Well this particular headline would make Dr Evil really proud, recently folks at University of Boston devised a way to take your common household shark and turn it into a remote-controllable spy capable of gathering critical military intelligence such as targeted military objects beneath the ocean. And sure enough, Boston University's Jelle Atema and his team learned how to crudely guide these kings of the sea using either electrical stimulation to mimic their neural signals or implanting little gadgets attached to their noses that release delicious-smelling squid juice on cue. With this delicious break through (for the shark most part) , the marine biologists still have a long way to go before they fully understand how sharks use odor stimuli to navigate, and their funding ran out before any more progress could be made at the University. Despite the lack of support from Uncle Sam, however, Atema is eager to raise fresh funding in order to leverage his achievements into useful civilian applications; remote-control sharks could potentially be used to track fish populations, changes in ocean temperature, or chemical spills.
Just considered the potential for various abuses in this application, I mean trusting your intelligence gathering to a gadget that could possibly having you for dinner? Obviously folks at Boston University have not yet seen Deep Blue Sea,the freaking sharks ate Samuel L Jackson ! Plus whatever happened to laser on the shark's head ? I guess that would be the main reason DARPA pulled the plug on the project, if you going to turn this top predator of the sea into a drone give them some laser !
Also how are you going to destroy them if your enemy got a hold of your drone sharks? I guess calling animal control to harpoon your spy is out of the question. If you want my opinion they should starting thinking of putting a tomahawk missile as a deterrent method.
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