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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."
More than 995% of all zoological diversity, in total, ever, is extinct. Why do we need to sweat it when the White Dolphin, or the Black Rhino, or the African Elephant or the Manatee or the Tiger all disappear?
Anyone ever heard of comedic timing?
Yeah, well, this isn't it.
Do we really care so little for our environment that all we can do in a case like this is make jokes? Makes it kind of hard to hold up any sort of hope for the human race. Very sad really.
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So the earth is alive, now? Maia or Gaia or whatever the hell?
More hippie bullshit. Let's stick to science.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
... fuck.
Well, if you read the news, you're fully aware that a lot of "science" is later revealed to be bullshit.
I wouldn't be so smug if I were you.
Nothing interesting to say...MUST...NOT...REPLY...ohtheheckwithit.
Holy fuck are you a complete moron.
Yep, more proof that despite the best efforts of part of the human race, we WILL be the end of ourselves...Personally I just hope we off ourselves before we take everything else on this planet along with us.
Come on by and I'll personally show you some 'natural selection', if you know what I mean.
Glad to see you are proud about and desire to use responsibly your (unwarranted) sentience. Fucking waste of gray matter that one.
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Yeah, I hate those guys. However,
One less species of mammal = one less potential source of rabies.
One less species of mammal = less CO2 released into the atmosphere.
One less species of mammal = less heat generated into the oceans, and less thermal expansion.
(Damn Dirty Dolphins!)
I didn't say the joke itself was inappropriate, I specifically targeted the timing of said joke.
Shall I tell that joke about your mom while we're all huddled around her grave at her funeral? Or would it be more appropriate for a private conversation at the reception after?
Why I'm responding to someone that calls themselves Lord though...you'd think I'd learn.
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Ahh, so respecting your mother, a single solitary person, is more important than respecting an entire species?
Good to know what kind of morality we're working with here.
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It could be said that they were the pathetic species not being able to adapt to changes in their environment fast enough. I say good riddance.
Look children! An asshole! See how it loathes everything that's NOT itself? Those things nearly killed all life on earth with pollution, war and greed. Good thing they're nearly extinct.
O~ Him that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
Although we dont like to admit it, human beings are a virus to planet earth. We suck the resources, multiple then spread and destroy anything in our path.
I know it eats at you everyday, but because you naturally treasure life, you keep telling yourself over and over thats it not true that your not responsible for the damage of earth.. but i dont see you making a difference. Infact i dont think anyone in slashdot really cares enough to stop what we were created to do. Maybe this is how viruses feel aswell. I know myself that ill still be eating tuna.
Sure you say that you brought yourself a hybrid car to cut down on emissions, but your still poluting the earth with your share of eletricty, garbage, the products you buy, the water you use..
infact your PC is made up of 3 times its weight in wasted chemicals.
Its not a shame the earth has to end this way, but it is a shame that we are the cause, and that includes you!