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Dolphin & Sea Lion Power!
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Although sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads might be a little cooler, I guess the next best thing is dolphins and sea lions protecting our national interests. According to the U.S. Navy, these feisty creatures can be trained to detect suspicious divers or other terrorist who want to blow things up in the Puget Sound. I feel so safe now.
Dolphins may protect the nation, one fin at a time
Aren't most terrorist who are against the US from somewhere in the desert where scuba gear is not very practical?
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Tax dollars well spent. God I love our government.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not...
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
8gb iPhone on Tmobile
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Posting Junkie
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How do dolphins survive in the cold Puget Sound? There have never been dolphins there.
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5 
How do dolphins survive in the cold Puget Sound? There have never been dolphins there.
Wet suits, of course!
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They need snorkels. And flippers.
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Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2006
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The US Military has been training dolphins for various tasks for a while now. They also use them to dectect underwater bombs and whatnot.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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They also help find little Timmy when he gets himself into some trouble!
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You might be interested in the following articles:
# Herman, L. M., Hovancik, J.R., Gory, J.D. & Bradshaw, G.L. (1989). Generalization of visual matching by a bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): Evidence for invariance of cognitive performance with visual or auditory materials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 15, 124-136.
# Herman, L. M. and Forestell, P. H. (1985). Reporting presence or absence of named objects by a language-trained dolphin. Neuroscience and Bioehavioral Reviews, 9, 667-691.
# Herman, L. M., Richards, D. G. & Wolz, J. P. (1984). Comprehension of sentences by bottlenosed dolphins. Cognition, 16, 129-219.
This last article lead the researchers to figure that Bottlenosed dolphins may have the cognitive potential of 5 years of age humans...
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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
Emile M. Cioran
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Anybody remember the Dolphin in that ****ed up early 90s 'cyberpunk' movie with Keanu Reeves? Lawnmower man? Or something... Johnny 5? I can't remember the name.
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PS: Flipper's real name was Mitzy. My dad got to ride her in Florida back in the 60s.
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Moderator Join Date: Feb 2006
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Originally Posted by centerchannel68
Anybody remember the Dolphin in that ****ed up early 90s 'cyberpunk' movie with Keanu Reeves? Lawnmower man? Or something... Johnny 5? I can't remember the name.
Johnny Mnemonic
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Originally Posted by centerchannel68
My dad got to ride her in Florida back in the 60s.
That sounds so wrong. 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by Mastrap
That sounds so wrong.
But so, so right...
...I mean...TACOS!
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Any ramblings are entirely my own, and do not represent those of my employers, coworkers, friends, or species
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
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Originally Posted by Rumor
Johnny Mnemonic
Originally Posted by Johnny Mnemonic
I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head.
Man, that was a pretty inconceivable amount of data back in 1995
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
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Another memorable quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Mnemonic
I want to get online... I need a computer!
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