- Signatures: 1,495
- Goal: 1,000
- Deadline: 10-16-2006
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The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding a research project which involves implanting electrodes in sharks' brains - for the purpose of using these animals as underwater spies.
A neural probe has been developed that would decode the sharks' brain signals and give "researchers" a means to remotely manipulate the sharks. By exploiting the sharks' natural ability to sense electrical gradients and chemical trails, the Pentagon would use the sharks to target or follow sea vessels.
More than 100 million sharks are killed each year for sport, food, so-called medicine, research and souvenirs. At a rate faster than sharks can reproduce. If too many sharks in one area are killed, the shark population may never return to normal levels.
The depletion of sharks from the world's oceans will lead to an unhealthy increase or rapid decline of other species.
Please help prevent further exploitation of these majestic animals. By signing this petition, you will also send a message to other research groups that are currently developing implants to monitor and control other animals.
Petition created May 16, 2006.
Sent October 18, 2006. THANK YOU ALL!
A neural probe has been developed that would decode the sharks' brain signals and give "researchers" a means to remotely manipulate the sharks. By exploiting the sharks' natural ability to sense electrical gradients and chemical trails, the Pentagon would use the sharks to target or follow sea vessels.
More than 100 million sharks are killed each year for sport, food, so-called medicine, research and souvenirs. At a rate faster than sharks can reproduce. If too many sharks in one area are killed, the shark population may never return to normal levels.
The depletion of sharks from the world's oceans will lead to an unhealthy increase or rapid decline of other species.
Please help prevent further exploitation of these majestic animals. By signing this petition, you will also send a message to other research groups that are currently developing implants to monitor and control other animals.
Petition created May 16, 2006.
Sent October 18, 2006. THANK YOU ALL!
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Country | Why do you believe this project is wrong? | Picture | Report |
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| 1,497 | 8:53 pm PST, Dec 16 | Ms. | Alice Mellish | New Zealand |  |
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| 1,496 | 5:22 pm PDT, Sep 14 | Dr. | John Anderson | United States | This certainly is abuse of nature in its most prefound example. Not only this, but the wholesale killing of these creatures only out of fear and ignorance has reached epidemic proportions. An animal having survived this long could be wiped off the face of the earth in only afew decades. Every time I hear of another creature gone extinct, I feel a great loss has been visited on the world. How many more due to mankind's greed? | |
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| 1,495 | 4:23 am PDT, Aug 22 | Mr. | Panagiotis Rigopoulos | Greece | |
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| 1,494 | 5:32 am PDT, Jun 4 | Ms. | Annelies Ooms | Belgium | |
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| 1,493 | 11:43 am PDT, May 29 | Ms. | Michele Cabot | United States | |
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| 1,492 | 5:06 pm PDT, May 25 | Mrs. | Lisa Salazar | United States | yes!! it is horrible and demented! | |
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| 1,491 | 10:13 pm PDT, May 2 | sophie szeferowicz | France | Torture in any case is unacceptable. |  |
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| 1,490 | 3:17 pm PDT, Apr 28 | Mr. | Zack Newman | United States | |
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| 1,489 | 5:39 pm PDT, Apr 11 | Anne Martinez | United States | |
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| 1,488 | 9:55 am PDT, Apr 9 | Mrs. | avril kettle | United Kingdom | |
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| 1,487 | 7:43 am PDT, Apr 8 | Ms. | Corissa Gesicki | United States | These people are seriously sick in the head. Hey I have an idea lets do that to you and through you in the water. If this actually happens the people will find out and I promise I will do anything I can to stop it. |  |
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| 1,486 | 8:21 am PDT, Apr 5 | Mrs. | sherry przybylski | United States | |
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| 1,485 | 12:18 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Mr. | Philippe Ducreux | France | |
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| 1,484 | 10:31 am PDT, Apr 3 | Ms. | Ginger Geronimo | United States | |
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| 1,483 | 3:15 am PDT, Apr 3 | Mrs. | Jocelyn Koopmann | Australia | |
