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FellOnEarth

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA
April 2006

DEC 03, 2007 10:27 AM

scylis said:
sharks know better than to fuck with dolphins, right down to on an instinctual level. even if it's an animatronic dolphin being pulled by a boat.



LOL the sound delay on this clip is so bad, it was like watching a badly dubbed foreign film (particularly around -3:00 to -2:00). Cool clip from Myth Busters, even if it is unintentionally funny.

powergirl5000

powergirl5000

I'm lost
November 2007

DEC 03, 2007 10:30 AM

I wanna go swimming with dolphins...how awesome are they?

Admiral_Pants

Admiral_Pants

Austin, TX
May 2004

DEC 03, 2007 10:38 AM

I saw this article elsewhere with the headline "Dolphins Help Shark Attack Victim".

I had to think about it for a second.

magpieboy

magpieboy

Costa Rica
June 2004

DEC 03, 2007 10:57 AM

scotts0 said:
yeah, a sharks nose is nothing but nerves so if you just touch a sharks nose it practically paralyzes them for a moment and they lose track of what they were doing.

and, the mythbusters proved this theory recently. they built a lifesize dolphin went to south africa, put a fake seal in the water and a great white attacked it. moments later they put the seal back in the water with the robotic dolphin around the seal. the shark cautiously swam near the seal and dolphin and then jetted away never to be seen again.



If it was really robotic, I call bullshit. Sharks are extremely sensitive to electromagnetic fields, and any robot would have been emitting enough to make it entirely unlike a real dolphin, and perhaps enough to make it annoy a shark. Sorry.

Wheezy_E

Wheezy_E

Boulder City, NV
April 2004

DEC 03, 2007 11:01 AM

Wow, that's really really cool. Not to take away from the dolphins or anything, but my hat tip on the shark fighting issue still goes to Phillip Kerkhof




A man who caught a four-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach today said he only did it because he was drunk on vodka.

Bricklayer Phillip Kerkhof was fishing for squid with friends off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, on Monday night when he spotted the bronze whaler shark swimming in the shallows, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

"I just snuck up behind him, and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," Mr Kerkhof said. "He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Mr Kerkhof said.

As he wrestled the shark onto the jetty, the shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans but all he suffered was a slight scratch.

Mr Kerkhof said he'd had two meals already from the shark and planned to use the rest in a weekend cookout for friends in the town, which lies about 870 miles west of Sydney.

"It's beautiful mate - restaurant quality," he said.

aleksa

aleksa

Tacoma, WA
April 2006

DEC 03, 2007 11:04 AM

Admiral_Pants said:
I saw this article elsewhere with the headline "Dolphins Help Shark Attack Victim".

I had to think about it for a second.



Wow, some editor was asleep at their computer that day. biggrin

magpieboy

magpieboy

Costa Rica
June 2004

DEC 03, 2007 11:07 AM

aleksa said:

Admiral_Pants said:
I saw this article elsewhere with the headline "Dolphins Help Shark Attack Victim".

I had to think about it for a second.



Wow, some editor was asleep at their computer that day. biggrin



Killers of the deep.

*nods*

Ascanius

Ascanius

South Royalton, VT
October 2006

DEC 03, 2007 11:17 AM

Wheezy_E said:
Wow, that's really really cool. Not to take away from the dolphins or anything, but my hat tip on the shark fighting issue still goes to Phillip Kerkhof




A man who caught a four-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach today said he only did it because he was drunk on vodka.

Bricklayer Phillip Kerkhof was fishing for squid with friends off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, on Monday night when he spotted the bronze whaler shark swimming in the shallows, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

"I just snuck up behind him, and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," Mr Kerkhof said. "He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Mr Kerkhof said.

As he wrestled the shark onto the jetty, the shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans but all he suffered was a slight scratch.

Mr Kerkhof said he'd had two meals already from the shark and planned to use the rest in a weekend cookout for friends in the town, which lies about 870 miles west of Sydney.

