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In Cambodia, Rats Are Being Trained To Sniff Out Land Mines And Save Lifes
NPR - Parallels ^
| July 31, 2015
| Michael Sullivan
Posted on 07/16/2017 6:32:58 AM PDT by ptsal
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The intersection of high-tech and practical low cost solutions: Rat ranching for explosives.
It would be interesting to see these critters deployed at the border or in NYC and Chicago.
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07/16/2017 6:32:58 AM PDT
by
ptsal
To: ptsal
If only they could train lawyers to do this, people wouldn’t be as upset when a land mine killed a critter sniffing for it.
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:35:03 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Rurudyne
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:36:01 AM PDT
by
Mercat
(I know my redeemer lives.)
To: ptsal
I always thought that marching a flock of sheep across the suspected area would be effective. Think of the visual. It would be a Monty Python skit come alive.
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:37:55 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
To: ptsal
In Africa they do the same thing for initial detection of tuberculosis.
the patients all call cough onto a growth medium plate and in a couple days the rat races is by all of the plates lined up in a single-file.
The rat stops when it smells a positive plate.
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07/16/2017 6:40:01 AM PDT
by
gaijin
To: ptsal
“It would be interesting to see these critters deployed at the border or in NYC and Chicago.”
They’re already there. Rats have been in those cities for years. There’s the Clinton packs in New York. And the Obama packs in Chicago. Both have infested the world.
rwood
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:40:43 AM PDT
by
Redwood71
To: Don Corleone
Know a family of Cambodian out here. Multi gen. They have told me stories about farm animals and landmines. And sadly, people too. They visit there every year, bringing charity.
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:45:19 AM PDT
by
waterhill
(I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
To: Mercat
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:48:49 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: gaijin
That’s an interesting application.
I wonder if aflotoxin could be detected?
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posted on
07/16/2017 6:57:32 AM PDT
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: ptsal
“Rats?
Send Pelosi and Schumer. Tell them it’s Dancing With the Stars and that they are to do a jitterbug in every minefield.
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posted on
07/16/2017 7:02:49 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: ptsal
The Muslims just drive herds of goats and camels across minefields. It works just dandy for anti-personel mines.
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posted on
07/16/2017 7:07:23 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(long hours.)
To: gaijin
The father of South African golfer Gary Player worked in a gold mine, 10,000 feet underground. The miners used to share their lunch with the rates to keep them alive and in place. The rats could detect well in advance when a section of the mine was about to collapse. When the miners saw the rats fleeing, they scrambled onto the elevator to get out. Rats were like the “canary in the coal mine” except the rats usually survived.
To: ptsal
It would be interesting to see these critters deployed at the border or in NYC and Chicago. Sniffing for welfare cheats?
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posted on
07/16/2017 7:22:51 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: ptsal
These are not kitchen rats, but African giant pouched rats, also known as Gambian pouched rats, about 2 feet long from head to tail. That is a big rat!
My wife would faint.
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posted on
07/16/2017 7:26:21 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
To: MrEdd
“The Muslims just drive herds of goats and camels across minefields. It works just dandy for anti-personel mines.”
Except during the Iraq-Iranian War when Iran used mass formations of kids on motor bikes ... all was well since each kid had a medallion guaranteeing him a place in Paradise ...
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posted on
07/16/2017 7:31:55 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: ptsal
Here's a rat, being trained to sniff out muslims.
.
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posted on
07/16/2017 8:05:20 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
To: ptsal
In Cambodia, Rats Are Being Trained To Sniff Out Land Mines And Save Lives
Cummings: "Nancy's on the scent!"
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posted on
07/16/2017 8:09:07 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
To: ptsal
I remember Saddam Hussein doing it with young children during his interminable war with Iran.
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posted on
07/16/2017 8:38:02 AM PDT
by
Fungi
(Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
To: COBOL2Java
Another caption...
Nancy is going to pound some sense cents into those Republicans.
The GOPe taking cents, while the Demoncrats that gazillions.
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posted on
07/16/2017 9:33:29 AM PDT
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: ptsal
Maybe we need to use our ‘Dem. RATS’ to do the same...
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07/16/2017 9:41:49 AM PDT
by
HarleyLady27
( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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