Are giant cannibal shrimp invading your neighborhood?

Tiger Shrimp make excellent eating - Christmas Lunch just wouldn't be the same without a big bowl of extra large Tiger Prawns on the table. Chances are that these escaped from a prawn farm and aer now establishing themselves.

And calling them cannibals is misleading as most shrimp are cannibalistic.

:p

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nanoboy said:
Tiger prawns? Yum yum. I see a business idea there: catch them in unregulated numbers and export them.
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Is there any available nanotechnology that we could use to build fleets of tiny shrimp-hunting robotic submarines at commercial scale?
 
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DavidBrown said:
Is there any available nanotechnology that we could us to build fleets of tiny shrimp-hunting robotic submarines at commercial scale?
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Sure! I'll even throw in the Eiffel Tower for free. I will need all the money for the R&D research upfront though. ;)

From what I understand, he who pays the piper calls the the tune. In other words, if the Department of Defence is funding nano-robot research, then expect them to be used for nefarious purposes... I mean to defend America. ;) If 'big oil' funds the research, then expect them to be used in oil exploration and recovery. If large pharmaceutical companies fund the research, expect them to be used to deliver drugs to the part of your body that really needs it - which will be great news because you wouldn't get the usual side-effects of drugs like nausea, headaches etc. It would be many years before the proprietary technology filters down to the level of environmentalists.

If, however, a wealthy conservation group funds the research, well, we are in business. That of course, will probably never happen. Does giraffe research have some spare cash? :D
 
nanoboy said:
Does giraffe research have some spare cash? :D
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Re: giraffe research and spare cash, the faulty premise here is "cash" as giraffe research is currently mostly held together with volunteer labor and spare bits of wire and tape.

Maybe we could get the French government to sell the Eiffel Tower and use the proceeds on nanotechnology research for repulsing tiger shrimp invasions. The European economy is in an unprecedented boom of good health, so I'm sure that they will generously fund our proposal:rolleyes:
 
DavidBrown said:
Re: giraffe research and spare cash, the faulty premise here is "cash" as giraffe research is currently mostly held together with volunteer labor and spare bits of wire and tape.

Maybe we could get the French government to sell the Eiffel Tower and use the proceeds on nanotechnology research for repulsing tiger shrimp invasions. The European economy is in an unprecedented boom of good health, so I'm sure that they will generously fund our proposal:rolleyes:
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The crippled British economy was happy to spend 50 million pounds on the royal wedding last year, so I doubt that we will get France to part with their national treasure. That's like asking America to spend less money on defence projects and more on conservation. :D

I read recently that Newt Gingrich is a zoo fanatic. Wildlife conservation might have been improved if he were President and we would have gotten funding for all those projects. As Obama said at the dinner over the weekend "there's still time Newt!" :D
 
DavidBrown said:
Cool! Now can they arm the subs with nano-anti-shrimp torpedoes?
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Yes they can arm them with torpedoes. However, I doubt that the torpedoes will be used for shrimp. :D There's a war on terror still raging, haven't you heard? :D People are scared of terrorists with bombs in their undies rather than shrimp. :cool:
 
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