"Because pollinators are essential to plant growth, he said, 'if insects had not evolved this very improbable joint to flap their wings, the world would be a very different place, absent of flowering plants and familiar creatures like birds, bats -- and probably humans.'"
Hey, cool trivia there! And without humans, many of those other creatures might have a much better chance of continuing to live! Neat, huh?
The article goes on about the inevitable and exciting research into cool murder tools, but then bizarrely slips this paragraph in among a bunch of paragraphs completely unrelated to it:
"'Minority Report,' the 2002 dystopian film based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, featured a swarm of heat-seeking robotic spiders that sought to find the character played by Tom Cruise, who hid in a bathtub of ice water."
Did some reality-seeking robots slip that in there? Is it just writing-by-committee chaos? Or was it put there so that in a few years, when U.S. tax dollars are building similarly nasty toys, the Times can shout "Hey, we warned you!"
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