"It's beautiful mate - restaurant quality," he said.



I'll see your Kerkhof and raise you Jessie Arbogast's uncle.

SonOfAPunk

SonOfAPunk

Maple Ridge, BC
January 2006

DEC 03, 2007 11:25 AM

Kickass!

My buddy and his girlfriend just got back from Mexico. They swam with dolphins. They said it was a really strange bond they felt with them. Like they just loved all humans they encountered.

Hey maybe that's what happens when we die or something. We become dolphins. Floppin' about the ocean, bottlenosing the fuck out of jerk-face sharks.

Haha!

magpieboy

magpieboy

Costa Rica
June 2004

DEC 03, 2007 11:29 AM

What'd I say?

Evidence of infanticide in bottlenose dolphins

Killers of the deep.

*nods again*

StopSnitchin

StopSnitchin

Hudson, NH
February 2004

DEC 03, 2007 12:30 PM

I want to buy a six-pack... I mean, pod, of these motherfucking great dolphins! I, for one, find shark bites not so pleasant when I'm out in the water on my board ARRR!!!

scylis

scylis

Anchorage, AK
November 2004

DEC 03, 2007 01:30 PM

magpieboy said:

scotts0 said:
yeah, a sharks nose is nothing but nerves so if you just touch a sharks nose it practically paralyzes them for a moment and they lose track of what they were doing.

and, the mythbusters proved this theory recently. they built a lifesize dolphin went to south africa, put a fake seal in the water and a great white attacked it. moments later they put the seal back in the water with the robotic dolphin around the seal. the shark cautiously swam near the seal and dolphin and then jetted away never to be seen again.



If it was really robotic, I call bullshit. Sharks are extremely sensitive to electromagnetic fields, and any robot would have been emitting enough to make it entirely unlike a real dolphin, and perhaps enough to make it annoy a shark. Sorry.



yet they go right up to things with big fuck-off motors, divers carrying wonderfully complex cameras, mini submersibles, and a whole plethora of things that'd put out way more powerful electromagnetic fields if there's a big, tasty fish in it for them, but something shaped like a dolphin with small servos scared it the fuck off.

they might have special organs capable of sensing the electromagnetic fields animals give off, but it's not some super sensor devise. in fact, once they get close in, great whites rely primarily on sight. honestly, if they're unable to tell that the wooden board shaped like a seal actually isn't a seal with those electromagnetic field-sensing organs, the chance that the fields put off by the servos in Buster's dolphin friend are going to scare it away is unbelievably, astronomically tiny.

jon_o

jon_o

United Kingdom
July 2006

DEC 03, 2007 01:50 PM

Wheezy_E said:
Wow, that's really really cool. Not to take away from the dolphins or anything, but my hat tip on the shark fighting issue still goes to Phillip Kerkhof




A man who caught a four-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach today said he only did it because he was drunk on vodka.

Bricklayer Phillip Kerkhof was fishing for squid with friends off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, on Monday night when he spotted the bronze whaler shark swimming in the shallows, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

"I just snuck up behind him, and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," Mr Kerkhof said. "He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Mr Kerkhof said.

As he wrestled the shark onto the jetty, the shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans but all he suffered was a slight scratch.

Mr Kerkhof said he'd had two meals already from the shark and planned to use the rest in a weekend cookout for friends in the town, which lies about 870 miles west of Sydney.

"It's beautiful mate - restaurant quality," he said.




ahh good ol south oz, home. its all a bit crazy there. I like how the article says how far from sydney it is, when infact it is quite close to Adelaide, the MAIN capital city of the state....just no one knows lil ol adelaide

CrazyBen

CrazyBen

Saint Petersburg, FL
September 2007

DEC 03, 2007 01:58 PM

Of course don't forget no one knows quite why dolphins gangrape each other and form "gangs" whose only apparent purpose is to cause trouble. Whether they're nice or not, we still have a long way to go toward figuring them out...

