When I was based at Coronado Island, my roommate was going into the program when he finished schooling.

@@That_Bender That's cool, and it is no more bizzare than training dogs to sniff out bombs if you think about it for a moment...

Wonderful idea. The rifling would be a b1tch.

I was honestly hoping it was a gun that fired pucks.

Anti-Turk also covered the Barbary pirates… It was a very serious problem at the time for sailing ships attacked by oared galleys.

Now, there's a possible project for his crowd: A recreation with better machining and metallurgy.

Gun Jesus don’t mess around

Dude is one of the most annoying KZfaqrs on this site.

I freaking love Ian from forgotten weapons

haha big fans of both😂

Depending on who you believe, the Puckle Gun was actually the influence for the Colt 45. Of course, Americans refuse to believe their great gun god stole the idea from someone else and instead insist that he thought of the idea all by himself. This is the same chap who funded his gun by selling soft drugs.

Thank you :). I appreciate the support and the kind comment :)

Does anyone else now measure time according to BP (Before Pandemic) and AP (After - or should I say DURING - Pandemic)?

@@ferociousgumby no no we're absolutely in After Pandemic lol and have been for quite some time. Despite the best efforts of folks in power to scare everyone into believing we're staring extinction in the face : p

@@jacobl6714 🙏

Yeah sure the videos are well made in almost every single way except one : whenever the script requires Simon to go look up how certain words/names are pronounced. Which you know is pretty important if all you have to do is read a fkn script properly.

many current inventions have a bedrock of failure. its crazy to look back on. i bet that trench digger had a huge contribution too.

It looks pretty interesting, but I don't see what the big dill is.

@@dialaskisel5929 yeah it doesn't seem kosher to me either.

The Puckle gun's problem, as absurd as it sounds, was the fact it was ahead of its time. With better metallurgy and machining it would have worked a lot better as we see with the Gatling gun and Colt revolver.

Puckel

“So long and thanks for the fish”.

Touche.

WE are the inventions. Dolphins invented US.😶 (no surrealist emoji!)

Octopi are maybe the most intelligent species of aquaritc life , equal to whales, dolphins , and porpoises . They have eight prehensile tentacles capabile of manipulating tools and weapons .

Thanks :)

The US program was shut down, but it was found the animals couldn't survive in the wild so they're still cared for by humans (I think some ended up in places like Seaworld, others not). Who knows what the Russians and Chinese are up to... Probably nothing good of course.

Heh. Finland.

The bat bombs actually worked. They escaped and burned down the buildings of the airfield they were being tested at. As far as the Tsunami bomb is concerned that exists too. All you need is a line of conventional nukes detonated at the right point a few miles offshore.

@@gordonlawrence1448 neither of these worked.

@@Caderynwolf the russians are making a crossover between nuclear sub and nuclear tipped torpedo for creating tsunamis

Eew

I need some Rotting Badger

I need some Rancid Polecat No.2. aftershave.

@@JohnDoe-vf2yo lmao

There was definitely LSD involved....ALLEGEDLY.

Wasnt she ' doing ' the dolphin? Then when they were separated the dolphin killed itself? Or am I confusing a couple stories? 🤔

snl did a bit on this, and it was. Odd. But funny I guess.

In places like Seaworld there's someone appointed to jack off the dolphins from time to time. Imagine how they put thát in a job description

@@mergru6371 Guess they are looking for "hands-on type of mentality".

Ian has a video with one Jonathan probably has access to another.

ohhhh, are you referring to the terrance mckenna experiments of trying to communicate with dolphins while on ketamine in deprivation tanks lol

@@jacobl6714 No, talkin about the television show Flipper. There was a female trainer who was very fond of her dolphin.

@@rogersheddy6414 Can you provide a source for this? Based on everything I could find, the main dolphin who played Flipper was a female and her trainer was a man. I think Jacob L is right, you seem to be confusing Peter with the one who played Flipper.

I think they’re referencing a psychology experiment where a female psychologist waterproofed her house and lived with a male dolphin in an attempt to see if she can teach it to understand human language. It became a huge ethical nightmare after she was caught pleasuring it - I learnt about it during undergrad

Colt had a revolving rifle and shotgun and Remington long barrelled and stocked version of their revolver (something not too uncommon in the 19th and early 20th centuries.) You can buy reproductions today. What killed the design's advantages is the self-contained cartridge: for long arms, lever-, slide-, and eventually auto-loading actions just were better. And you don't get a face full of powder or bullet shavings from a badly timed cylinder.

The South African striker revolver shotgun was put into service in 1993.

