Cyborg Bugs

Anyone ever heard of DARPA? This is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a wing of the Pentagon whose job, it seems, is to come up with ever more astonishingly ludicrous ideas. One of the latest is a notion that by implanting microchips into dragonflies and moths at the pupa stage, they'll be able to remotely control the adult insects and use them to detect bombs. Essentially, they want to create what the BBC calls a cyber insect army.

Seriously.

This is our government at work.

It's not funny! Really! They're using tax dollars to fund this shit!

DARPA also recently unveiled a plan to implant electrodes in sharks' brains so they can be used to track ships.

This is what the Pentagon does with $400 billion a year. Thanks, guys. Good work.