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Kernow

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Pentagon scientists are planning to turn sharks into "stealth spies" capable of tracking vessels undetected, a British magazine has reported.

They want to remotely control the sharks by implanting electrodes in their brains, The New Scientist says.

It says the aim is "to exploit sharks' natural ability to glide through the water, sense delicate electrical gradients and follow chemical trails".

Full article here

:eek: soon they'll be making sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads :p ;)
 
anything with 'fricken lazer beams' rocks.

creating monster sharks does not rock. i would have to say i'm against this.
 
lol seriously what a strange plan ... remote controlled sharks ? looks like somebody in the pentagon doesn't know where to put all that extra money
 
takao said:
lol seriously what a strange plan ... remote controlled sharks ? looks like somebody in the pentagon doesn't know where to put all that extra money


i don't think there is any extra money. i think they just want an excuse to inflate the budget even more.
 
As Steve Zizzou would say, "The dolphins are suppose to be intelligent although I've never seen any evidence of it."

This article reminds me of a couple of months back when scientists could control a cockroach using the same methods. They could make it walk left, right, forward and jump backwards.

jon
 
They're already using dolphins so it's the next logical step.
Can't say I'd like to be the one putting in these things though :eek:
Deep Blue Sea?
 
The US navy has acoustic signalling towers capable of sending sonar signals to a shark up to 300km (187 miles) away, the magazine says.
Okay, so are they going to be used in coastal areas? I could have sworn we already had something that does the same task. I can't remember though...



Oh yeah, the
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My first impression:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0149261


My second impression:
They would probably kill tons of sharks by swimming them into places that they can't survive in...places that the shark knows to stay out of on its own, but humans know nothing about.
 
Shark mind control? I'm against this because I'm against this sort of animal cruelty. Other types are ok, but not this kind! :mad: No seriously, they shouldn't be able to plant things in the brains of animals and try to take advantage of them. There would be a massive uproar if they did this to humans, but I don't see why it's ok if we use sharks.
 
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