J24U

J24U

Danvers, MA
February 2006

DEC 03, 2007 02:02 PM

CrazyBen said:
Of course don't forget no one knows quite why dolphins gangrape each other and form "gangs" whose only apparent purpose is to cause trouble. Whether they're nice or not, we still have a long way to go toward figuring them out...



I blame a lack of afterschool activities and outreach programs for young dolphins.

magpieboy

magpieboy

Costa Rica
June 2004

DEC 03, 2007 02:47 PM

scylis said:

magpieboy said:

scotts0 said:
yeah, a sharks nose is nothing but nerves so if you just touch a sharks nose it practically paralyzes them for a moment and they lose track of what they were doing.

and, the mythbusters proved this theory recently. they built a lifesize dolphin went to south africa, put a fake seal in the water and a great white attacked it. moments later they put the seal back in the water with the robotic dolphin around the seal. the shark cautiously swam near the seal and dolphin and then jetted away never to be seen again.



If it was really robotic, I call bullshit. Sharks are extremely sensitive to electromagnetic fields, and any robot would have been emitting enough to make it entirely unlike a real dolphin, and perhaps enough to make it annoy a shark. Sorry.



yet they go right up to things with big fuck-off motors, divers carrying wonderfully complex cameras, mini submersibles, and a whole plethora of things that'd put out way more powerful electromagnetic fields if there's a big, tasty fish in it for them, but something shaped like a dolphin with small servos scared it the fuck off.

they might have special organs capable of sensing the electromagnetic fields animals give off, but it's not some super sensor devise. in fact, once they get close in, great whites rely primarily on sight. honestly, if they're unable to tell that the wooden board shaped like a seal actually isn't a seal with those electromagnetic field-sensing organs, the chance that the fields put off by the servos in Buster's dolphin friend are going to scare it away is unbelievably, astronomically tiny.



Point well made. But yet, bad science.

magpieboy

magpieboy

Costa Rica
June 2004

DEC 03, 2007 02:48 PM

J24U said:

CrazyBen said:
Of course don't forget no one knows quite why dolphins gangrape each other and form "gangs" whose only apparent purpose is to cause trouble. Whether they're nice or not, we still have a long way to go toward figuring them out...



I blame a lack of afterschool activities and outreach programs for young dolphins.



AND WE'RE SPENDING BILLIONS IN IRAQ EVERY DAY!!! THINK OF THE DOLPHINS!

supernovice

supernovice

Colombia
November 2002

DEC 03, 2007 03:04 PM

And I thought the Dolphins couldn't beat anything...


ˇBienvenidos a Miami!

Fatality

Fatality

SUICIDEGIRL

Florida, USA

DEC 03, 2007 03:13 PM

powergrrl5000 said:
I wanna go swimming with dolphins...how awesome are they?



I've done it like 5 times. It's amazing

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

DEC 03, 2007 03:23 PM

supernovice said:
And I thought the Dolphins couldn't beat anything...

ˇBienvenidos a Miami!


Well played, sir. Well played.

-TM

D2

D2

Miami, FL
December 2004

DEC 03, 2007 04:04 PM

supernovice said:
And I thought the Dolphins couldn't beat anything...


ˇBienvenidos a Miami!



Oh yes, because we really needed another reminder.
frown

Cye

Cye

SUICIDEGIRL

Oklahoma, USA

DEC 03, 2007 04:57 PM

aw...cute lil dolphins....

xazapdmytinu

xazapdmytinu

Fort Collins, CO
July 2007

DEC 03, 2007 05:01 PM

Chainlink said:



I was going to say...It's obviously a thank you for all the fish!

SockPuppet

SockPuppet

I'm lost
July 2006

DEC 03, 2007 05:07 PM

Dolphins still haven't learned better?

Alfaduetto

Alfaduetto

Greeneville, TN
May 2004

DEC 03, 2007 05:07 PM

I eat shark steaks ... seems only fair.

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