Domesticated Whales

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Domesticated Whales
Topic Started: Dec 1 2010, 12:25 PM (3,388 Views)
lamna	Dec 1 2010, 12:25 PM Post #1
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	For a long time I've been wondering if this would be possible. Perhaps Baleen whales could be domesticated. As you can hardly fill a trough with krill and get them to eat while you milk them, you could use electronic implants to help control them. The dairy ship sends out a low deep sounds attracting the whales in for milking and divers or ROVs hook the whales up to milking machines and you turn on the pleasure centre of their brains. After they have been drained you turn off the pleasure and the swim away to feed. Killer Whales or dolphins could be used as sheep dogs. I don't know how you'd kill a whale humanely for the meat though. Fire a cannon into the brain?
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Oceaniis	Dec 3 2010, 12:33 PM Post #16
Adolescent Posts: 369 Group: Members Member #181 Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology Nationality: Portugal	Flisch Dec 3 2010, 05:49 AM I think everyone does. In EU it had been changed to a specie Canis familiaris but Americans didn't agreed and kept as subspecie. Of course that with hormone treatment you could put anything lactating, even man so... And Sea Shepherd rules!!! (not Paul W.)



lamna	Dec 3 2010, 03:45 PM Post #17
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	But they're pirates.
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colddigger	Dec 3 2010, 03:54 PM Post #18
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	Well not everything, some male mammals lack the glands for it... And is the fat not used for anything? Whale oil comes back as a booming business...
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lamna	Dec 4 2010, 02:08 AM Post #19
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Lijke I said, it could be a valuable source of lubricants after the oil dries up.
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Spugpow	Dec 6 2010, 03:49 AM Post #20
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,025 Group: Members Member #389 Joined: Sep 20, 2010	Pretty sure chemical lubricants will be far cheaper than whale blubber come the oilpocalypse .
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Flisch	Dec 6 2010, 03:50 AM Post #21
Superhuman Posts: 3,118 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: May 28, 2008 Nationality: Terran	The rule of cool, man! Think of the cool!
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Spugpow	Dec 6 2010, 04:03 AM Post #22
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,025 Group: Members Member #389 Joined: Sep 20, 2010	Unfortunately, I don't consider returning to the dark ages when we killed whales by the millions for meat and oil cool .
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lamna	Dec 6 2010, 04:14 AM Post #23
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Does anyone know how intelligent baleen whales really are? Hippy types will insist they are as intelligent as us, and pro-whaling people will claim they are mindless fish. If they are no smarter than pigs then I've not ethical problem with killing them for meat and oil, if it can be humanely. Hence why I'm talking about farming and not sustainable hunting. Killing a whale at sea humanly seems impossible.
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Flisch	Dec 6 2010, 05:37 AM Post #24
Superhuman Posts: 3,118 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: May 28, 2008 Nationality: Terran	It's pretty racist to say "theyre stupid lets kill them".
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lamna	Dec 6 2010, 06:09 AM Post #25
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	It's not racist to access an animals intelligence to see whether it's ethical to eat them. Some people think killing anything is wrong, others think that if it's not human it's fair game. My limit is anything much smarter than a dog or a pig is for emergencies only. It's racist to discriminate against other races and ethnic groups. I think the term you're looking for is specist.
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Flisch	Dec 6 2010, 06:12 AM Post #26
Superhuman Posts: 3,118 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: May 28, 2008 Nationality: Terran	I'm just messing with you. <.< Also, it's probably intelligist or something, as it isn't based on species but intelligence, but whatever.
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lamna	Dec 6 2010, 12:23 PM Post #27
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	That sort of thing does not transmit well along the internet. It's just moral consistency to me.
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SIngemeister	Dec 6 2010, 01:01 PM Post #28
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colddigger	Dec 6 2010, 06:35 PM Post #29
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	If it can't hold conversation and isn't human it's fair game.
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Kamidio	Dec 6 2010, 08:38 PM Post #30
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