Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Sending bears with parachutes to find Osama bin Laden

This has got to be the craziest, awesomest idea ever




Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden? 



That’s one suggestion the Pentagon has received from someone who noted, quite correctly, that a bear’s sense of smell is much more powerful than a bloodhound’s. 



“Overnight, Parachute some bears into areas [bin Laden] might be,” the innovator wrote. “Attempt to train bears to take off parachutes after landing, or use parachutes that self-destruct after landing.”

[http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=68700]

hats off to Thomas Ricks' bad ass Foreign Policy blog for tipping me off on this one

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