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   6 Article: 23329 of soc.culture.nordic<br>
   7 From: stigs@stud.cs.uit.no (Stig-Lennart Soerensen)<br>
   8 Subject: CYBER-WHALING<br>
   9 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 19:00:02
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  11 <H1>CYBER-WHALIN</H1>
  12 <H2>- A SHORT ESSAY ON THE FUTURE OF WHALING -</H2>
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  14 Greetings fellow readers of soc.culture.nordic. In this article
  15 I'll try to explain some of the future (and history) of whaling and
  16 its consequences for Norway as a nation.<P>
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  18 <H2>MODERN WEAPONS IMPLEMENTED INTO WHALING</H2>
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  20 Today the most common used weapon to assasinate/terminate a whale
  21 with, is the harpoon. Now this very cruel/unspohisticated weapon is
  22 soon to be exchanged with modern weaponry. Norways defence industry in
  23 co-operation with Pentagon contractors, has created several ingenious
  24 new weapons for the massmurder/hunting.
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  26 <LI>Gatling Gun mounted on the bow of the ship is connected to a
  27   sophisticated HUD display at the brigde, enabling the skipper to
  28   'fire away' when he gets a lock-on to the whale.
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  30 <LI>Vulcan Assault Gun, a fierce and effective weapon used in the
  31   Vietnam war by Phantoms and ground-troops, which fires some
  32   3.000 rounds of 7.62 ammunation each minute, is able to
  33   fell a whale within 60 seconds. And sink a Greenpeace ship as well
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  35 <LI>Mark 18 S.O.T (Special Offensice Torpedo) with a 500 kg conventional
  36   warhead, delievers a quick and effective blow to the whale,
  37   unfortunately tearing the whale to little tiny, weenie shreeds
  38   of meat.
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  40 <LI>TOW's (anti-tank rockets) is also able to kick some if the whale
  41   hasnt hit the deck yet.
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  44 So a future norwegian whaling ship will be some 1,000 feet long,
  45 carry a crew of some 3,500 men and women, and will be equipped with
  46 the latest in offensive and defensive weapons technology. This
  47 includes sonar, mini-subs, radars, marines, infra/ultra/heat detectors,
  48 and choppers.<P>
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  50 The Norwegian Ministry of Fishing, is hoping that by the year 2010,
  51 Norway shall have a fleet of some 150 OWS (Offensive Whaling Ships).
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  53 <H2>RESEARCH HISTORY</H2>
  54 <DL>
  55 <DT>1612
  56 <DD>Whaling starts with sailing boats<P>
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  58 <DT>1893
  59 <DD>Someone invents the modern harpoon.<P>
  60
  61 <DT>1939
  62 <DD>Second World war breaks out, germans uses trained whales to lay
  63      mines outside the coast of Norway and to carry german troops to
  64      Norwegian soil. Later, whales sinks many norwegians ships. <P>
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  66 <DT>1945
  67 <DD>World War ends. Nazi-whales either harsly punished or executed.
  68      Whaling starts up again. Nazi-whale fugitives flee to the
  69      South Atlantic.<P>
  70
  71 <DT>1950
  72 <DD>Norway (in cooperation with USA) nuked a herd of whales. This
  73      very effective weapon prove successfull in killing a large number
  74      of animals. Whale-meat trade rise. <P>
  75
  76 <DT>1955
  77 <DD>Trade in whale-meat comes almost to a halt, after research shoves
  78      that whales nuked are seriously contaminated by radiation. Sweden
  79      suffer a large scandal as it shows that large number of swedish
  80      school-children has been force-feed with whale-meat.<P>
  81
  82 <DT>1963
  83 <DD>Napalm used for the first and last time. Proves unsuccesfull.<P>
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  85 <DT>1965
  86 <DD>Atomic subs used in the hunting for whales. <P>
  87
  88 <DT>1970
  89 <DD>Sweden shocked by large drop-out figures from high-school.
  90      National IQ reduced.<P>
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  92 <DT>1973
  93 <DD>Whale attack on small fishing-wessels increase. Since 1923,
  94      45,000 norwegians has been killed by whales. Norwegian goverment
  95      decide to increase hunting and other offensive measures against
  96      this threat.<P>
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  98 <DT>1981
  99 <DD>Bloodthirsty whales eat up a school-ship with 300 toddlers.
 100      Massive man-hunt for the whales responsible. Ends with shoot-out
 101      in the north-atlantic. Several norwegian destroyers sunk and the
 102      USS Nimitz (leased for the occasion) suffers damage as she is
 103      hit by twenty kamikaze whales. But we got the whales. Public
 104      festivities for the heroes, yet the day is marred by the sorrow
 105      of the parents.<P>
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 107 <DT>1986
 108 <DD>Norway joins the US in the SDI research. Combat satelites proves
 109      effective in targetting, firing upon and destroying whales.
 110      By the year 1991, Norway has 30 Combat Satelites in orbit. The
 111      norwegian shuttle proves indispensiable. <P>
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 113 <DT>1992
 114 <DD>3 whales killed in the assasination attempt at the Kings Ship.
 115      King unharmed, but special forces troops suffers casaulties.
 116      First POW. He is after gruelling three weeks released in the
 117      exchange for Snyrft-ok-Torsk, the worst whale terrorist ever.
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 120 <H2>FUTURE PROJECTS</H2>
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 123 <DT>1997
 124 <DD>Large Scale Sonar Detectors will be mounted on several locations
 125      across the Atlantic Ocean, guarded by Marines.
 126      LSSD mission is to listen in for any whale-attack
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 128 <DT>2001
 129 <DD>Pulsar Laser Cannons will be obligatory weapons for every fishing
 130      ships of Norway. Whales dont discriminate between innocent
 131      fishers or whalers.
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 133 <DT>2023
 134 <DD>North-sea will be emptied of water.
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 137 <H2>IMPLICATIONS FOR NORWAY AS A NATION.</H2>
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 139 As one can understand from the text above, whaling has just begun.
 140 It will be a large part of norwegian state income in the next century
 141 and the money earned will go to fifty/fifty to research/domestic
 142 target groups. <P>
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 144 If the foreign pressure to stop the whaling increases, the norwegian
 145 pressure to continue whaling will increase as well. Its doubtfull that
 146 whaling will stop this or the next millenium. Because it brings in to
 147 much money for that.
 148 <!%%Author><ADDRESS>Stig-Lennart Sørensen - stigs@stud.cs.uit.no</ADDRESS><!%%EndAuthor>
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