Is this *really* as eco-friendly as they say it is?
This seems like someone you can trust.
You ever read an article about some grand new initiative and the only thing you can think to yourself is, “Oh my god, this is like a horror movie in the making”?
Well that’s how I feel right now.
Someone sent this to me the other day, and the headline literally says, and I quote: “Why scientists are reanimating spider corpses for research”. In my humble opinion, spiders are terrifying enough the first time around, why on earth would we need to deal with them a second time?
I typed “zombie spider” into our stock photo database and this is what popped up. So please enjoy this photo of Rob Zombie in lieu of what I was actually looking for.
This is what’s going on at Rice University in Texas, where two researchers are co-authoring a paper on reanimating spider corpses to create “grippers”.
Now what on earth are “grippers”? They’re like tiny little tongs that can pick up and put down delicate objects. And they’re using dead arachnids for it.
If that isn’t freaky enough for you, this is just one small part in a whole world of science that I was not aware of, forget robotics, this is called “necrobotics”, where they believe this will frontrun a cheap, green, eco friendly alternative to robotics. Why ruin the earth a little more strip mining for cobalt and other elements to make batteries and robotics parts when you can just use a dead spider?
You see a dead animal. Science sees OPPORTUNITY!
Now if you’re a green eco friendly person, I would think that you’d naturally be against this.
Do spiders not have bodily autonomy like humans? Can spiders consent to their bodies being used after death for mechanical purposes?
I feel like there’s a lot of questions to be asked and answered before I can sign off on something like this. No thanks.
Thanks for reading, love you lots, and as always,
– Erik
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