We are a team of 8 engineers that have volunteered to research and design a process, product and/or service for a Community. We will develop a display based on the theme 'Engineering for Ecotourism'. However, we would like your opinion on our idea. If you have anything you would like to state regarding the benefits to conservation, social aspects, moral implications, or anything else - your words would be largely appreciated.
Please allow me to elaborate on the concept:
Game hunting. Responsible for countless numbers of extinctions
and endangerments. It will never be stopped, but it can be
controlled. The 'killing' effect removed; the animal populations
restored; the local people assisted; the fun and thrill kept.
With the revolutionary new SHR, Simulated Hunting Rifle.
Through a tiny digital camera installed in the scope of a former
hunting rifle, the hunter points and shoots, and a digital
photo, with real/superimposed crosshairs is taken and stored. A
battery pack in the shoulder stock runs the devices, a
compressed air cylinder provides a realistic smoke and recoil,
and the ingenious reloading system where the photographs are
stored in a 10-shot magazine-style memory module.
The photos are viewed on a computer at base camp through a
direct uplink from the memory modules, or while in the field on
a 'Viewcam' style flip screen installed in the stock. Photos are
available for purchase from the base camp. The base of the stock
is removed to replace the batteries and gas bottle.
Although this may seem still like a blood sport, it is the only
true way to control game hunting. Human's enjoy the thrill of
hunting, killing, dominating... The SHR provides the thrill of
the hunt, without the conscience/nightmares of slaughtering
innocent animals. Tourists partaking in the 3 day guided hunting
tours are supporting the locals with which they
live/dine/travel. The impact on the environment/ecosystems is
positive: no destruction, and money going back into the land and
the peoples who own it...
Plans are already in production for peripheral devices
taken/used on the hunting tours (safer trucks/APCs. etc), and
modifications of the gun for other hunting areas
(underwater-spearguns, forests-shotguns, space-laserguns)
Help, complaints and any comments welcome. Email:
mk.morgan@student.qut.edu.au
Engineering for Ecotourism - Your opinion on our Idea