What next? Opposable thumbs? 

posted by NanoCindy at 10:51PM CST on September 25

Humanity and I both say: Oh shit, nanoCindy beat us to the punch. I thought of exactly that article after reading the first sentence.

On a practical note, do people really think these killer dolphins have their poison dart harnesses on full time in the water? It must be a bitch to get it on and off of them but would you want to keep them armed at all times even during a hurricane? It's not like they didn't have time to lock down... 

posted by natedogg at 11:43PM CST on September 25

On an even more practical note--we have atomic weapons, sonar, radar, imaging technology I don't even know about, and a wide variety of underwater weapons and delivery systems, and we're training damn dolphins to be our weapons? The army is bizarre. 

posted by Valatan at 01:23AM CST on September 26

Just shows you how far a lot of the sensing and AI technologies still have to go. Do you find it bizarre that we used trained dogs to sniff for explosives and narcotics? 

posted by habcous at 10:30AM CST on September 26

I don't find that bizarre but I will give the bizarre tag to finding land mines by using bees and a frickin' laser beam. 

posted by natedogg at 11:21AM CST on September 26