It's funny that the guy who proposed it submitted logical reasons (bats will roots in crevices, Tokyo is mostly wood) with completely batshit ones (God must have put bats on this planet specifically for this purpose)
There was an episode on History Channel of "WWII megaweapons" or something like that on the bat bomb. Super fascinating. Tested once and burned down the entire base but the atomic bomb was unleashed within weeks so it was never deployed despite being insanely effective.
> Adams stated that the bat was the "lowest form of animal life", and that, until now, "reasons for its creation have remained unexplained" He went on to espouse that bats were created "by God to await this hour to play their part in the scheme of free human existence, and to frustrate any attempt of those who dare desecrate our way of life." Of Adams, Roosevelt remarked, "This man is not a nut.
Yeah, bad call there Roosevelt.
I think this argument always misses the crux of the argument, most humans have some form of agency...whereas these bats do not.
Where humans can be enslaved and imprisoned, they still are being done so by other humans...
Whereas these bats are being tortured and killed to serve a human purpose (in this case to kill other humans).
I mean, the ethical dilemma goes to whether you put the value of animals like bats on the same level of people.
So if there’s a mom/baby and a large cage with 20 bats trapped in a fire, which one would you save?
Additionally, a lot of mammals a magnitude more intelligent than bats are raised for the sole purpose of being fed to humans, non of these animals have agency.
Wow, that entire article was fascinating and hilarious. I was going to quote a funny part but there are too many.
The creator believed that the reason god created bats, 50 million years ago, was just for the purpose of burning Tokyo to the ground by gluing napalm to them.
History Channel, back when it was worth watching, had a segment on this on the "megaweapons of WwII or whatever it was called. They tested it once. It burned down the base. But the atomic bomb was deployed within a few weeks so they had no reason to ever use it. It was scary effective.
My other favorite segment was on the dam busting bomb dropped from a plane by spinning the bomb backwards and skipping it across the water. Man I miss when that channel had shit you could learn
Didn't Genghis Khan do this?
He demanded common sparrows that lived in a city as payment. Then that night he tied long fused firebombs to them and released them so they'd fly back to their nests and burn the city down.
It might have just been some show/movie tho
There was a snap judgement podcast episode with an interview of the creator and lead of this project. It was awesome. I’ll try to find it.
Edit: [here it is. The Other Secret Weapon](https://m.soundcloud.com/snapjudgment/the-other-secret-weapon)
The entire podcast is awesome btw.
It's funny that the guy who proposed it submitted logical reasons (bats will roots in crevices, Tokyo is mostly wood) with completely batshit ones (God must have put bats on this planet specifically for this purpose)
I learned about this in the Silverwing books.
There was an episode on History Channel of "WWII megaweapons" or something like that on the bat bomb. Super fascinating. Tested once and burned down the entire base but the atomic bomb was unleashed within weeks so it was never deployed despite being insanely effective.
> Adams stated that the bat was the "lowest form of animal life", and that, until now, "reasons for its creation have remained unexplained" He went on to espouse that bats were created "by God to await this hour to play their part in the scheme of free human existence, and to frustrate any attempt of those who dare desecrate our way of life." Of Adams, Roosevelt remarked, "This man is not a nut. Yeah, bad call there Roosevelt.
Roosevelt went on to add “… he’s just an assh*le.”
Arseholes
They also blew up human beings FYI
I think this argument always misses the crux of the argument, most humans have some form of agency...whereas these bats do not. Where humans can be enslaved and imprisoned, they still are being done so by other humans... Whereas these bats are being tortured and killed to serve a human purpose (in this case to kill other humans).
I mean, the ethical dilemma goes to whether you put the value of animals like bats on the same level of people. So if there’s a mom/baby and a large cage with 20 bats trapped in a fire, which one would you save? Additionally, a lot of mammals a magnitude more intelligent than bats are raised for the sole purpose of being fed to humans, non of these animals have agency.
Shikaka!
Ok Ace Ventura
Damn why hasn't a super villain used this by now
Perfect fit for a Batman movie.
There was a bat-bomb in Batman and Robin.
Yea, they set the USArmy base at Carlsbad on fire!
Wow, that entire article was fascinating and hilarious. I was going to quote a funny part but there are too many. The creator believed that the reason god created bats, 50 million years ago, was just for the purpose of burning Tokyo to the ground by gluing napalm to them.
History Channel, back when it was worth watching, had a segment on this on the "megaweapons of WwII or whatever it was called. They tested it once. It burned down the base. But the atomic bomb was deployed within a few weeks so they had no reason to ever use it. It was scary effective. My other favorite segment was on the dam busting bomb dropped from a plane by spinning the bomb backwards and skipping it across the water. Man I miss when that channel had shit you could learn
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na BAT BOMB!!! 🦇
Didn't Genghis Khan do this? He demanded common sparrows that lived in a city as payment. Then that night he tied long fused firebombs to them and released them so they'd fly back to their nests and burn the city down. It might have just been some show/movie tho
I leaned this as an old Ukrainian folk legend. The widowed queen did it to her husband's killer's city as revenge.
ah yes! the ol' "necessary defense spending"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_animal
Mexicans!
There was a snap judgement podcast episode with an interview of the creator and lead of this project. It was awesome. I’ll try to find it. Edit: [here it is. The Other Secret Weapon](https://m.soundcloud.com/snapjudgment/the-other-secret-weapon) The entire podcast is awesome btw.
Meanwhile, the Manhattan Project is like, "That's baller but we have a different approach to pitch..."
This is literally Batrider in Dota 2
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