These days you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided. This is it: https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/
Some skepticism seems warranted for official sources as well!
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#22These days you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided. This is it: https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/
Hah - I wish it was that easy to know what the truth is...
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#23Reminds me of the dogs the Russians trained to deliver bombs to the Germans. However, in the chaos of war, the dogs would get scared and run back to the owners with the bomb, killing the Russians.
That is a great example of irony.
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#24“ The Soviet Union trained dolphins for similar harbor protection.
After the fall of the USSR, the program was said to be in limbo, and the Soviet-trained dolphins are believed to have been sold to Iran in 2000.”
Ah, good old 50’s paranoia: when one enemy sunsets, the next one is built-up with the scraps of the former.
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#25This was the most fascinating thing about David Brin's "Startide Rising". And I never forgot that book in my life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startide_Rising
Amazing book. I think the concepts around the whole Uplift trilogy are great. The first one was a little tough for me to get through, but the next two are among my all time favorites. It's interesting to think about the potential of different species.
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#27These days you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided. This is it: https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/
I think I can believe most but that part is really weird:
> 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. When trained sea lions perform the same maneuver, they use a kind of handcuff with their mouths to attach the buoy
Imagine if we did this on land: monkeys or dogs handcuffing or tasing people! Surely they wouldn't be deployed against civilians and I know there have been exotic animals travelling with military (like bears) but training animals to fight humans with TOOLS looks incredibly hard.
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#29All these links and no 'Johnny Mnemonic' reference. Takes place in 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film)
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I can’t remember it including anything with dolphins.
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#30All these links and no 'Johnny Mnemonic' reference. Takes place in 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film)
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I can’t remember it including anything with dolphins.
The Dolphin is the only thing I remember and I saw it last when it came out in the cinema.