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Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia

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Re: Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia

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So in your post to incorrect others on 'thats not how explosives work' you got absolutely everything wrong about how explosives work. Typical HN. > You wouldn’t ever give your enemy deliveries of repackagable charges. Where did you get this preposterous idea? Do you imagine a major military will send out it's soldiers to collect labdmines on purpose to dissasemble them and take out tiny amount of explosive? And after…

>Do you imagine a major military will send out it's soldiers to collect labdmines on purpose to dissasemble them and take out tiny amount of explosive? I literally said the complete opposite of that by saying the mines have to self-destruct. They still need to explode. Try another read of the original post. I worked with an EOD group in OIF. Where do you think IEDs come from? You think farmers and merchants are mixin…

'Where do you think IEDs come from? You think farmers and merchants are mixing ANFO in their huts?'

Tell me whwne I am wrong:

You don't lay down square miles of landmines in a conflict against insurents, i.e. Taliban. You only do area denial against real militaties.

In a conflict between any real militaties, like the recent Russia vs Ukraine, no-one is wasting their time making IEDs.

Re: Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia

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The rats are already mini, and have real intelligence unlike AI does. They also reproduce cheap. Mines are cheap and numerous, and anything that deals woth them had to be cheap

so, you are indirectly saying intelligent creature are cheaper than machine which uses AI ....

I am directly saying it, I can buy a rat for $10
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