Scientists Write Memories Directly Into Fly Brains

Creepy One step closer to the matrix.

 

woah this is really cool

 

It's great... and inevitable. I just hope we eventually mature enough to use this for our own good, instead of the opposite. Last century humanity was like 3-year old kid playing with all the dangerous toys, nearly killing itself. And there's still a major mess left to be cleaned!

 

Brainwashing may someday be much easier! Thanks, science!

 

This would be the ultimate hangover prank

 

Reminds me waaay too much of Philip K. Dick novels and short stories. That man was terribly ahead of his time, and now this--! Hello, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and all the rest.

Although, it is cool. Just really, really dangerous in a River Tam kind of a way.

 

What they don't mention is that this was discovered entirely by accident, when the mad professor tripped over a mouldy pizza box, startling a fly who had been munching on some ATP flavoured pepperoni, who then flew angrily at him, making him poop his pants, creating a bad smell, which further irritated the fly, now hell bent on buzzing the professor to death, until he whipped out his trusty laser pen and pointed it at the fly, stunning it to the ground. Afterwards, the professor found that he never again saw this particular fly in the toilet cubicle when he needed to do a poop, so just in case his research team found out a fly had made him poop his pants, he fabricated the above experiment to prove that the fly was imagining the whole thing and that ATP flavoured pepperoni was to blame for it.