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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by johnchristopher on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:30PM (#21428540)
Cool ! Can it be weaponized ? I mean, could it do better than some hypothetical tiny AI controlled robots in, e.g., earthquakes rescue missions ?
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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by grogenaut on Saturday November 02, 2019 @01:00PM (#21428723)
They had pidgeon guided bombs and missiles in ww2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

I laughed a bit when I saw the project head... Of course that's who.

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by mftrhu on Saturday November 02, 2019 @01:19PM (#21428831)
They were never built, but during that period people had absolutely wild ideas. Great Britain was considering building 10 kton nuclear mines, to be buried along the borders of Germany and to be detonated in case of a Soviet invasion.

Even if buried, those mines would just end up freezing, so some bright mind came up with the idea of putting live chicken inside them, to keep the temperature up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by lostlogin on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:15PM (#21429130)
The bat bombs were tested, with entirely predictable results. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by rz2k on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:04PM (#21429075)
Pigeons were also used for ocean search and rescue.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/02/Coast-Guard-clips-wi...

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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by 14 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:35PM (#21428583)
When this came up the other week I thought of little mice driving around the fields in their mini tractors plucking weeds out of the ground with no herbicides sprayed.
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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by anigbrowl on Saturday November 02, 2019 @12:57PM (#21428704)
That's not what weaponized means..
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Re:Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats by johnchristopher on Saturday November 09, 2019 @12:53PM (#21492958)
That was a joke...
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