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Title: Your flight skills could be replaced by a brain in a bowl
Post by: gofaster on October 28, 2004, 06:58:12 AM

This should be referenced in the MA immediately!

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Brain In A Bowl Flies Simulator
 Someone once said he could teach a monkey to fly but researchers at the University of Florida have taken it a quantum leap further. The biomedical team says it has a dish full of about 25,000 rat neurons that can keep a PC flight simulator on the straight and level. "It's as if the neurons control the stick in the aircraft, they can move it back and forth and left and right," Professor Thomas DeMarse told Wired News. Now, the researchers aren't explicitly looking to replace pilots with rat neurons ... at least not yet. DeMarse said the team needed something for their neurons to do so they could try to decode the "language" they use to communicate with one another. After a few first-flight jitters (we all have them, right?) the rat neurons got the hang of keeping the simulated F-22 straight and level. "Right now the process it's learning is very simplistic," said DeMarse. "It's basically making a decision about whether to move the stick to the left or to the right or forwards and backwards and it learns how much to push the stick depending upon how badly the aircraft is flying." Hmm. We know some pilots who haven't quite grasped those concepts, yet ...

"You fly like a bowl full of rat neurons!"
"I've seen a brain in a bowl do better ACM."
"Call UF and ask for their flight director."

The possibilities are endless.

Title: Your flight skills could be replaced by a brain in a bowl
Post by: Eagler on October 28, 2004, 07:00:41 AM

would have only taken about 10,000 Gator neurons :)

Title: Your flight skills could be replaced by a brain in a bowl
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on October 28, 2004, 07:12:04 AM

Beyond what it knows now, it just needs to be able to drop bombs while at the same time flying into the target itself.

Then it'd be ready to compete in the MA.
-SW

Title: Your flight skills could be replaced by a brain in a bowl
Post by: AWMac on October 28, 2004, 07:47:43 AM

Just one word......


"ROOKS"



:rofl

Title: Your flight skills could be replaced by a brain in a bowl
Post by: cpxxx on October 28, 2004, 12:46:48 PM

25,000 rat neurons in a bowl. Yep sounds like a typical Rook mission. :cool:

Title: Your flight skills could be replaced by a brain in a bowl
Post by: Flyboy on October 28, 2004, 12:56:08 PM

to put aside the jokes for a second..

thats pretty amazing stuff

Title: Your flight skills could be replaced by a brain in a bowl
Post by: slimm50 on October 28, 2004, 01:02:07 PM

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Originally posted by AWMac
Just one word......


"ROOKS"



:rofl

ROTFLMAO!

Title: Your flight skills could be replaced by a brain in a bowl
Post by: myelo on October 28, 2004, 01:06:21 PM

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Originally posted by Eagler
would have only taken about 10,000 Gator neurons :)

Yeah, but you would have to kill 20,000 gators to get that many neurons.