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For those interested, they did something very similar in the 1990s with the goat population and killed something like 250,000 goats: https://allthatsinteresting
by tegansnyder 8y ago
For those interested, they did something very similar in the 1990s with the goat population and killed something like 250,000 goats:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/project-isabela https://allthatsinteresting.com/project-isabela
"A Judas goat was a female who would be captured from the wild, tagged with a GPS tracking device, and then released to find other goats, especially lovelorn males.
The sharpshooters would take to the air again, track the Judas goat, find her hidden companions and gun them down, always leaving the Judas goat alive so that the whole process would begin again. Track, slaughter, repeat. The team eventually used 900 Judas goats over the course of a couple of years."
- breischl 8y agoProbably gave those poor females a serious complex. Can you imagine how messed up you'd be if every time you approached someone of the opposite sex, they got shot from a helicopter?
- sizzzzlerz 8y agoI guess that's why I'm still single.
- slovette 8y agoI know these types of comments are frowned upon on HN, but this made me LOL. Nicely done.
- cwp 8y agoI think they must have been doing this on a smaller scale in the 80s as well. When I was a kid my dad was doing some work with the Ecuadorian park service, and I went on a goat hunt on Isabela. The park rangers killed a lot of goats, and we barbecued one of them on the beach.
- sametmax 8y agoAnd this is why I don't believe in uprisings and revolutions in modern societies anymore. As an individual, even if you can buy guns, you are not that far away from the goat compared to what tech and training current militaries have.
- behringer 8y agoBut humans aren't goats, even if they aren't in the military.
- trhway 8y agoFrom the POV of an alien civilization observing how humans have been screwing Earth ecosystem we as well may be just like those goats.
- AWildC182 8y agoLet's revisit this comment once the US leaves the middle east.
- sametmax 8y agoDoes it look like any local fighting in the middle east is winning ? Also, I've you looked at the body count on each sides ? And in the end, don't the USA have the control of the local natural resources exactly as they wanted to ?
- AWildC182 8y agoDoesn't look like anyone is winning really. If the military leaves right now, we'll probably just have ISIS 2.0 in a few years. Urban combat is really painful for all involved. If it was like shooting goats from a helicopter wouldn't the conflict be over already?
- sametmax 8y agoCounter terrorism is not the real reason there is a war here. Several countries in Europe fight terrorism, and they don't need to go to war. The american are still here because they benefit from it.
- pfisch 8y agoWinning a war and body counts are not the same thing. Even in vietnam the US had a good ratio in terms of killing Vietnamese vs allied deaths. That doesn’t mean the US was winning.