{"id":617,"date":"2013-06-27T04:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theroacheshavenoking.com\/RoachesBlog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2013-06-27T04:08:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:08:41","slug":"not-funny-when-its-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"When it&#8217;s a cat, somehow it&#8217;s not funny, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/2013\/06\/27\/not-funny-when-its-a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-620\" alt=\"cyborg_cat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cyborg_cat.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a>Words are unequal to the horror that is reported in an article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/06\/25\/roach-kinect-cyborgs\/\">Mad scientists turn roaches into cyborgs, control them with Kinect, laugh at nature<\/a>.\u00a0 Humans implant circuits into the nervous systems of cockroaches so they can control their motion. \u00a0Are these humans monsters? Even the geek reporter admits as much.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mengele (aka Dr. Alper Bozkurt, of the project) says, &#8220;Our goal is to be able to guide these roaches as efficiently as possible, and our work with Kinect is helping us do that.&#8221; Untold numbers of roaches will die, as data is collected on how they endure the torture. \u00a0And the excuse? As usual, it&#8217;s about &#8220;disaster areas,&#8221; how these deaths are really part of a humanitarian effort.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to impale the heads of living beings, at least man up as much as any \u00a0little kid would. &#8220;I do it because it&#8217;s fun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The worst part? Kinect is made by Microsoft. Couldn&#8217;t we at least die on an Apple or a Wii?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/2013\/06\/27\/not-funny-when-its-a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-623\" alt=\"Bride Of Frankenstein 25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bride-Of-Frankenstein-25.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words are unequal to the horror that is reported in an article:\u00a0Mad scientists turn roaches into cyborgs, control them with Kinect, laugh at nature.\u00a0 Humans implant circuits into the nervous systems of cockroaches so they can control their motion. \u00a0Are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}