[HN Gopher] Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel's Canon
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       Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel's Canon
        
       Author : tomrod
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-05-03 21:00 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | k310 wrote:
       | Aw, get a tiny piezo speaker instead. We don't use frog's legs as
       | activators any more, since Galvani.
        
       | mystraline wrote:
       | Yuck.
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       | Torturing insects to make worse-than-MIDI music is gross.
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       | Like, I dunno, record lots of cicada sounds and SIMULATE it?
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       | These researchers should be ashamed of themselves. And it wasn't
       | other-life-saving reasons, but shitty music.
        
         | debugnik wrote:
         | They do claim to have a better motive, but it's a fairly weak
         | one:
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         | > with the idea that cyborg cicadas might one day be used to
         | transmit warning messages during emergencies
        
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