Rossi makes the circuit judge

@@davidhanson4909 TIMED? No. But, you certainly can, from misadjusted Cylinder Gap. And in the Days of the rifles you mention, guess what was common? It doesn't take a face-full of powder to take an eye out. I shot one of those recreations. The friend who bought it, promptly sold it. He was not impressed. Having my face sit ON the cylinder gap was not comforting. Imnsho, THEY ARE A CUTE TOY. But, for any caliber you might want a Revolver Rifle for, I myself would much prefer as a Pump-Action. Or Lever.

I know of two unclassified programs involving dolphins. The first was to locate stricken submarines. It failed because the dolphins couldn’t dive to the depth a submarine would be. The second was to locate underwater mines. This had the problem of once to mine was located, the dolphin had no way to communicate it’s location. It was suggested the planting of a transmitter, but that would involve the dolphin actually touching the mine (BOOM!). In the end, underwater drones proved more expedient. And dolphins are smart enough to know a raw deal when they see it.

@@andrewgillis3073 yeah, but remember that program for dolphin mine detection predates the availability of (semi) autonomous UUVs by several decades. For the longest time the only way to detect mines under water was to blast active sonar from your ship or submarine and hope you get a ping, then send in a diver to disable the thing. If a dolphin could both detect the mine AND plant a demolition charge on or near it that'd be so much more handy.

@@jwenting True. The use of UUVs was a huge step forward for underwater mine detection, and logistically a lot easier. I hope who ever came up with the idea got some credit.

Far more plausible it was a maskirovka intended to lull the Germans into a false sense of security. I mean, the Allies had no problems finding beaches that *weren't* teeming with civilians for pretty much every *pther* test involving a coastline.

Ooof that Red Alert throwback

The soviets (or Russians) went with belugas.... according to the Norwegians.

I didn't see a single PT belt either...

Preposterous. Who outranks _whom_.

"Bucker - us" 😂

Id be in for that. But what? Drinking games, History of alcohol, crimes committed while drunk?

@@ericasarat1834 crimes committed while drunk would be the biggest history book ever. He'll you could fill a large magazine just covering the 35 years I've been alive

@@ericasarat1834 Beard pong?

They worked *too* well, an accidental release caused significant damage to a USAAC base.

The people in charge of this had an idea that out of ten ideas, one would work. They did invent a lot of useful equipment and weapons. It was also noted that they had several ‘shadow’ projects that were there just to fool or confuse the enemy. The myth about carrots improving night vision is a good example. It was started to hide the fact that the British had radar on its night fighters.

Put it in a landing craft and aim it that way

The russians have dolphin pens near Chrimea, I understand they are there to counter frogmen. They also protect their arctic ports with trained whales, one even defected to norway during the cold war.

The Mutter Museum! Or has he already done that one?

What HASN'T he done? It's getting to be a real problem. He will soon run out of information, having covered everything in human history.

Lol, how tiny do you think I am?? I'm 5' 11" :D

So how tiny IS he? There is plenty of speculation.

Emoji makes no sense, just wanted to try it out.

You want to put a rocket inside a bomb! I like your thinking. - the ghost of the original inventor.

A time lapse of his beard growing over a period of, oh, say, seventeen days.

The problem was that bombing wasn’t very accurate until the mosquitoe. It would take a flight of a hundred planes to destroy one factory. The fact that the ‘dam busters’ required weeks of training shows this.

@@andrewgillis3073 wasn't some bombing still done by hand by pilots and copilot?

@@chrisyanover1777 For WW II, I'm not aware of that happening. There were cases of pilots and crew chiefs strapping unauthorized weapons to airplanes. In the case of the de Havilland Mosquito, the co-pilot/navigator released the bomb most of the time. One of the reasons that 613 squadron so effective was that they kept the aircrews together as much as they could. The airmen of this unit specialized in low level precision bombing. This was also true of 617 squadron, who flew Lancaster bombers.

What about incendiary bat bombs?

This was at least a guided weapon. Probably more clever than an AIM9L

What about the nuclear mine that was also a chicken coup?

@@Shad0wBoxxer Thermal nuclear rather than thermo nuclear. Hey someone has to keep it at or above room temperature. You' have just been voluntold. cluck cluck cluck. is chickin for well at least I don't need to try to get the Chieftain to start again.

@@ABrit-bt6ce thermo caused it was insulated LOL

Except his jawline

Nope. Guess not

The tadpole always knocks twice.

Ayohhhhh

There was a show I watched as a kid on Saturday mornings back in the "70's" called "Flipper", and one episode was about this exact subject. Dolphins can be trained to do just about anything that can be done in the water. GOD blessed them with quite the I.Q.!

So did Neville SHUTE lots of people?

Wonder if it would work now ?