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Primitive superstitious cultures still do stupid stuff like buy
rhino horns to make their little wieners bigger or enjoy
trinkets carved out of endangered species parts.
I suggest tranquilizing these animals and cutting their
valuable
horns and tusks off before the poachers can get to them.
I
know they use these for survival but they're pretty useless
against their main threat which is poachers. In fact, it's the
reason they're endangered.
Secondly, on the supply side, set our best scientists, or at
least Max, to making a fake horn / tusk grown in a lab or
otherwise synthesized so as to be indistinguishable from the
real thing.
Flood the market with millions of tons of this faux ivory /
horn
stuff such that the price is driven down to nothing and
never
let it rise again.
3D Fake rhino horn
http://www.snopes.c...ino-horn-developed/
[AusCan531, Mar 27 2017]
SADM
https://en.wikipedi...Demolition_Munition
Small enough to fit in fake rhino [8th of 7, Mar 28 2017]
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" Psst ... Interested in some authentic faux rhino horn? " |
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" I heard the synthetic stuff is more powerful than the organic ... " |
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I previously suggested "synthetic" horn labeled as such with a
warning that it's more potent and may result in mammoth
wiener syndrome. |
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Baked [Link]. Conservation groups aren't in favour,
apparently. Personally I think it's a technique well worth
exploring. |
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The "tranq and cut" is WKTE. |
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What's needed, shirley, is fake bullets? |
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Baked. Also, preemptively dehorning the rhinos doesn't
save the rhinos because the
poachers kill them anyway to avoid having to waste
effort tracking them for no reward in the future. |
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//...preemptively dehorning the rhinos doesn't save the rhinos because the poachers kill them anyway to avoid having to waste effort tracking them for no reward in the future.// |
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What we need here is an honest signal.
In addition to replacing the horn with a bright red plastic horn, the rhino rangers should attach rhino-shoes - each with a stencil on the base. The footprints of docked animals would then make it clear that tracking them for the horn is a waste of time. |
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There's never a paraceratherium about when you need one. |
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Just curious, has anybody in China or another country where
they believe in this nonsense ever tried a public education
program? "Rhino horn doesn't make your junk bigger, it just
kills rhinos." |
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//Just curious, has anybody in China or another country where they believe in this nonsense ever tried a public education program?// |
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a) I don't think they care. Education is hard at the best of times. And there's a lot of them to educate.
b) Do we know for a fact that it doesn't work? |
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If it's really just keratin, then making fake rhino horn could be as easy as clipping some fingernails, or perhaps compressing some blond hair. We probably don't have to be too stringent about an exact chemical match if we're selling onto the black market. |
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It might be easier just to sell them subsidised viagra. |
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Perhaps a bit of Viagra in the fake rhino horn would make it more effective than the real thing, and help to put the poachers out of business. |
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I think the same approach to the panda is what as needed.
No self-respecting Chinese would dare harm a panda. It is
their national pride and joy. We need to promote cute cuddly
rhinos and elephants as the pride an joy of Africa. |
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Maybe rhinos as diplomatic gifts to mainland China from
nations where they're native? |
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Another indictment of anything "ancient Chinese" or "herbal". |
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The witchcraft of our time. |
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I was hoping the 'Plus Live Removal' was an explosive device
that took out the poacher. |
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A trojan rhino is what we need. Filled with ninjas dressed in
African savannah khaki. |
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... or a modestly-sized gadget - nothing fancy, maybe a kiloton. |
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So we actually trained guys who presumably volunteered
to: |
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1- Be parachuted behind enemy lines with a back pack that
has a...
2- Nuclear bomb in it.
3- Set its detonation timer and then...
4- Swim out into the ocean to hopefully be picked up by a
submarine that would find them somehow before...
5- The very pissed off enemy sent out boats to find the
guys who just nuked them. |
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// we actually trained guys // |
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It's hard to nail down the worst bit of the woolly thinking behind the concept, which falls into the same "Errr, WHAT ?" category as the Soviet WWII Dog Mine, the British Navy's Exploding Magnetic Fish, and the US Pigeon Bomb. |
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Does the fault lie with the undoubtedly brave but somewhat ill-advised volunteers, or the strategists and senior commanders who view backpack nukes as a realistic proposition for actual field deployment ? Answers on a postcard, please ... |
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There is, from some points of view, a horrible problem with the technology. These devices are tiny. Not only that, they're very easy to make, because they're simple (not crude - far from it) and almost all of the components can just be stored in crates (probably stencilled "TRACTOR PARTS" in big black letters), quite safely and without deterioration, for decades. All that's needed is to install the fissile core, which doesn't require very much material. |
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If you have the raw material to make cores, and the machinery to do it, they can be turned out alarmingly quickly, ready for immediate use. |
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It's all very well to dismantle the big strategic weapons systems, but many little devices can still do an awful lot of damage. |
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::Contrary to popular belief, the market for rhino horn is not largely driven by Chinese. Rather, Vietnamese are currently the biggest consumers of rhino horn and Vietnamese demand drives most of the poaching which has shot up to record levels::
-- wikipedia rhinocerous article |
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And is 8th feeling sorry for animals in warfare? |
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//...It's hard to nail down the worst bit of the woolly thinking behind the concept, which falls into the same "Errr, WHAT ?" category as the Soviet WWII Dog Mine, the British Navy's Exploding Magnetic Fish, and the US Pigeon Bomb.// |
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New naming scheme for atomic weapons: |
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<100ton yield : barrel of monkeys
100-1 kiloton yield : cat out of bag
1-10 kiloton yield : cows come home
10-100 kiloton yield : headless chicken
100 - 1000 kiloton yield : dog eat dog
1 - 10 megaton yield : gift horse
>10 megton yield : can of worms |
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That deserves its own idea posting Loris. |
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