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On the Record
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PatientGrasshopper:

berethond:
No, no, they'll be our allies in the fight against the robot-nazi-vampires who are zombies in 2012!

Wes they have always been good to humans,they have been known to help ward off sharks. There are pleanty of stories of them helping humans.

That's right. Mythbusters proved it.

Gone Gonzo
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Quick,all bow down to the dolphin overlords! If we obey now they may spare us when the time comes!

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Avida:

Avida:
*resists urge to quote Douglas Adams to death here*

ChromeAlchemist:
SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!

Thank god someone did it for me ^_^

Just glad I could help *_~

Muckraker
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Aardvark:
Everything is evolving.

Except for Creationists.

Fail.

Gone Gonzo
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Untamed Waters:
Fail.

How's Genesis treating you, then?

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Aardvark:

Untamed Waters:
Fail.

How's Genesis treating you, then?

You hardly asked a question. Elaborate.

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I'm happy for dolphins learning new things, now they can soon utilize nets to catch more fish.

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I really dont know how many of us watch sXephil... sad that you would reference him here though :(

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Gone Gonzo
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I read somewhere that Dolphins were the only other animals to engage in Gang Rape.

now do you see why I'm terrified at the prospect of them getting smarter?

Pulitzer Laureate
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Oh god!

Our future will be just like the Simpsons halloween special

AH!

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Untamed Waters:
You hardly asked a question. Elaborate.

Says Mr One-Word-Argument-Man.

Gone Gonzo
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berethond:
No, no, they'll be our allies in the fight against the robot-nazi-vampires who are zombies in 2012!

I doubt it. They kill porpoises for shits and giggles.

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Well, as long as they help as in the fight against the Jellyfish!

Gone Gonzo
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Aardvark:
Everything is evolving.

Except for Creationists.

too true

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Aardvark:

Untamed Waters:
You hardly asked a question. Elaborate.

Says Mr One-Word-Argument-Man.

Oh? I really wish I would have known I was arguing with anybody. :)

God bless.

Gone Gonzo
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Aardvark:
Everything is evolving.

Except for Creationists.

Actually aren't humans genetically weaker now than previous generations ? I don't recall where I heard that but modern medicine weakens the gene pool.(allows those (genetically)sick that should die to live and reproduce)

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sneakypenguin:
Actually aren't humans genetically weaker now than previous generations ? I don't recall where I heard that but modern medicine weakens the gene pool.(allows those (genetically)sick that should die to live and reproduce)

Advances in medicine mean that we're getting weaker as a species physically. Genetically undesirable disorders are being passed down that previously would have been weeded out. The upside of this is that mental attributes that would have died off are remaining in the gene pool. Thanks to these, we have more individuals, though genetically inferior physically, working in the field of biology and medicine, leading us towards a future when we can take control of our own evolution, for better or for worse.

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I dont think theyre gonna take over the world why?
At this rate by the time they do become intelligent enough to challege us the polution from all of our years of well polution will destroy them. MWAHAHAHA.

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Oh god I saw this in the simpsons once. I better grow gills!

Pulitzer Laureate
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Time to poison the water, if we don't we will be gang raped by dolphins and they will outsmart us in all the fields of sciene and soon we will be their slaves, and we will slowly de-evolve into what the dolphins were and the process will repeat a million times over!

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Now all the military has to do is attach laser beams on their heads and ...... Oh wait

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sneakypenguin:

Aardvark:
Everything is evolving.

Except for Creationists.

Actually aren't humans genetically weaker now than previous generations ? I don't recall where I heard that but modern medicine weakens the gene pool.(allows those (genetically)sick that should die to live and reproduce)

Good thing I don't take medicine.

So what you're saying is that Darwinism is as dead as chivalry is, so to speak?

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Reminds me of a David Attenborough documentary on dolphins. It was amazing - he acted out sign language on an underwater TV screen that trained dolphins promptly followed (i.e. put the blue ball into the red bucket).

