Post by Prisonner Of Today on May 13, 2008 1:25:21 GMT -5
padreromero said:
NO2?You mean N20?
The US actually came perilously close to training an army of killer fire-bearing bats in WWII, if I remember my history correctly, this is probably the strangest idea anyone has yet offered me.
I was actually considering fiddling with algae in the ocean as a means of kickstarting/kickstopping(?) the evaporation that hurricanes feed off...my big problem is that almost all storm systems require rapid cooling at some part of the storm, and rapid cooling of big masses of air is damn hard.
EDIT:
You were right, NO2 is the atmosphere-scrambling gas, N20 is laughing gas...
shame on me
First time looking at this topic, and I stopped reading here.
They did have this plan where cylinders of some sort would be attached to bats, and the bats would be released in mass numbers against Japanese cities.
Because many of the Japanese houses were made of wood and such, the bats would all hurry to find roosts, and after a set amount of time (30 minutes I believe) all these fire things would end up going off, and huge fires would start all over.
The project was close to being completed, but was dropped because the atomic bomb was seen as a more expedient alternative.
Project X-Ray.
Strangely enough, it was somewhat successful. The bats were mexican free-tailed bats, who enjoy perching on things. The scientists obviously didn't think much about this, because they strapped the firebombs on them, dropped them out of a plane, and burnt down their own facility when the bats returned to it to land. I don't think anyone was killed (except the bats of course).
