Rat brain flies jet. RAT BRAIN FLIES JET.

[annbunny]

Rat brain flies jet
By Robin Lettice
Published Tuesday 7th December 2004 16:01 GMTFlorida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane

Comments

[m3h]

haha. that's fucking awesome. maybe they can grow a human brain for the presidency next.

sometimes the expression "brave new world" just doesn't do it for me anymore

[mrzeppo]

where did you find this? a manuscript from the original Star Trek never made?

Re: sometimes the expression "brave new world" just doesn't do it for me anymore

[annbunny]

Either Warren Ellis' blog or one of my science news feeds. Personally I think it's marvelous--the concept of wetware as hardware. Yeah. Makes me do a geeky little dance.