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Universal Soldier: face-kicking cyborg technologies and micro drone insects
Decipher SciFi
English - June 19, 2018 07:45 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsNatural Sciences Science TV & Film Film Reviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Cyborgification
Remote-controlled cockroaches. Engineering cyborg cats with tape and servos. Search and rescue rats. What counts as a cyborg? Insects with eyebrows.
Non-cyborgification
Whirring servos and motors. Wearable technology and where to draw the line on cyborgs. The cyborg olympics. Determining the limits of human performance.
Thermoregulation
Mammalian heat regulation. Humans are the best distance runners AND car-pushers.
Pain
Pain response and learning. Pain and athletic performance. A PSA about injecting things int your heart - you don’t want a hole there. The best places in your body to randomly put holes.
Cyborg naiveté
But what is a penis anyway? Memory inhibition. Competitive eating. Binging and stomach elasticity. Competitive eating training.
Supersoldier Programs
Was it a success? Drugs make you a superhero.
Universal Soldier alternate ending: YouTube