After that, footage was shown of a country (escapes me which one at the moment) where the fishermen have had a symbiotic relationship with the dolphins for so long that when one dolphin gives the signal, the fishermen wade into the water, holding their nets in a semi-circle, and the dolphin group herd a shoal of fish into the waiting nets. The fishermen get a huge haul, and the dolphins get mouthfuls of the fish swimming away from the net! You have to wonder about how that started.

The third thing that amazed me on the program was an apparently recently developed fishing technique, where one dolphin (taken in turns) swims to the sand at the bottom of the shallows, and uses their nose to dig up and disturb the sediment, making it into almost a "wall" (the fish see it as such). It then herds the fish into the wall, frightening them into trying to jump over it - resulting in them leaping out of the water and into the waiting open mouths of the rest of the dolphin pod.

Did anyone else manage to catch this when it was on?

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2001: A Space Odyssey: Dolphin edition.

That would be made of win.

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Yellow Lad Unleashed:

sneakypenguin:

Aardvark:
Everything is evolving.

Except for Creationists.

Actually aren't humans genetically weaker now than previous generations ? I don't recall where I heard that but modern medicine weakens the gene pool.(allows those (genetically)sick that should die to live and reproduce)

Good thing I don't take medicine.

So what you're saying is that Darwinism is as dead as chivalry is, so to speak?

Taking medicine wont hurt you personally just later generations.
They way I see things the universe is in a continuous state of entropy and degradation. So I find darwinism hard to fully believe. Yes traits and alleles come about and change in species as their environment changes, but thats not evolution thats adaptation.
2 humans mate 50 generations later the offspring should be genetically weaker, due to mutations and genetic factors. But I could just be talking about nothing here, I'm a logistics nut not biology :)

Gone Gonzo
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If this doesn't lead to Anthros becoming reality in my generation, i don't care

Gone Gonzo
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I'm looking forward to the day we can use dolphins in our navy. Think your submarine is hidden from us? Not with motherfucking dolphins on our side asshole! These things fuckin LIVE in the ocean. You think you can hide from them? I don't think so.

Gone Gonzo
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So long and thanks for all the fish! So sad it should come to this! Didn't look at the link yet but I HAD to do it...

Copy Clerk
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Hmm, tools you say?
We should teach them to do something useful, like.. cook, or feed themself while in captivity! =D

Infamous Scribbler
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It's like Terminator, but with with living sea creatures instead...
It's the Rise of the Dolphins!

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jim_doki:
I read somewhere that Dolphins were the only other animals to engage in Gang Rape.

now do you see why I'm terrified at the prospect of them getting smarter?

Excuse me? That's... uh... something I've never heard before... um... source please?

PatientGrasshopper:

berethond:
No, no, they'll be our allies in the fight against the robot-nazi-vampires who are zombies in 2012!

Well they have always been good to humans, they have been known to help ward off sharks. There are pleanty of stories of them helping humans.

Yeah, they're just kind to us so that when we lower our guard, they can stab us in the back.

Sorry if I was rude (to both people I quoted).

Gone Gonzo
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It starts with sponges, then their going to start using brillow pads, then soap, then before we know it people will be hiring them as janitors, but they won't be satisfied with that. soon one of them will find a gun and "by chance" learn how to use it, then it will pass the knowlage on to its children, and their children, and then they will strike back at their humaniod masters, conquoring the world and forcing humanity to move underground in valt-like communities until humanity finally counter-strikes back, redeeming our place as the dominate species.........or atleast Until the dolphin's crustation predecessors attak with their army of spiders.

If you read this; permenate +1 insanety

p.s. Maybe I should post this in the "alternate apakolypse" thread.

Gone Gonzo
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sorry, I accidentaly double posted.

Gone Gonzo
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Anyone else find it weird that the males try to hide the fact that they use sponges more than females? Maybe they see it as a sign of weakness? If that's true, then their social structure is more advanced than anyone thought as well.

Aardvark:

How's Genesis treating you, then?

Hey, what's with the cheap shots? Not everyone who believes in God and the Bible fails to believe in science and evolution. I know, I'm one of them.

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The dolphins are going to.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-9abkWqt8

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