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Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile
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#122Well, I'm disappointed that they don't have "frikkin lasers" on their heads.
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#123This, together the news that North Korea also has weaponized marine mammals, makes me more saddened than from the usual dismal news we hear. Even the primal innocent are being roped into our primate rivalries. It gets even worse, as each side in such an umderwater war will blast away every cetacean it detects, just in case.
Is there something about cetaceans that saddens more than canidae, columbidae, equidae, or "sapiens?"
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
The submarine might burrow itself down into the Mariana Trench and then set them all off at the same time. This would open a crack in the ocean floor, draining the ocean. I’m studying how these things work where this guy went to school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
Uh where is all this hypothetical water going in this drain.
Where's the ballistic missile sub that isn't crushed by the pressure long before it gets to the depth of the Marianas trench?
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#125This, together the news that North Korea also has weaponized marine mammals, makes me more saddened than from the usual dismal news we hear. Even the primal innocent are being roped into our primate rivalries. It gets even worse, as each side in such an umderwater war will blast away every cetacean it detects, just in case.
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what's your opinion of say, horses used in olden times (heck till about WW-I, quite extensively) in battle ?
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#126> For protection against enemy divers, dolphins will swim up to the infiltrator, bump into them and place a buoy device on their back or a limb using their mouth.
I need to see this in action. A dolphin shows up and cuffs you??
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#127"For protection against enemy divers, dolphins will swim up to the infiltrator, bump into them and place a buoy device on their back or a limb using their mouth. The buoy then drags the outed diver to the surface for easy capture." I mean come on, "enemy divers" will just kill the dolphins or avoid contact with them..
I think you are overestimating how well a diver can maenouver under water in comparison to a dolphin.
But we should also not underestimate the ability of the enemy to train dolphins.
It would be hard to send an strike team of just dolphins but I imagine a strike team of both humans and dolphins trained to fend of the defending dolphins and protect the divers would stand a chance.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
No doubt surreal, but a single sub destroy the world? That piqued my interest so took a quick look and found an article [1]. This article states that "even a single vessel [submarine] could reduce as many as 288 city-sized targets into radioactive ash in less than 30 minutes." Later in the article they say that the Ohio class is capable of carrying up to 24 UGM-133 Trident II D5 submarine launched ballistic missiles.…
I don’t think they meant literally destroy the Earth. Nothing we have could possibly do that. But it could easily destroy our world here on Earth. I have to imagine the world as we know it would cease to exist after such an attack. Everything we take for granted today would probably be gone pretty quickly, the collapse of civilization in much of the world. It’s a fun bit of research you did, but I think it’s disingen…
Funny story, I'm not sure that's true. If by the earth, you mean the land and not the whole planet, there's some very interesting ways man could flood the whole thing.
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#129I guess this is the precursor to "Cetacean Ops" in Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cetacean_Ops
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#130This isn't exactly a secret or new information... it was pretty well known when I lived on the peninsula 10+ years ago (thus the username, Poulsbohemian...). There's a state park right near the Hood Canal bridge where it isn't uncommon to watch the submarines come and go in and out of the canal. Always a bit surreal to push your kids on the swings while watching a first strike weapon capable of destroying the world p…
Second strike weapon. It is supposed to be able to survive someone else's first strike. First strike weapons can't survive someone else's first strike. It's part of the whole "assured destruction" thing: doesn't matter if you hit us first, you're still going to end up a self lit parking lot afterwards.