Domesticated Whales

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Domesticated Whales
Topic Started: Dec 1 2010, 12:25 PM (3,386 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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colddigger	Dec 6 2010, 10:38 PM Post #31
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MitchBeard	Dec 7 2010, 02:00 AM Post #33
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Adman	Dec 7 2010, 05:24 AM Post #34
Totally not lamna Posts: 3,898 Group: Members Member #375 Joined: Sep 2, 2010 Gender: Male Nationality: The Great Atlantic Steppe Favorite Quote: “I dont leran from no one“ -Archeo	Fakey Dec 6 2010, 08:38 PM I'd eat human. Are you human or cannibalistic?
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lamna	Dec 11 2010, 01:19 PM Post #35
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Neither, he's Jötunn. But I'm sure he'd eat his own if there were any near him. Humans would make terrible animals to farm. Whales take a long time to mature, but you get a lot of meat out of it. With human in 18 years you would get between 80 and 60 pound of meat. With a sheep you get 135 pounds in 12 months. If you raided settlements every so often and captured humans to eat that might be practical, but raising humans as livestock is just bad economics. If you try to save money by getting them to do labouring you're going to make the meat tough and loose money when you sell them. Also it's morally repugnant or whatever.
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