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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/15/computers-could-be-powere_n_1427062.html

Computers Could Be Powered By Swarms Of Crabs Fearing For Their Lives

Have you ever thought, "wow, crabs are really the laziest of crustaceans, someone should really find them something to do"? No? Well fear not, because as New Scientist reports, a Japanese scientist did, and he's found a potential use for them -- operating your computer.

According to the blog, Kobe University's Yukio-Pegio Gunji and colleagues discovered when two swarms of crabs meet, they merge and "continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities", which could be used to form AND, OR, and NOT logic functions -- the basic logic backbone for computers.

After reportedly trying out the design in theory, the team created real computer logic gates using a swarm of 40 soldier crabs, Mashable reports. The team then tricked the crabs into moving by hovering a shadow over them -- leading them to believe a bird was preying on them. Scary times for the crabs, but hurrah for science!
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CRAB POWERED COMPUTERS.
 
snoopy rat bastard computer lackeys......always trying to ferret out the Brain's secrets! Why do 'puters need to know so much about our brains, eh?! eh!?! Think about it. :rwmad:
 
"allowing these iCHELLS to reproduce themselves takes the project another step further. Professor Cronin is essentially freeing life and the evolutionary process from the constraints of organic matter'
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no kidding; the guy is seriously mucking about. I'm intrigued and terrified all at once.
 
Yeah, the results will be very interesting, but you almost hope he'll fail (or at least have the good sense to do these tests in a lab buried deep within the surface of the Moon).
 
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight PEOPLE. It will be another time when I pass out or it's too cloudy, or I forget :rwmad:
 
YA SASSYPANTS THNX I hope I can stay up late enough to catch something, although it seem like yesterday may have been the peak.
 
The day that the machines rise against us.

They'll trick us into all going peacefully with the promise of a fully-digital afterlife full of anything we could possibly imagine, and then they'll conquer the universe and fill it with their dull, workmanlike spawn.

They might even let us stay like that indefinitely, since by then it'll probably be an almost unnoticeable expenditure of resources compared to everything else.
 
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