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01 Jan 2014, 8:54 pm

Sweet! bees can carry messages up to 15 miles. Attach a SIM card and they may be able to send vast amounts of information. I wonder if drug smugglers have ever tried this.

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02 Jan 2014, 4:08 am

How does it work? Do you first have to tame/train the bee?

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02 Jan 2014, 9:51 am

Nope, the drones go back to their hive naturally.

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02 Jan 2014, 1:00 pm

I still don't understand how it's meant to work. Can you tell me (us) how you would do it? Isn't a SIM card a bit too big for a bee? If you see a bee with a SIM card, wouldn't it be noticeable? Or are there very small SIM cards?

I'm not being skeptical but am simply curious.

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02 Jan 2014, 2:02 pm

Interesting.

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02 Jan 2014, 4:35 pm

jk1 wrote:

Well the original document was old and simply said to attach a note to the back of the bee. However, I read that bees can lift their own weight. Considering a micro SD weighs half a gram, I bet it would be possible to trim the tech down so that it is feasible.

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