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    Elephant-Subduing Device Appears Inspired by Star Wars

    You Can Count Elephants By Just Using Acoustic Gear, So Drop That Poop

    Founder of Siebel Systems Attacked by a Rampaging Elephant

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/24/09

    In reply to Elephant-Subduing Device Appears Inspired by Star Wars
    i think the reason why the elephants are a danger to anyone is probably because they are captive and bossed around by puny humans all day. its like that guy who got killed by a bear on an ice rink... by an ice-skating bear. should we now devote some time and effort into figuring out how ot subdue ice skating bears... or would it perhaps be easier to simply not put fucking ice skates on bears?
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    Image of Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus
    11/24/09

    In reply to Elephant-Subduing Device Appears Inspired by Star Wars
    Let me put my actual real world experience into this. Angry elephants are not a big issue, poor management of elephants is. A bull elephant in musk is not to be trifled with and any good animal care taker knows this. You can control an elephant with just an ankus. The ankus should not be used to punish just to prod an dissuade. While I think this could have use as a last resort strategy, I am not sure I see many zoo's using this. As the article says this is not for your captive elephants right now it is being used with rogue elephants in more rural settings. Elephants are smart smarter then many people give them credit and that is often where things go wrong. Also elephants need the leader group existence and when the leader fails elephants loose direction and can panic.
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    11/24/09

    In reply to Elephant-Subduing Device Appears Inspired by Star Wars
    I forgot how they did it on Hoth. Let me go play any Star Wars game ever made to remind myself.
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    Image of Scratic Scratic
    11/24/09

    In reply to Elephant-Subduing Device Appears Inspired by Star Wars
    It's a shame that stingray killed Crocodile Dundee. He could have further developed his water-buffalo hypnotism to subdue pachaderm. Thank god we still have hypnotoads.
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    11/24/09

    @Scratic: "Tha's not a sting-ah. THAT'S a sting-ah!"
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/24/09

    @Scratic: My girlfriend and I fed and swam with stingrays in Grand Cayman a few months before Steve's death. Those floating pizzas looked so safe and harmless at the time...
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/24/09

    In reply to Elephant-Subduing Device Appears Inspired by Star Wars
    "The device is called the Violent Elephant Control Gear"

    I guess they didn't want anyone confused in the slightest about what their product does, but "P-9000 Pachyderm Paralyzer!!!" would have so much more potential.
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    Image of jjigen jjigen
    10/09/09

    In reply to You Can Count Elephants By Just Using Acoustic Gear, So Drop That Poop
    what's going on there? an elephant orgy?
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    10/09/09

    @jjigen: I could tell you, but this is a family blog, so any illicit description would have to be trunkated.
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    Image of Dr Durdon Dr Durdon
    09/04/09

    In reply to Founder of Siebel Systems Attacked by a Rampaging Elephant
    I have to use a Siebel system at work, and I hate hate HATE it. Who would pay for this? It's slow, unreliable, slow, picky about search words and soooo slow. Maybe the elephant was using it and it froze his browser up one too many times.
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    09/03/09

    In reply to Founder of Siebel Systems Attacked by a Rampaging Elephant
    Maybe he smelled like peanuts.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    09/03/09

    In reply to Founder of Siebel Systems Attacked by a Rampaging Elephant

    "This is the moment people! Now I know many of you thought it would never happen. Yet I insisted that we spend half an hour every morning training for it. Some of you thought I was mad, and others even transferred to another peanut factory. But now is the time...
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    09/03/09

    In reply to Founder of Siebel Systems Attacked by a Rampaging Elephant
    Gizmodo has found the secret to the perfect blog post.

    Something something something...McDonalds...Something something something...by Adam Frucci...
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    09/03/09

    In reply to Founder of Siebel Systems Attacked by a Rampaging Elephant
    My car was attacked by a moose when I was on vacation last week - how come I don't get an article?

    Just cuz I'm not a noted personality in the tech world, or the story isn't as interesting?

    STOP MAKING EXCUSES FRUCCI! IT WAS A REALLY BIG MOOSE!
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    09/03/09


    @Hiphopopotamus: EXHIBIT A
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    09/03/09

    In reply to Founder of Siebel Systems Attacked by a Rampaging Elephant
    "Where's your money now?
    I'm guessing sitting in a swiss account, making more money, waiting for him to recover, and then celebrate by using a small amount of it to buy something like the color blue, or the sun.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    09/03/09

    @badhatharry: Maybe while he's recovering he might develop some kind of game, like a Jump to Conclusions mat or something..
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    Image of Unspellable Unspellable
    09/03/09

    @badhatharry: "...the color blue..."

    Awesome.
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    Image of cmdrfire cmdrfire
    09/03/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Get it? It's a mat with conclusions you jump on!
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    08/17/09

    In reply to Amputee Elephant Walks Again Thanks to Incredibly Strong Artificial Limb
    OK, I'm gonna be the PETA hating jerk here for a second - but how many people in that same warzone could have gotten medical treatment, food, or even land mines removed from their backyard for the money that went into the R&D and production of this thing?

    It's a heartwarming story, but that is a very steep opportunity cost.
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    Image of Shivaran Shivaran
    08/17/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: Too bad humans are not an endangered species...

    I kind of understand your point but it's like saying : "Hey, let's just let all those animals die and suffer because money can be better used elsewhere for us humans".

    Moreover, challenges like this one are likely to help invent new techniques which can then be transposed for medical usage. And the funds were most likely risen from donations...
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    Image of Odin Odin
    08/17/09

    @Hiphopopotamus:
    A lot of money goes into seemingly useless things that seem to have little benefit for us. We do these things though because we learn from them. I bet the research that went into this is probably going to aid prostheis development for humans as well.
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    Image of wagnerrp wagnerrp
    08/17/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: The issue is that Motola is not some pet that sits in a zoo somewhere. She works in place of the heavy machinery we have for logging. The local people rely on her for their livelihood.
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    08/17/09

    @wagnerrp: Yeah, it's like repairing their living tractor. Not wasted money at all in terms of a benefit to humans, plus it benefits the elephant too. Win-win.
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    Image of witeowl witeowl
    08/16/09

    In reply to Amputee Elephant Walks Again Thanks to Incredibly Strong Artificial Limb
    Yeah, but are they going to let her participate in the Olympics? I mean, without that leg, she'll have quite a weight advantage over the other elephants.
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    Image of squishyalt squishyalt
    08/17/09

    @witeowl: Actually I think she'd qualify for the Paralympics.
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
    08/17/09

    @squishyalt: You're both wrong: the Pachydermalympics.
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    Image of Teh FuZz Teh FuZz
    08/16/09

    In reply to Amputee Elephant Walks Again Thanks to Incredibly Strong Artificial Limb

    This article failed to mention that this elephant was just a part of Wily's plan and that Protoman had to destroy it.
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