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| Posted By: Jacob Anderson Posted On: Dec 2, 2003 Views: 1441 | Navy Dolphins (A view form a college Debater) i have some evidence here with links that will allow to see through this total and complete propoganda http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Mar/26/ln/ln13a.html Wednesday, March 26, 2003, accessed on December 2, 2003 The dolphins are taught to avoid touching the mines, which might cause them to explode, said Capt. Mike Tillotson, a Navy bomb disposal expert. He said there was little risk to animals doing this kind of work. http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mammals/ accessed on December 2, 2003 Everyone is familiar with security patrol dogs. You may even know that because of their exceptionally keen sense of smell, dogs like beagles are also used to detect drugs and bombs, or land mines. But a dog would not be effective in finding a sea mine. Sea mines are sophisticated, expensive weapons that are designed to work in the ocean where they can sink ships, destroy landing craft, and kill or injure personnel. Sea mines are made so that they cannot be set off easily by wave action or marine animals growing on or bumping into them. If undetected, sea mines can be deadly, destructive weapons. But just as the dog's keen sense of smell makes it ideal for detecting land mines, the U.S. Navy has found that the biological sonar of dolphins, called echolocation, makes them uniquely effective at locating sea mines so they can be avoided or removed. |
| Posted By: Dan Starr Posted On: Apr 18, 2004 Views: 1391 | RE: Navy Dolphins (A view form a college Debater) I am writing a research paper on the ethical dilemma of using dolphins in the military; your thoughts are quite succinct, well articulating "my side" of the issue. If you believe in the hierarchical structure of the animal kingdom, as I do, any "humane" use of lower level life forms to benefit higher levels is justified. Note, I said, humane; abuse of any life form should not be tolerated. |
| Posted By: captain planet Posted On: Mar 5, 2005 Views: 1302 | RE: Navy Dolphins (A view form a college Debater) i agree on the lower life form thing. consequently, dolphins should be using humans more often. |
| Posted By: F. Posted On: Nov 10, 2005 Views: 1247 | RE: Navy Dolphins (A view form a college Debater) I'm not an expert on Dolphin. I have read many so called expert papers on them and I have found that most haven't the slightest idea as to how a Dolphin thinks. Now most will say just who in hell is this guy to say something like that. Well I am the father of the family that had the wonderful experience of having a free Dolphin called Dolly Phynne for five years, until she died in 1975. My children swam and were guarded by her all during this time. She was my wife's personal body guard and she swam with me while catching Goosters, (that's what the call them in the Florida Keys) I found that if you had your head close to her's while swimming, she could read your mind. There was many the times she would respond to my thoughts, good or bad, and let me know it in a nano second that she knew. She had the temperment of a woman, moody, happy, and sexually active at certain times of the month. It was a joy to swim long distances with her along, but she was a pest when the children and I went water skiing. If we dropped a ski, she would pick it up and return it to our dock, over two miles away. If it belonged in our canal she would make sure that it stayed there, if it didn't she would throw it up on our sea wall to be removed to the trash or returned to the other homeowners along the canals. She even towed a scuber diver home one day because he didn't belong in her canal. She never hurt anyone or was agressive toward them unless they went after the children swimming in the canal with her. She didn't tolerate a man rough house playing with the children and she responded by driving him out of the water. I could continue to tell you of many things this wonderful anamal did while with us but that would take a book. When she died, I had to take my wife to Hawaii where I was working at the time because she was haveing a nervous breakdown at the loss of Dolly, one of our family. |