{"id":6312,"date":"2012-10-13T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:36:52","slug":"killer-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/killer-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/101312_0714_KillerDolph1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Alert_2\">Red Alert 2<\/a>, a computer game, players were allowed to train killer dolphins to attack their enemy&#8217;s units. As it turns out this wasn&#8217;t too far removed from reality. Robert Beckhusen took a look at all the different ways that navies have (allegedly) used dolphins for combat purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ukraine is said to be experimenting with knives and guns attached to the heads of dolphins.<\/li>\n<li>The country is also teaching the dolphins to search for mines and to mark them with buoys.<\/li>\n<li>The US has experimented with trained dolphins that would prevent enemy combatants from landing on the shore.<\/li>\n<li>The Russians, being aware of all the ways that their enemies have trained dolphins, have taught their commandos to fight dolphins in hand-to-hand (hand-to-fin?) combat.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just dolphins that get to have all the fun. America uses Sea Lions that attach clamps to potential threats which can then be reeled in like fish.<\/li>\n<li>Countries have to be careful though. Dolphins aren&#8217;t the best at differentiating between enemy and friendly. Or to put it in the US navy&#8217;s words: &#8220;it would not be wise to give that kind of decision authority to an animal&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about dolphins that can inject CO2 and times when they have actually been used over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/10\/dolphins\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/10\/dolphins\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Red Alert 2, a computer game, players were allowed to train killer dolphins to attack their enemy&#8217;s units. As it turns out this wasn&#8217;t too far removed from reality. Robert Beckhusen took a look at all the different ways that navies have (allegedly) used dolphins for combat purposes: Ukraine is said to be experimenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/101312_0714_KillerDolph1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7401,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions\/7401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}