Pau_Diaz said:
No, this is just a theory. They could be trained in the use of firearms, if someone manufactured smaller versions of our weapons. The point here is that war between man and squirrel would escalate from one of indifference as a result of ignorance to a full scale conflict. Not that it'd be a bad thing because some people would deserve to have their asses kicked for being against such gentle creatures. We'd of course have to find some way to negotiate with the squirrels or they set up traps that could give us some nasty cuts and abrasions.
You hit on some very good points. I would love to address all of them but as it stands, I simply dont' have that kind of time.
1st.
I would like to point out the manufacturing capablity of said "war-like squirrels". Sure they may be trained to kill us using very small versions of our own weapons. But do they truely have the ablity to mass produce the guns with the little resources the average squirrel is going to encounter in his home. AKA a tree/bush/hole in ground.
I feel that the effective counter to the war like squirrels isn't to fight them. But to beat them with the way we won WW2, with economics and production. We would simply deny the squirrels the manufacturing capablity to produce the tiny guns and weapons.
2nd.
Squirrels are facinating geneticly already. I don't see bullets and weapons being an effective form of combat with other species. The reproductive capablity of squirrels is already so high that they could take a huge number of losses in a full scale war with other animals, that weapons wouldn't be needed. Strength as we all know comes in numbers. For example lets say you train a squrriel to use a gun, but training it takes nearly its entire life. Squirrels only live about 3 years on average. At some point you would need to be able to pass that knowledge faster from one squirrel to another. Its not a effective combat tactic to spend 90% of your life learning how to use a single weapon.
Thats where genetics comes in. They have done studdies on squirrels in the wild and how adult squirrels are almost immune to rattlesnake venom. They have documented squirrels being attacked by rattlesnakes and the squirrels not even backing down from a rattlesnake. They have video of squirrels attempting to be bitten by rattlesnakes, on purpose! Thier genetic code has given them the instinct to charge at a predetor and be bitten for the soul purpose to weed out the squirrels without a higher immunity to venom. And to counter that, the rattlesnakes will only eat if thier venom is infact of higher potency than their fellow rattle snakes.
Rattle snakes and squirrels are in a genetic arms race!
I feel if squirrels are going to have any edge in the up and comming human to squirrel wars. Human based weapons simply arn't going to be effective. They need to compete on a genetic level with us, something they are obviously very good at, by our observations with rattlesnakes.
Now... if you could cross breed a squirrel and a rattlesnake, and make it spit venom, that would be something. With the reproducive benifits of a squirrel and the venom of a rattlesnake... we humans would be outnumbered quickly... and with our low immunity to poison, we would totaly screwed.
SO... all and all.. gun toting squirrels not a good tactic. But mutated venom spitting squirrels... Well sir, I wouldn't want to see that day come.
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Oct 28, 2009 @ 21:14:23
i love it... the picture i have in my head from this is absoulutely fantastic... it starts out with a regular squirrel sitting innocently (or ominously) in a tree with dark music playing as we watch him holding his acorn... is he just thinking about that acorn, or is he planning to use the weapons we have taught him to hold to take out the human race? dun dun dun... scene switches to an army of squirrels marching into a destroyed city to kill any survivors as people scream and run from them... 
are you insane?
Some a neat and amusing.
and mankind will be laid to waste by the mighty squirrel... 
