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Why is it "so nonsensically stupid and absurd"? This was an era before you could just deploy a tiny quad copter. In WW2 we used live bats in bombs to start fire
by mrguyorama 3y ago
Why is it "so nonsensically stupid and absurd"? This was an era before you could just deploy a tiny quad copter. In WW2 we used live bats in bombs to start fires. We taught certain birds to peck TV screens to guide missiles. We tried to teach dogs to find land mines and dive under tanks so we could explode them. We thought of using live chickens to keep nuclear land mines warm for long enough to be effective.
There was an era where "lets make a small animal do it" was the technology of the day, and it overlapped with "lets turn everything into a listening device for the [soviet|american] embassy"
- throwanem 3y agoYes, and aside from predating the CIA thing by two decades, none of those other projects produced anything worth a damn either. That includes the strict subset that made it so far as an attempt at implementation - and I note also none of the projects you list involved cats, famously the least biddable among animals common in both household and farmstead. Even Skinner was more sensible than that! So I suppose I have to thank you for making such a strong argument in support, however unintentionally.