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Locust to fight with terrorism?

American scientist from Washington University in st.Louis got donation of 750 thousand dollars from Development Office navy, which will be used to develop new bomb detection system.

New system will not use advanced scanners but cyborg-locust. This enhanced locust will be equipped with special devices that will allow remote control of this insect and detection of bomb. Long experiment on locust sense of smell show that this animal have very specific smell organ that allows is to detect smell from materials used in improvised explosives used by terrorist.

Baranidharan Raman, manager of this project believe that this modified lotus will be much more effective in explosive detection than robots because lotus have natural antennae that is equipped whits many natural sensor.

How will they control lotus? They will use special brain electrode, that will take control of antennae of lotus. It will allow readings of it electric activity. Thew will also install special backpack on lotus transmit gathered information from the lotus to operator together with information about detected bombs. Scientist also invented special mechanism that will allow to control movement of lotus. They will tattoo theirs wings with bio-combatyblity silk that will convert light to heat. Laser installed in backpack will allow to control cyborg-lotus effectively changing them in remotely control drones.

If tests will go positively, first prototype of this explosive detecting lotus will be constructed next year.

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