to study emotions,” . . . for “most of the genes in the fruit fly are also in humans, including neurons that produce brain chemicals associated with several psychiatric disorders.” Enough said.
That particular NSF experiment doubtlessly had nothing to do with the aggressive horse fly that attacked me. Nevertheless, the article makes very clear that scientists are interested in using flying insects in studying emotions in similar situations. Or are scientists simply studying insects as models for building drones to spy on humans?
In a December 16, 2011 MSNBC U.S.News article
on domestic spying drones, Sylvia Wood quotes
M. Ryan Calo, director for privacy and robotics at the Stanford Law School's Center for
Internet
and Society, as saying “Drones are capable of finding or following a specific person. .
. .They can fly patterns in search of suspicious activities or hover over a location in wait.
Some are as small as birds or
insects [emphasis is mine], others as big as blimps.”
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