Marine Mammals Used To Fight Terrorism 131
pinkstuff writes "The Navy unveiled its terror-fighting marine mammals at a two-day homeland security and disaster preparedness exercise in California this week. From the article: 'A Navy seal — actually a sea lion — took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near San Francisco's AT&T Park. A dolphin quickly located a terrorist lurking in the black water before another sea lion, using a device carried in its mouth, cuffed the pretend saboteur's ankle so authorities could reel him in.' Queue the 'frickin lasers' jokes."
Re:Marine Life Kicks Ass (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Marine Life Kicks Ass (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Cute application, but why? (Score:2, Insightful)
This is a truly novel approach, but what kind of sophisticated aqua-terrorists are we genuinely preparing to encounter?
Prior to 9/11, people like you would ask the same questions about civilian aircraft. Maybe you should pull your head out of your ass and look towards all avenues of terrorism.
Re:locating terrorist (Score:2, Insightful)
Hey, at other places people pay a lot of money to swim with dolphins.
Re:This is not new (Score:3, Insightful)
> They regretted not using killer whales in the Hanoi harbor to exploit the Vietnamese cultural fear of large fish.
Cultural fear of large fish? I'm not Vietnamese and I think I'd have a better chance against an attacking great white shark than a killer whale.
Or at least a quicker death. See what killer whales get up to with their prey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xk0fc_FzUs [youtube.com]
Re:Marine Life Kicks Ass (Score:3, Insightful)
No, we need an Environmental Protection Agency that actually protects the environment instead of business interests. Non-mandatory pollution reduction programs instead of regulations - who knew only 2 businesses in the country would sign up for them and reduce pollution on their own without being legally obligated to do so?
People with functioning brains?
Re:*CUE* the 'frickin laser' jokes (Score:3, Insightful)
If enough of the 'frickin laser' jokes were made you would have a queue of them.
Re:Cute application, but why? (Score:3, Insightful)
One persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter. It all depends on your POV.