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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: karajorma on March 13, 2003, 05:15:02 am
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Just to prove that truth is stranger than fiction. For those that haven`t seen it
Clcik Here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2839155.stm)
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oh, man, just the threat of the embaresment of getting stoped by one of thouse would be enough to stop terrorsits deat in there tracks,
I mean how is that going to sound twenty years from now,"ya, I was going to run a dinggy packed with 500 pounds of C4 into a US cruser and die a martyr but a.. sea... lion... stoped me"
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That story just reminds me of this operational plan during WW2 to palce dead rats filled with a grenades over all Germany. These would then be used to destroy coal cellars. Another plan was to drop incendary soap, which the Germans were supposed to use and when it got wet (presumably) would go off in there faces. The best plan if thought was sending a German general a bottle of wine with an explosive in.
The whole thing, and I'm including the above news story, just smacks of a Roadrunner cartoon.
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I did read of an assasination attempt once which involved poisoned underwear :D
It really does sound like a cartoon plotline doesn`t it :)
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Where was it that Americans played the spice girls 24 hours a day at full blast with giant amplifiers as psychological warfare to the enemy? This is true, it happened. I just don't remember where...
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"Perhaps the most bizarre plan was when the US launched Project X-Ray in World War II - an attempt to attack Japan with bats carrying tiny satchels bearing incendiary devices.
The plan backfired when on a practice run the bats attacked the wrong target, and set fire to a military airfield in New Mexico. "
:lol:
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This is just like the dolphins and squids in RA2. :D
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Reminds me of the Penguin from Batman
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I know the most perfect way to FREAK the living **** out of the enemy if I had the chance. Id basically collect the most vile looking, black, non hairy, spiders, about an inch in diameter, with red eyes and multiply them by the millions. Then fly over the enemy target and drop the cargo. Being only one inch, they can easily fall down, using their webs as make shift parachutes (like spiders usually do).
Now think if you're that enemy, happily having lunch when suddenly out of the sky rains millions of black spiders, ugly spiders. Falling onto you, into your hair, climbing down you clothes. :eek::shaking:
Then as everyone is freaking out, send in the marines. :D
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Just have thousands of Scots Guards playing the pipes over the horizon.
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Meh, this is no news. The Pentagon has been strapping bombs to anything that couldn't argue for years and years. The sea lion one's a new one to me, but it also sounds like a really, really bad idea.
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Well I appears a severely underestimated America's creativity when it comes to screwing up nature.
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You know they don't actually strap bombs to them
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
You know they don't actually strap bombs to them
True, but that's not creative.
1000th post!
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Read the article. Three of the cases in that very one are pretty much that, and I've heard more.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Read the article. Three of the cases in that very one are pretty much that, and I've heard more.
I don't see where it says they use sea lions as live bombs, maybe I'm just missing it.
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They haven`t used sea lions as bombs but they've used bats to drop incendiaries and dolphins to plant mines so we aren`t exactly far off exploding sea lions. I guess they just hadn`t thought of it yet. :D
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Sea lions are waaay too expensive.
And if you think the bats were "dropping" the bombs or the dolphins weren't rather inextricably connected to the mines (at least in the first batch of the latter), you should read up more. That article makes it sound all cutesy and human-interest, so they kinda verbally skip around the fact that we're basically dealing with a biological guided grenade here.
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They still cost money, they aren't about to waste it by blowing them up
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Which is partly why lame plans like these usually get scrapped. Aside from the fact that, while it's perfectly okay to blow up people, if you blow up an animal by using it as the delivery system the animal rights people have a hissy fit and lobby Congress to... **** if I know what they want. But it works.
FYI, the bat thing ran something like this: During WWII the Army planned a sabotage system that basically involved releasing a lot of exploding bats over Japan- creating one hell of a lot of chaos and confusion, and propogating the explosions much more effectively than the normal gravity-based type of bomb does. The Army took over a cave full of some ten thousand Mexican freetailed bats, tied bombs to most of them, and put them on ice so they wouldn't get antsy or lost. After a while, the military decided to do a test drop, but the recently thawed bats weren't entirely de-hibernated yet, so some flew around and hit their targets, some just dropped straight down and died, and some got disoriented and flew to the local Army base, igniting a Jeep and a hangar.
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ya, the day we strap a bomb to a seal is the day PETA starts straping bombs to people
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
FYI, the bat thing ran something like this: During WWII the Army planned a sabotage system that basically involved releasing a lot of exploding bats over Japan- creating one hell of a lot of chaos and confusion, and propogating the explosions much more effectively than the normal gravity-based type of bomb does. The Army took over a cave full of some ten thousand Mexican freetailed bats, tied bombs to most of them, and put them on ice so they wouldn't get antsy or lost. After a while, the military decided to do a test drop, but the recently thawed bats weren't entirely de-hibernated yet, so some flew around and hit their targets, some just dropped straight down and died, and some got disoriented and flew to the local Army base, igniting a Jeep and a hangar. [/size]
:lol:
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Exploding sea lions... Exploding bats... Exploding dolphins... All bad and wrong by everyone in the world!
Exploding people... Always has an acceptable reason. :rolleyes:
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I didn`t know about the bats but some of the later dolphin plans didn`t result in the death of the dolphin IIRC. After all training dolphins is probably more expensive than sea lions even if they are smarter.
I notice no one cares about exploding camels (even though that one has been used in warfare more than the others)
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
They still cost money, they aren't about to waste it by blowing them up
Well, don't some of the more adanced guided bombs cost in the millions range, anyway?
Originally posted by Bobboau
ya, the day we strap a bomb to a seal is the day PETA starts straping bombs to people
The idea of strapping bombs to PETA is quite an appealing idea, though.....
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Originally posted by aldo_14
The idea of strapping bombs to PETA is quite an appealing idea, though.....
:nod: