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Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin
Ant writes "This Yahoo! News story mentions Fuji, a mother dolphin that lost 75 percent of her tail due to a mysterious disease, being able to jump again with the help of what is believed to be the world's first artificial fin. The 34-year-old dolphin held at Japan's largest aquarium in the southern island of Okinawa wears the rubber fin for about 20 minutes a day allowing her to jump and to swim at the same speed of other dolphins."
If we don't stop the dolphins now we'll be overrun with evil cyborg dolphins
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First Porpoise!
Not looking forward to artificial fin chunks in my Tuna sandwich
I expected that dolphin to be red with 'Marlboro', 'Shell' and 'Vodafone' painted on its other fins...
our bionic dolphin masters.
I hear they taste just like tuna...
I ASKED for FREAKING LAZERS damnit... Whats a guy supposed to do around here?
When she saw the artificial fin for the first time, she ran away - did they graft legs onto her first?
"I'm curious how many more animals need prosthetics?"
I saw a titmouse once. It didn't have any, well uhm... you know.
Rock beats scissors
Paper covers rock
Scissors cuts paper
Dolphin eats plastic
Got it?
No they can't do that! This is their attempt to rebalance the karma loss from continued hunting (I mean research) of whales. It would be plain wrong to kill a defective animal for food when there are bigger healthier ones to eat (I mean research).
-- Instant Karma's gonna get you! [320848 = 2*2*2*2*11*1823]
...that wearing this fin for too long makes the dolphin tyred.
This is just the first step in uplifting the dolphins.
Next step: decyphering trinary.
So long, and thanks for all the fins.
- "They misunderestimated me."
now she has to be balanced and rotated every 10,000 miles.
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My other processor is big-endian.
Reminds me of the treehugger party to turn the 2 seals loose back into the wild and they got ate by the killer whale right in front of them.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
However, I'm drunk. So fuck youse all.
Maybe I should have posted AC, and not admitted to watching the show...
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
"When she saw the artificial fin for the first time, she ran away. She was so scared of the object. It took us five months to make her get used to the artificial fin. Now she is perfectly fine with it," he said.
Wow! They got her artificial feet too?
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Like it or not, the weak are supposed to die out.
I'm feel guilty for wearing glasses now, but I'm not sure what to do next. Should I proactively slit my wrists, or just stop wearing lenses while driving and let nature take its course?
Keep the whitehouse white, vote Trump & Palin 2020.
Well, they are the second most intelligent animal on our planet....