NOW WITH THE PIGEONS.

NOW WITH THE PIGEONS. Coming hard upon the heels of the Chinese anti-satellite test, and the report of US Navy foolin' around with sharks, it appears that China is attempting to create an army of cyborg pigeons.

Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China's Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down.The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon's brain according to signals sent by the scientists via computer, and forced the bird to comply with their commands.

An insidious effort to develop a delivery system for weaponized avian flu? Noah at Danger Room has the following to say:

I, for one, am outraged. Those of us growing up in New York know that there is nothing nastier than the swarming, disease-ridden, flying rats who turn every public place into a fight for room to breathe. Now China is looking to engineer a fleet of cyborg pigeon slaves? Damn them. And damn those old ladies who feed the pigeons, in the first place.

--Robert Farley