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Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel

35 pointsby gscottlast Monday at 8:54 PM7 commentsview on HN

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PowerElectronixtoday at 8:18 AM

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...

Seriously, this playing with living organisms to augment their capabilities and make them do our bidding is a bit beyond my personal moral threshold. At this point isn't easier to miniaturize a robot cocroach?

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sir_eliahtoday at 8:54 AM

Every day we're getting closer to the tech-world in the "Starfish" from Peter Watts.

notahantoday at 7:46 AM

Oh god, you can imagine how governments are going to look at this and freak out about espionage. Or worse, use this tech for espionage!!

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jdw64today at 6:11 AM

Looking at the severed parts, it doesn't seem like they'll live long. I wonder how long they'd survive after something like that.

It looks like something out of CockroachPunk 2077

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slipperybelugatoday at 6:15 AM

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