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White Dolphin Functionally Extict
An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in nearly fifty years another mammal, specifically an aquatic mammal, has gone extinct. In this case, it was the white dolphin, also known as the Baiji, which used to live in the Yangtze River in China. The dolphin had been known to exist for the last 20 million years."
Makes me feel bad about the tuna sandwiches I had for dinner last night.
I, for one, morn the loss of our potential aquatic overlords.
How did they taste?
Don't kid yourself. If a white dolphin ever got the chance he'd eat you and everyone you care about.
I know they're not really equivalent, but it's still funny to see this right above "New Zealand's First Land Mammal Discovered".
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-kfg
That's not true...We take the Lexus to the environmental rally on Sundays, Saturday is Hummer day.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
it sucks that they're gone, but times change and evolution is cruel mistress. they should have grown opposable thumbs 20000 years ago and stopped our ancestors from inventing the plow then maybe they would have stood a chance.
lose != loose
and thanks for all the fish!
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They called him Fripper, Fripper ...
Maybe you should respect their choice to just die off and end their misery? How the hell do you or any of these other people know they WANT to be protected? Goddamned hippies!
fuckin' unelected lying Chimp
He and the GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS killed the white dolphin
it probably drowned because all the ice on the Yangtzee thawed thanks to Halliburton.
All you stupid Christian idiots probably think Osama bin Laden did it.
Even though there is NO connection between 911 and white dolphins!
Because maybe one of those extinct species was good at statistics.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
Find one (nouveau New Zealand mammal), lose one (Chinese White Dolphin). It evens out, no? :: Goes and votes Republican ::
I kid, I kid.
"First they came for the white dolphin, but I didn't say a word because I'm not a white dolphin..."
So say we all
It wasn't "Adam and Steve". Functionally or not.
I /thought/ my tuna sandwich tasted different today.
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
I won't believe the white dolphins are dying until Netcraft confirms it.
Saturday is Hummer day.
I wish.
Oh, you meant the car. Sorry.
20 Million Years.
Well that was plenty of enough time to evolve into something that can develop an industrial civilization and subjugate all other sentient beings.
If they didn't want to go extinct they could have spent all that time developing their own space program and left.
Or nuclear weapons depending if they were not in a "good mood" kind of species.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
It's the dolphin bits that give tuna that great taste.
The bubble-era vision of a Utopian ocean is dented and dirty...The white dolphin has collided with the olive tree, and its crumpled hulk spins in a ditch as the orchard smolders.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Why is it - knowing that the dolphin probably bailed out - I'm suddenly looking up in the sky wondering if a large fleet of construction ships will soon be overheard in preparation to create an interstellar bypass?
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Agent Smith? Is that you?
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
And keep in mind that all the other species on earth need us (or another species like us) and our clever monkey brains to figure out how to get off this rock before the sun explodes in a couple billion years. Otherwise all life that we know of will die and the whole entire exercise will have been pointless.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
No animal intentionally lives in harmony with their environment. The only reason humans are causing a mass extinction rather than any other animal, is because we're considerably more efficient, so much so that we're in a different league entirely to other animals. The reason we're having problems is because of our success as a predator; we have to reign in our power considerably in order to prevent the destruction of the environment around us. Few species are capable of such restraint.