Behold the power of the Fly!
April 14, 2005 2:58 PM   Subscribe

Laser-controlled headless zombie flies.
I, for one, welcome our remote-controlled headless zombie fly overlords.
posted by crankydoodle (17 comments total)
 
Dude?
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 3:00 PM on April 14, 2005


This stuff is *soooo* cool (since this is kinda related to the field I'm going to go into once they let me finish this %I(# piece of *#^@ MSc mother%$*&#) but it's really not much more advanced than sticking electrodes into recently deceased frogs and making them jump.
posted by PurplePorpoise at 3:04 PM on April 14, 2005


Dang, makes me wonder what else I can control with my laser pointer.

Also makes me wonder how they beheaded the flies for the experiment? Did they have the world's smallest guillotine? Does PETA know they experimented on headless fruit flies?
posted by fenriq at 3:20 PM on April 14, 2005


Flying zombie frogs, crickets, and tomatoes.
posted by StickyCarpet at 3:24 PM on April 14, 2005


We broke it. Anyone have a mirror or torrent so I can check the hot headless zombie fly action?


If you have a zombie fly buzzing around your head does that mean you have shit for brains?

sorry.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 3:43 PM on April 14, 2005


I'm so disappointed the link wasn't about laser-controlled flying headless zombies.
posted by driveler at 4:09 PM on April 14, 2005


Saw them at CBGB's in 1980. Good times.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 4:24 PM on April 14, 2005


How long until we get headless-zombie-fly-cam?
posted by Popular Ethics at 4:58 PM on April 14, 2005


Alas free will, we hardly knew ye. Not with a bang, but a whimper...
posted by ontic at 4:58 PM on April 14, 2005


They say that this research can apparently help us identify the neural cells identified with overeating. I guess the next step is to make a remote-controlled headless human and see what buttons you have to push to make the thing reach for a bag of Fritos.
posted by painquale at 5:31 PM on April 14, 2005


That's. Just. Wrong.

bzzzzzzz
posted by mistersquid at 5:49 PM on April 14, 2005


Can we keep that silly tagline on /. please?
posted by randomstriker at 6:06 PM on April 14, 2005


I, for one, welcome the day when stupid cliches gleaned from the Simpsons and worked until they collapse like a forty-year-old horse hauling half a ton in the dead of July...

are suddenly uncool, and no one uses them.

posted by koeselitz at 6:17 PM on April 14, 2005


If you have a zombie fly buzzing around your head does that mean you have shit for brains?

sorry.


No need to apologize. I admit it, I laughed.
posted by shoppingforsanity at 6:29 PM on April 14, 2005


I, for one, welcome the day when stupid cliches gleaned from the Simpsons and worked until they collapse like a forty-year-old horse hauling half a ton in the dead of July...

are suddenly uncool, and no one uses them.


Yeah... especially since we are the flies' overlords. They are not ours.

If you're gonna use a cliched Simpsons reference, at least use it appropriately.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 8:33 PM on April 14, 2005


The Simpson's quote was the funniest thing I've heard all day. And I've been on safari.
posted by hammurderer at 8:56 PM on April 14, 2005


Saw them at CBGB's in 1980. Good times.

I know I'm late with this one, but damn! Armitage Shanks, you owe me for a flat screen monitor coffee-cleanup after that.

Although, now I think about it - I was at that gig...
posted by Sk4n at 6:37 AM on April 15, 2005


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