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Practice of using biotic materials as robotic components

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[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)
  1. Obtain a spider
  2. Euthanize the spider using a cold temperature of around -4°C for 5-7 days
  3. Insert a 25 gauge hypodermic needle into the spider's cephalothorax (main body)
  4. Apply glue around the needle to form a seal and allow it to dry
  5. Connect a syringe or pump to the needle
  6. Extend the spider's legs by pumping air in

*Summarized synopsis of an Arachnid horror film, ca. 2026

Arachnid Centipede

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is a needle still hypodermic if it's going through crunchy exoskeleton instead of skin

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I would suppose so, insects still have an epidermis, though it's covered by layers of chitin.

[–] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sounds like a fine subject for a new Cronenberg movie. I wonder if the proponents would approve of using human bodies this way.

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago

There was a time when I didn't believe in evil

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

NGL, I read that as Necro-Biotics.

Then i considered antibiotics, which is more or less borrowed greek for anti-life which is kinda strange. so necro-biotics would be dead-life...which still scans in this case

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] burgermeister@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Funniest shit I've ever seen

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

Proponents respond that repurposing dead animals has been human practice for millennia

Fair enough, I suppose.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago
[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Spiders, needles and death. One ripe tomato for the marketers.