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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."
I for one, welcome our new evil cyborg dolphin overlords.
A Dolphin ate my rubber once... now I have a kid..
phallus oh yes! the secret phallus! secret it has always been!
by reading this post, you agree to allow the secret phallus to rape you in any orifice, any time.
viva the phallus!
The Vietnam vet is still sitting by the side of the road singing about how he has no legs.
Not to rag on a veteran, but what obligation do the Japanese have to make prosthetics for Americans? If you want to rail against our misplaced priorities, this is probably not the place.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
omg mod parent down
dolphins r your friends, you shoudl not shit them
Porpoise? You have no porpoise!
Every month you go collect your dolphin the unemployment plaice.
Haven't you haddock enough?
Isn't it time you get in tuna with your potential?
You could've been a sturgeon!
You have no porpoise.
A kid is a baby goat.....weirdo. What are you doing with dolphins, goats, and rubbers?
- Dolphins aren't "always smiling". That's just an optical illusion caused by the natural curvature of their jaws which by coincidence resembles a human expression of contentment.
- Dolphins don't use radar. It's sonar. And human beings do it too -- except since we started wearing shoes, we have taken to using the sound of our own footfalls as excitation pulses, and so don't tend to make deliberate clicks anymore.
- If dolphins are that smart, why haven't they built cities? Or vehicles? Where is their historical record, their literature?
- Finally, why does every can of tuna say on it "Dolphin friendly" ? How can you object to the eating of dolphins while not objecting to the eating of tuna {which, being predators, absorb all manner of poisonous heavy metals from everything they have eaten, including everything that everything they have ever eaten has itself eaten, as well as from the water itself}?
They aren't beautiful, they're overrated. Dolphin-worship culture is merely an excuse for whiney new-age types {who probably believe in aliens as well} to make their own miserable existences seem a little less pointless. {And for people to make a quick buck selling tat decorated with dolphins to gullible people.}Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
HAHAHAHAH, that was too funny.
Last year in Oahu. They had butchered over 18,000 blue sharks for the harvest.
coorect netwAork questions, then
...small animals scurry as your dark aura envelopes them.
Hey, not a problem! Being able to give people such as yourself an outlet for their blinding sarcasm is what it's all about, right? You truly deserve a clap on the back for your zing in my direction! I believe that you deserve the "good work" more than I.
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r u a fag?
his dope when he travels.
Soylent Tuna is made of dolphins!! DOLPHINS I tell you!!
If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
I didn't bother reading your post. Your joke was crap and that's all there is to it.
dolphins with friggen laser beams!
The point isn't that Japan should be giving our veterans prosthetics. The point is that in Japan, a dolphin has a prosthetic, while in America, vietnam veterans still lack prosthetics.
I dare you to spent 2 hours with a vietnam veteran. Ask him to tell you what it was like over there, and what it was like when he got back.
I for one am glad that we now make a distinction between supporting the soldier and supporting the war, and that the former does not require the latter, in fact if may preclude it (in the case of an unjust war).
Most of the time I hear conservatives liberal bashing, it's just a load of crap. But people really screwed up by hating vietnam vets; most of them didn't want to be there, they had to serve. And we, the country screwed them double - in what we put them through, and in how we have treated them since.
Those who came back with their psyches relatively intact at least had a chance to try to live the rest of their life - however haunted it may be. But MOST people who are in an extended war - I think it's 6 months - fall into one of two categories: 1) mentally scarred by the experience (this is around 90%) and 2) not affected heavily, but these people are predisposed to anger, violence, killing, etc anyway.
Oh, but it got moderated flamebait, so I'll just forget about all that... yeah, screw that guy on the side of the road who's short an arm or leg or both, who can't see or hear, who spends every night of his life in nightmares running from through dark paddies with a legion of hidden pursuers on his heels; yeah, screw that guy who can't speak full sentences because he's so screwed up from booby trapped bodies and following orders to machine gun 8 year olds. Yeah, he's lived through more than you and I will probably ever suffer in ten of our lifetimes, but it's his fault right? He was drafted, but so what? He was under duress and direct orders in a war zone, but he had a choice right? He's PTSD and schizo now, but hey, he should just "snap out of it" right? It doesn't work that way.
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