Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
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Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#2While I don't much care about the yachts and find the fact that the behaviour is spreading fascinating, my fear out of all this is people will start hurting the whales to try to get them to stop.
Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#3Just add a low voltage electric fence to 2 plates glued underwater at port and starboard. Salt water conducts, also Orca's conduct - some small current flow that will be repellant to the Orca's, but not harmful.
They do this to repel carp swimming upriver. one of those, with proper voltage and current limiting should be felt by an orca, but not harm the orca. A little experimentation will find a safe repellant level.
Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#4Just add a low voltage electric fence to 2 plates glued underwater at port and starboard. Salt water conducts, also Orca's conduct - some small current flow that will be repellant to the Orca's, but not harmful. They do this to repel carp swimming upriver. one of those, with proper voltage and current limiting should be felt by an orca, but not harm the orca. A little experimentation will find a safe repellant level.
BRB, passing these plans to the Orcas so they can start working on a work-around.
Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#5"Orca defends home near Scotland, suggesting they don't want to be pushed around anymore."
Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#6Just add a low voltage electric fence to 2 plates glued underwater at port and starboard. Salt water conducts, also Orca's conduct - some small current flow that will be repellant to the Orca's, but not harmful. They do this to repel carp swimming upriver. one of those, with proper voltage and current limiting should be felt by an orca, but not harm the orca. A little experimentation will find a safe repellant level.
BRB, passing these plans to the Orcas so they can start working on a work-around.
This is how the fins race starts
Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#7Any bets on what comes first: sapient AIs or sapient Orcas?
Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#8Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#9Just add a low voltage electric fence to 2 plates glued underwater at port and starboard. Salt water conducts, also Orca's conduct - some small current flow that will be repellant to the Orca's, but not harmful. They do this to repel carp swimming upriver. one of those, with proper voltage and current limiting should be felt by an orca, but not harm the orca. A little experimentation will find a safe repellant level.
orcas are really really big though (~6000lbs)? seems like this might not scale up… or if it did it might be deadly for smaller creatures?
Re: Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, suggesting the behavior may be spreading
#10Any bets on what comes first: sapient AIs or sapient Orcas?
I'd say that orcas are already sentient and have been for a long time.