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It's neither a bird nor a plane, but a winged microchip as small as a grain of sand that can be carried by the wind as it monitors such things as pollution levels or the spread of airborne diseases.

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They’re great flying in your eyes

Scientists: Microplastics are ruining the planet! These assholes: Hold my side rule!

How do I get off this ride?

I'm even smaller

Oh come on. You know it'll be used to monitor all those people who've been vaxxd by tracking the nanytes in their brains. Anyone interested in foil hat?

Can’t wait until I get one of these in my eye

Buying a car is expensive due to lack of chips, anti-Vaxers pretend to be scared of the 5G chip, and the amount of metadata we create is growing exponentially. I just think we may want to table this for a decade or two. Let the dust settle before we kick up more.

Let's see how far we can shove these up the food chain.

“Population Surveillance”?! Come’on seriously?! Out of all the use cases and ways to describe this technology this is how you choose to describe it?

So they've never read Michael Crichton. Article also doesn't mention any method to clean the environment of these devices. We've got the smartest people on earth doing the dumbest things in human history.

Why must NPR sensationalize and imply for the sake of click bait what could be a human advancement by attaching negative or fearful words of insinuation? NPR knows well the word 'Environmental' could have easily been used over 'Population' in that caption!

More distraction..

Yeah, this has bad idea written all over it. Basically their idea is to create clouds of robots that go wherever the wind takes them. Small enough to be inhaled or ingested, but metal so bodies can't process them.

The conspiracists will have a field day with this one.

I see the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation” has finally come to fruition

Why must NPR sensationalize and imply for the sake of click bait what could be a human advancement by attaching negative or fearful words of insinuation? NPR knows well the word 'Environmental' could have just been easily been used over 'Population in the caption!'

Qanon about to lose its mind.

That’s why we have a shortage of microchips…

Great, as if the conspiracy nut jobs need more fuel…

Pilot to copilot: ‘microchips.’

ah yes, lets just make tiny, metallic pollution tk monitor pollution i see nothing wrong with inhaling a bunch of abrasive, metalic objects. Nothing ever caused bronchiolitis obliterans.

Or it can be injected into your body so that Bill Gates can track your every move while you're watching Netflix for 11 hours a day and eating pizza rolls.

Oh boy

Would like to see an environmental impact report. Otherwise... pass.

Uh oh..... the MAGA folks will call this prima favor evidence.

On the bright side, maybe this will get the covidiots to finally start wearing masks!

'The tiny microfliers, whose development by engineers at Northwestern University was detailed in an article published by Nature this week, are being billed as the smallest-ever human-made flying structures.' Alma mater ;-)

And if we ingest them in windy conditions if the size of a grain of sand, like when at the beach?

Oh great 😒 I can here the anti-vaxxers “I told you so” now.

birds and bats will die from this

Next on Newsmax: “Flying microchips are injecting you with vaccines!”

Wait wut?

sorry boss, can't come to work, the microplastics in my burrito this morning are feeling extra flighty in my gut right now

Kind of like the Covid lipids we can fog out bat caves with right!

What could possibly go wrong

Will birds /animals eat it did someone bother to do a study on how it might impact wildlife

before the Karens arrive - no, these institutions are not wasting their billions of dollars in research to track you slomping to starbucks to see how many pumps of pumpkin spiced syrup you get 😊

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