Remote-control Fruit Flies

[Derleth]

No, Esprix has not left the ground. This is, if anything, more disturbing.

Scientists can now stimulate fruit fly neurons and make them jump, walk, flap their wings, and fly.

@The Associated Press

Even headless flies took flight when researchers stimulated the correct neurons, according to the study, published in the April 7 issue of the journal Cell.

Arise, my zombie terrorist minions! Fly down the gullets of infidels and up the noses of harlots! Buzz menacingly around the Great Satan’s fruit!

TIME FLIES LIKE AN ARROW, FRUIT FLIES LIKE A BANANA, BUT ZOMBIE FLIES LIKE VENGANCE! BWA-HA-HA!

Ahem. Sorry.

The excuse they give for this wonderfully grotesque experiment is that it will help us determine the cells associated with aggression, overeating, and psychiatric disorders. Excuse me while I reread The Terminal Man.

In other news, mice appear to be next.

[Jenaroph]

@Derleth

TIME FLIES LIKE AN ARROW, FRUIT FLIES LIKE A BANANA, BUT ZOMBIE FLIES LIKE VENGANCE! BWA-HA-HA!

Fruit flies may like a banana, but NO, THEY’RE GOING TO EAT THE APPLE INSTEAD! EAT IT MY MINIONS! EAT IT, WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT! BWAAAA HA HA HAAAA!

That’s incredibly creepy.

[Derleth]

@Jenaroph

Fruit flies may like a banana, but NO, THEY’RE GOING TO EAT THE APPLE INSTEAD! EAT IT MY MINIONS! EAT IT, WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT! BWAAAA HA HA HAAAA!

That’s incredibly creepy.

Apparently, this thread is about as zombified as those flies. Doesn’t anyone else long for the day when he, too, has utter control over the buzzing minions? Doesn’t anyone else’s heart hearken to the notion of being a technocratic God-King to hordes of flying monsters?

You are all weird, and shall be sore harassed when I apply this technology to horseflies and wasps.