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| 1,482 | 5:43 pm PDT, Apr 2 | Mr. | Mick Gill | Australia | |
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| 1,481 | 4:02 pm PDT, Apr 2 | Lisa Reali | United States | |
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| 1,480 | 12:55 pm PDT, Apr 2 | lucia izquierdo | Guatemala | |
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| 1,479 | 12:25 pm PDT, Apr 2 | Ms. | oana ichim | Romania | |
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| 1,478 | 11:17 am PDT, Apr 2 | Hans Lak | Netherlands | |
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| 1,477 | 10:51 am PDT, Apr 2 | ana maria carvalho | Brazil | |
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| 1,476 | 10:17 am PDT, Apr 2 | Pavel Movchanov | Russian Federation | |
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| 1,475 | 7:54 am PDT, Apr 2 | Marcy Morgan | United States | |
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| 1,474 | 10:14 pm PDT, Mar 28 | Mr. | Mike Downs | United States | |
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| 1,473 | 8:37 pm PDT, Mar 26 | Ms. | Natalie Santiago | United States | its a sick plan. And cruel too. Built a fake shark, why do you have too murder them? | |
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| 1,472 | 1:49 am PDT, Mar 22 | Nicole Terry | United States | |
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| 1,471 | 2:48 pm PDT, Mar 21 | Ms. | nina hupp | United States | |
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| 1,470 | 10:35 pm PDT, Mar 19 | Ms. | Sharon Hull | United States | |
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| 1,469 | 6:32 pm PDT, Mar 18 | Valeriya Sholokhova | United States | |
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| 1,468 | 11:37 am PDT, Mar 18 | Naomi Dutch | United States | |
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| 1,467 | 9:27 am PDT, Mar 18 | Mrs. | Elizabeth Oehrn | Sweden | |
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| 1,466 | 3:46 pm PDT, Mar 15 | Gabrielle Bertrand | France | |
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| 1,465 | 1:23 pm PDT, Mar 13 | Anonymous | United States | |
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| 1,464 | 11:49 am PDT, Mar 10 | Terry Lee | United States | |
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| 1,463 | 12:37 pm PST, Mar 8 | Mrs. | UsdiGadu Sequichie-Kerchee | United States | |
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| 1,462 | 8:06 am PST, Mar 6 | Fabiane Neubert | Brazil | |
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| 1,461 | 3:38 am PST, Mar 6 | Henry Story | United States | |
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| 1,460 | 7:52 pm PST, Mar 5 | Ms. | Roxann Contrenchis | United States | This is a cruel project and a sin against Gods creatures. All involved must be punished. |  |
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| 1,459 | 2:01 pm PST, Mar 5 | Kamila Baszczyn | Poland | |
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| 1,458 | 12:48 pm PST, Mar 5 | Amir H Ahamenata | United States | |
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| 1,457 | 10:30 am PST, Mar 5 | Pearl Millard | United Kingdom | |
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| 1,456 | 7:19 am PST, Mar 5 | Danielle Woodyshek | United States | |
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| 1,455 | 7:58 pm PST, Mar 4 | Sandy Sanderson | United States | |
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| 1,454 | 6:58 pm PST, Mar 4 | Laura Stringer | United States | |
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| 1,453 | 4:33 pm PST, Mar 4 | Pamela Mendoza | United States | |
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| 1,452 | 4:29 pm PST, Mar 4 | Mrs. | Lori Rohn | United States | This is evil science fiction come to life! Leave them alone-are humans next? | |
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| 1,451 | 2:10 pm PST, Mar 4 | Greg Bostwick | United States | |
Stop Exploiting Sharks!
Dear Dr. Anthony Thether,
We the undersigned would like to express our concern regarding the Defense Advance Research Project Agency's (DARPA) funding to control and manipulate sharks for military purposes.
We hope to prevent further exploitation of these threatened animals. Please cease your funding of this project and any other projects involving implants that will monitor or control animals.
Thank you for your time in this matter.
We the undersigned would like to express our concern regarding the Defense Advance Research Project Agency's (DARPA) funding to control and manipulate sharks for military purposes.
We hope to prevent further exploitation of these threatened animals. Please cease your funding of this project and any other projects involving implants that will monitor or control animals.
Thank you for your time in this matter.
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