Pilots Soon To Be Unnecessary ! ! !

[Lead Sled]

Guys, our days are numbered. This report came across Avweb this morning...

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.

Take that you flight simmers.

'Sled

 

[FN FAL]

Guys, our days are numbered. This report came across Avweb this morning...

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.

Take that you flight simmers.

'Sled

RATS! I knew I went into the wrong career field!

Will they be studying a way to replace the FSDO guys with CATS?

 

[Jetz]

I know a few pilots who need a transplant

This is good news! There IS now hope for some of the Pilots I have flown with recently.

Wait, I'll bet those rats were, ah, female?

Yuk yuk.

 

[Swede]

I can see it now... Radical Islamic rat neurons.

#1FA: "Capt, the bundle of rat neurons in seat 2B has produced a box cutter and is holding Gloria hostage! Two more rat neuron bundles are charging up the center aisle!"

Capt: "Well do us a favor and stomp on them. We're busy talking about golf."