Posted on 01/13/2012 8:11:23 PM PST by traumer
Couple of Seals wouldn't hurt, either.
General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, if I may speak freely, the Russkie talks big, but frankly, we think he’s short of know how. I mean, you just can’t expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys. And that’s not meant as an insult, Mr. Ambassador, I mean, you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he’s got. Hell, lookit look at all them them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn’t quit.
PS Commie dogs are more patriotic than American dolphins? Why, that’s nonsense. I’d put Flipper up against any of their canine cosmonauts any day of the week. (Snort)
I am not going to speculate on anything like revealing secret technology, Google does that all the time.
If we have drone aircraft we have drone dolphins.
Simple as that.
I feel better already...../sarc
Wasn't there an old US scheme involving pigeons cooped up in the nose cone trained to peck at a TV image of the target? Project Orcon?
I don’t see why we gotta protect the strait. Seems like all of the oil exporting countries that depend on it would have a vested interest in keeping it open. Why must they continually rely on us? Why can’t they police their own?
For once, let Iran’s arab neighbors put pressure on them!
Used to encounter them when I had my boat on the sandbar in Kanahoe Bay.
The control boat with the handlers was always a couple of hundred feet away, and we would wave. We all knew what the skinny was on it.
You go, Flipper !!!
How would you control them? Telepathically... ??
Well
Just once
Uh no twice
I think
The same way guard dogs are controlled, through training. Dolphins perform several missions, but are most commonly used to locate mines. They wear a small “pinger” that acts as the sounding device for a remotely operated sonar. They are also used to retrieve objects using devices they carry in their mouths. In an antipersonnel setting, they will swim around until they find a target, return to a buoy or boat and get the okie-dokie and the weapon. I don’t know if that system is currently deployed or operational, but it has been developed. Sealions perform many of the same duties.
Have the dolphins figured out how to avoid fishing nets yet?
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