PlainJaneDoe
Verified expert in neuroscience
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Exactly. It is brilliant and on the cutting edge of research. It's so hard for searchers to find people, we all know that.
Now imagine letting loose a bunch of carrion-seeking flies with small gps enabled chips attached to them and viewing them on a gps screen. They would congregate around carrion. Then you could go to the fly hot spot or hot spots where they are congregating to see what they are targeting.
It's a great idea for finding remains. Flies are cheap and plentiful, they don't need to be trained like dogs, and they could be used at different possible sites easily. The GPS chips are getting cheaper every day- they have to be very small for the fly to handle them though. That would seem to me to be the major hurdle.
That's really, really cool.
I have to say, after the way I've seen the defense treat scientists, I would not wanna talk about my data with any of them. The scientists called by the SAs - they blatantly dissed. Then they clearly did their own experts no favors. Booo! :waitasec: