Pentagon mulling 'stealth sharks' to patrol the seas

[Judi Lynn]

Pentagon mulling 'stealth sharks' to patrol the seas

PARIS, March 1, 2006 (AFP) - The Pentagon is funding research into neural implants with the ultimate hope of turning sharks into "stealth spies" capable of gliding undetected through the ocean, the British weekly New Scientist says.

The research builds on experimental work to control animals by implanting tiny electrodes in their brain, which are then stimulated to induce a behavioural response.

"The Pentagon hopes to exploit sharks' natural ability to glide quietly through the water, sense delicate electrical gradients and follow chemical trails," says the report, carried in next Saturday's New Scientist.

"By remotely guiding the sharks' movements they hope to transform the animals into stealth spies, perhaps capable of following vessels without being spotted."
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http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=6386

[shrike]

1. F**kers really are crazy, aren't they?

I mean, what the f**k?

[Justin54B20L]

5. I mean really...

Haven't we all seen enough movies to know that ideas like these irrevocably turn out very bad for the team of researchers on the project, a hot shot team of U.S. Special Forces, a scantly clad beautiful woman, and a rugged protagonist?

[shrike]

28. A bright side

Maybe there'll be video, so that hetero males can enjoy the scantily-clad, beautiful woman.

[MiniMe]

16. Well, at least it will turn PETA against them nt

[notadmblnd]

35. Wasn't there a Saturday night Live skit

that involved sharks? Seems like they pretended to be pizza delivery guys...I don't know.. memory is old.. hell I'm old.

[saigon68]

36. LAND SHARKS by Chevy Chase

hilarious

[shrike]

39. Land sharks

Hilarious skit.

[converted_democrat]

42. It was Land Shark. n/t

Candygram..

[Theres-a]

44. Candygram!

[BushOut06]

2. Has nobody seen the movie Deep Blue Sea?

Why don't they go ahead and try to genetically enhance some Great White Sharks while they're at it? Maybe bring back the Megalodon - then they could use that as a weapon as well!

[Brooklyn Michael]

25. Where do you think they got the idea?

They've OD'd on so much of their own propaganda, they now really DO think real life works just like the movies...

[speedingbullet]

38. Another Fish Movie

Wasn't there a Don Knots movie where he was a fish helping the US Navy?

[petronius]

40. That would be The Incredible Mr. Limpet...

I guess it can be done after all!

[AllegroRondo]

3. How long till they try this on people?

[0007]

24. I think they are already. junior just dresses like a human being

but the rest of him is a dead give-way.

[Chiyo-chichi]

4. Can we put frickin' laser beams on their heads?

If I didn't say it, someone else would have.

[bleedingheart]

7. and their home base would be a penis shaped submarine

bwahahahahah

[Drum]

18. don't you mean

"laser" ?

[mikeytherat]

33. Damn it! I didn't see your post!

And made the same comment downstream.

mikey_the_rat

[sui generis]

6. more smoke and mirrors

see, they're really doing stuff to keep us safe!!!!

You'll see, just as soon as we finish building that resort on Mars.

[4morewars]

8. I wonder how many $million$ this will cost us ?

These repukes are so strong on defense, I feel safer already.

[leveymg]

9. Yes, but can they be trained to do flips in the air?

This report is coming out because a lot of people are opposed to turning Flipper into a torpedo.

"No, ma'am, that was a shark we blew up next to the hull of that Venezualan tanker, not a a dolphin."

Nobody likes sharks, much.

[Jemmons]

10. There is also the story about a remote controlled chimp that learned

to shave and dress. Toilet training was no problem but they did have some trouble keeping the animals behavior under control though: it would steal things, lie and cheat no matter what task it was given. They tried to teach it to ride a bike too, but that was a disaster.

[havocmom]

15. We have a winaha!

Bravo!

[sui generis]

17. I have some before and after pics

[Ryano42]

11. Secretary of Defense...

Your tax dollars at work.

[Roland99]

12. They could save a ton of money using mutant sea bass.

:rofl:

[Orsino]

27. Yep. Or go all out...

...and get sharks with frickin' laser beams in their heads.

No halfway measures!

[JohnyCanuck]

13. This would likely be just one of the preliminary steps

before installing neural implants in humans.

"We need a program of psychosurgery and political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.

"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.

"Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain."

Dr. Jose Delgado (MKULTRA experimenter who demonstrated a radio-controlled bull on CNN in 1985)
Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School
Congressional Record No. 26, Vol. 118, February 24, 1974

As quoted in Brainwashing America by Dr. Norman Livergood

[jus_the_facts]

30. I'd guess that's where the Pentagon put those *lost* billions.....

....and they've been doing this for two decades already. :tinfoilhat: :shrug:

[Drum]

14. very appropriate!

what other creature most resembles them?

[MrPrax]

19. Just when you thought it was safe...

to go back into the water!

Jaws was scary and so some FrankenShark would be doubleplus scary...hope it works out better than:

Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.

...

Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1577753,00.html

Luckily some people aren't fooled...my fav Iraq quote:



'Flipper's fucked, mate. The dolphins have had all
this amazing publicity but as soon as they put one in
the water it shot through. There's a war going on and
Flipper goes AWOL.
If you put one to work in Sydney
Harbour it would mark a million things because it
can't tell the difference between a washing machine
and a mine. The bottom line, mate, is it's a fish.
It's also a very smart fish so how do you know it
hasn't just gone off for a feed instead of working and
then thought, "Hang on, I'd better mark a few things
or they won't give me any fish when I get back".'

- An Australian Navy diver on the use of dolphins in
mine clearing operations in the port city of Umm Qasr

[Mythsaje]

21. "It's a fish."

Wrong Answer, idiot. It's NOT a fish. It's a proto-sentient (if not fully sentient) mammal. If it doesn't know a bomb from a washing machine it's because it can't tell one machine from another.

[Rose Siding]

20. Sure! Then, to track the shark....

they can invent radar and sonar and global spy satellites.

[Mythsaje]

22. This falls under

the "what the hell are they thinking" category.

Remote control sharks? Methinks some folks are just bored with the toys they already have and want new, more interesting toys.

Pinheads.

[MidwestTransplant]

23. Wonder what the human application of these devices are.

[VegasWolf]

26. Gee, now we are even outsourcing lawyers! nt

[bobthedrummer]

29. With the BFEE, how are close approximations to a goal rewarded?

Freedom is on the march. So is mind control via perception management.

Cyberkinetics links
http://www.cyberkineticsinc.com/content/technology/platformtechnology.jsp#Top

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/050328/cykn.ob8-k.html

Remote Behavioral Influence Technology Evidence by John J. McMurtrey
http://www.datafilter.com/mc/remoteBehavioralInfluence.html

Decoding Minds, Foiling Adversaries by Sharon Berry
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/decoding.htm

Perception Management
http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/perception.htm#

Previous "research and development" via the Third Reich
http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/nazidocs.txt

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet13/brief13/tab_f/br13f3.txt

http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/docs.html

[jus_the_facts]

31. Sounds JUST like the book 'White Shark' by Peter Benchley.....

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
We never thought it was really safe to go back in the water, and Benchley's new eco-thriller exploits the fear he engendered in Jaws . Here the menace is a creature spawned by a demented Nazi scientist, which has hatched 50 years later in a quiet Atlantic fishing community. Simon Chase has dropped his society wife and infant son, Max, to finish school and start the Osprey Island Marine Institute near Long Island's North Shore. Shark studies are his speciality. Chase fears the responsibilities of fatherhood, but when Max, now 12, visits, the two get on famously and soon Max has the run of the institute. Then, a crew tracking a pregnant Great White named Jaws spot a porpoise with a claw gash in its tail and see massive kills of sea life; when they then observe the same claw marks on Jaws herself, Chase knows "there's something out there." Enter Dr. Amanda Macy, who studies whales using sea lions with strapped-on video cameras. Macy leases the institute, both solving Chase's money woes and making first contact with the unknown menace. Soon Macy's camera gets a shot of a steel-clawed hand grappling with a sea lion. After additional bloody encounters at sea, the beast comes ashore, eventually to threaten Amanda and Max. Benchley's writing is fast-paced, and he alternates the tension with poignant family scenes and ample amounts of marine ecology

[mikeytherat]

32. But, will they have friggin' lasers attached to their heads?

If not, what's the point?

Perhaps they are working on an alternate program involving ill-tempered sea bass.

mikey_the_rat

[sakabatou]

34. Reminds me of Animorphs

#15 I believe.

[underpants]

37. . ........ . ........................with lasers

[loudsue]

41. They are fucking with nature again. And if anyone hasn't noticed,

there are certain things about nature that have started fighting back.

Elephants in Africa and India have started becoming dangerous to humans, where before, elephants served as transporters and helpers of humans.

Bees in the western hemisphere, who have been cross-bread with african bees, and "killer bees" are now spreading daily further North across the U.S.

Fire ants from s. america are also spreading throughout the U.S.

Nature is out of balance due to human "meddling", and there's payback, pure and simple, in the long run. Those who don't see it coming have their heads buried in the sand.

When all the doctor Strangelove types are running the most well-funded (OUR TAX DOLLARS), ominous military industrial complex in the world, we're bound to have problems.

All our "missing" trillions of dollars of tax money are ending up, apparently, in Area 51.

This is so far beyond "unacceptable" that it just boggles the mind. Leave the sharks & dolphins out of it, and leave the rest of nature alone, Bush. You've put together the most inhuman, and inhumane, team of megalomaniacs in the history of the world, and given them a blank check.

And your REPUBLICAN loonies in places of power are enabling every move. The whole thing is criminal, sinister, and EVIL.

This is life under REPUBLICAN rule.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Akoto]

43. Are they ill-tempered?

[superconnected]

45. so instead of flipper they're screwing with jaws.

Since their killer chimp experiment worked, I guess it's to be expected.