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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 57 points 3 days ago

Next step is to figure out a way for the bird to pilot the drone, like those vehicles driven by mice or goldfish

[-] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also. I have a brilliant idea to stop ivory poaching. Let's take those machine guns from a Ukrainian ground drone:

Then mount them on some large saddle that can be fitted on an elephant's back. Then rig up some mechanism for the elephant to control the gun. Perhaps some sort of large eyepiece.

We won't need to actively track down poachers. The elephants will be more than capable of dealing with the poachers themselves! With modern technology, we could literally give machine guns to elephants!

[-] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 14 points 3 days ago

The gritty realistic version of the already gritty Elephantmen comic.

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[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

To be fair, if I had to choose an nonhuman animal to control a machine gun, it’d probably be an elephant.

[-] Darohan@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

We briefly did missiles guided by pigeons, so it can't be that hard, right?

[-] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 7 points 3 days ago

that bird needs to ratatouille that drone

or like whatever

this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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