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Creepy Crawlers get Militarized - As if insects weren’t unpleasant enough in their natural state, scientists have now devised a way to literally remote-control moths electronically, thus turning them into flying spy drones … if that doesn’t make your skin crawl, how about using them as the latest unmanned attack aircraft? A small payload of contact poison would easily do the job. Creepy crawlers never rang so true …

Need more evidence that we’re approaching a strange and mysterious future? Watch this video of a moth being controlled, in flight, by a computer.

Thanks to nerve probes stuck in the insect’s nerve cord, scientists were able to pass commands to the moth, who handled the difficult part of flying. The entire thing is a bit like fly by wire, where the moth makes sure that it stays afloat, while the computer gives it the direction that it wants the moth to fly in.