dupe and even made links to original slashdot discussion are being modded into zeros as redundant."

As it should be.

A.) Multiple whinings about it are redundant. Big ol karma grab here if theyr'e modded up.

B.) Posting that it's redundant does more harm than good. Want dupes to go away? Don't comment in that thread. More comments == more ad hits for Slashdot.

C.) It's not like Slashdot is killing puppies when t

Re:um, weird moderation?

[flyingsquid]

However, redundant posts on redundancy are recursive.

Is this a

[floydman]

failing attempt from /. to perform clonning?

Hmm

[Bluesman]

I wonder how many neurons it takes to recognize simple patterns.

Like patterns in. . . say . . . news article headlines.

Jesus Fucking Christ!

[Lord Kano]

Don't these people ever watch Science Fiction films?

You don't put something like that in control of weapons.

A stealthy F22 controlled by an artificially grown brain falling into the hands of some shady characters sounds like the central theme in a Steven Seagal movie.

In all seriousness. Something like this has no idea that it's wrong to fire on unarmed civillians. A human pilot does. A human pilot knows that if he drops a bomb on unarmed civillians, there is a chance that he'll be spending time on the wr

Dalek?

[dchamp]

Does it look anything like this? [compuserve.com]

A real use.

[Pwned]

Redefines self-adjusting AI for Ut2004. That's a waaay more useful applications for rat computers.