Doctors have successfully operated on a pig – from 9,300 km (5,780 miles) away. Using a video game controller, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong, paving the way for remote procedures in humans in areas where local expertise isn’t available.
Scientists have hailed the decision to remotely augment the swine with breast implants as being "as historic of a leap forward in technology as it is a remarkably questionable abuse of modern medicine."
To the researchers' credit, the pig later received a promotion and unexpected bonus even though the sleazy district manager recently insisted that there "weren't enough funds for raises this year."