Stealth Sharks to Patrol the High Seas

dylanduck writes ""Imagine getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through the ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of a scent." That's what the Pentagon wants to do, says New Scientist. By remotely guiding the sharks' movements using a newly designed neural implant, the military hope to transform the animals into stealth spies."

Comments

Lasers...

[thesnarky1]

All the sharks need now is lasers, and we'll be all set!

Re:Lasers...

[pvt_medic]

eh, you might have better luck with ill tempered mutant sea-bass

Wonderful

[slavemowgli]

Ah, man: never encumbered by second thoughts about exploiting animals for warfare. Sometimes, I really think "homo arrogans" would be more appropriate (and often quite literally, actually) than "homo sapiens".

Re:Wonderful

[Wyatt Earp]

Well actually, Man is encumbered by second thoughts about using animals for warfare, at least the United States has a clear record of caring for thier war animals, honoring thier deaths and caring for them.

""Thousands and thousands of dogs have given their lives for their handlers," said John Burnam, president of the Vietnam Dog Handlers Association and author of Dog Tags of Courage, a book detailing his experience as a handler in Vietnam. "They should be honored for their bravery and courage. A national memorial will honor all dogs in all wars."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/07 25_020725_wardogs.html

"One such hero pigeon, "President Wilson," died in June 1929. During the Meuse-Argonne offensive, "President Wilson" flew twenty-five miles in as many minutes under heavy machine gun and artillery fire with a shattered leg and a badly wounded breast.

Found dead at the age of eleven, he was stuffed, mounted, and donated to the Smithsonian Institution.

The last of the World War heroes, "Mocker," died at Monmouth in June 1937. Badly wounded, Mocker homed from the vicinity of Beaumont France on September 12, 1918 with a message giving the exact location of enemy heavy artillery batteries."

http://www.monmouth.army.mil/monmessg/newmonmsg/se p022005/m35pigeons.htm

http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mam mals/
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mam mals/veterinary.html

This is what I want as an american.

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

As an American, I don't want lower taxes, better public transportation, or *gasp* national health care. No, I want to connect to sharks with VNC. What a fucking country.

Re:This is what I want as an american.

[svelgen]

Further stats from a recent Economist article. The US is up to 16% of
its GDP spent on health care in 2004 (more if you count the tax break
US firms get for offering health care coverage to their employees).
Canada spends just under 10% of its GDP on health care and gets better
health outcomes (e.g. longevity). Of that 16% of GDP in the US, the
government picks up over 6% for the elderly, poor and veterans (and pays
inflated prices set by the "for profit" sector).

Health care inflation outstrips the general inflation figure in almost
all advanced countries. So every nation has a problem, the US just has
a relatively bigger one.

The US's neighbours and friends can sleep a little sounder at night
knowing that if the US had an efficient health care system, it would
have 6% more of its GDP to spend on foreign adventures.

BTW There has been a spike in shark attacks on Australian beaches this
summer. Could there be a connection?