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- From: kanga.caltech.edu!magney (Michael Agney)
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: Dolphin-Aliens?
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 19:09:26 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <69712@cup.portal.com> John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com writes:
- > Subject: Dolphins.
- > Now at the cost of maybe starting a rior, I'm going to mention a few
- things
- > that Uri Geller has to say about Dolphins, so here goes; Uri claims
- Flipper
- > is really an alien from outer space and is here to share the secrets of
- his
- > own highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization with humanity (Well I
- > don't know about that. I've never seen a Dolphin driving a flying
- saucer,
- > have you?)
-
- I've never seen a Dolphin driving a flying saucer, but I also haven't seen
- a Bigfoot, a Grey, etc. driving one either. Besides, the only problem a
- dolphin flying saucer would have would be extra mass, from filling it with
- water.
-
- > Uri claims he once worked with the U.S. Navy in a hush-hush experiment
- to
- > turn dolphins into living torpedoes.
-
- This is certainly believable.
-
- > Their brains are much bigger than the human brain, and they can
- communicate
- > with each other even when they're thousands of miles apart . They can
- smile
- > and make facial expression to each other.
-
- Brain size isn't everything, of course (elephants also have larger brains)
- but they probably are intelligent. Sonar makes an effective long-distance
- communication mechanism. I seriously doubt the part about facial
- expressions, but do they really need them?
-
- > It is well-known that dolphins want to communicate with man-experiments
- have
- > already proved that.
-
- Um. Well, maybe. I'm not sure.
-
- > Once they learn to share their secrets with humanity, we'll understand
- the
- > miracles Geller says they can perform. Even now, friendly dolphins are
- being
- > used to help heal mentally handicapped children. I have found these less
- > fortunate kids relate more to the friendly dolphins than humans.
- > Dolphins, swim with mentally handicapped youngsters in pools under the
- > supervision of doctors. Amazingly, after each session, the kids show
- marked
- > improvement-and researchers are convinced the children are being healed
- by
- > sound waves transmitted by the gentle, caring mammals.
-
- I don't know about the sound waves part, but the rest is perfectly
- plausible. In fact, I think I might have heard something like this
- before.
-
- > Their highly developed sensors can instantly detect even the most minor
- > physical disorder. When a dolphin looks at a person underwater, it
- > automatically gives him a complete scan-better than a hospital
- ultra-scan
- > examination, believe me. It's like an X-ray with souund waves,
-
- This is true. But what can the dolphins do with their knowledge?
-
- > Instead of trying to unlock the incredible scientific and medical
- knowledge
- > stored in dolphins' brains, scientists are spending more time training
- them
- > to kill than they are doing research into how dolphins can be used to
- help
- > mankind.
-
- This is likely true, and not good; but this sort of thing is not confined
- to dolphins.
-
- > I once went to a secret training institute where dolphins were being
- geared
- > to carry deadly weapons.
- > Scientists there even nicknamed them Kamikaze Dolphins because of their
- > ability to aim themselves at ships, then there would be no trace of them
- > after the explosion.
-
- Some days I'm embarrassed to call myself a scientist.
-
- > The gentle creatures are being used as aquatic midwives to swim with
- mothers
- > during childbirth and help relax them.
-
- Just make sure the baby doesn't drown :-)
-
- > This is me (John Winston) talking now. That would be all well and good
- but
- > some people wouldn't believe anything Uri Geller says.
- > John Winston.
-
- I don't have much respect for anyone who said they wouldn't believe
- ANYTHING Uri says. It's just that a lot of what he says does fail to fit
- what the average scientist believes about the universe (and since a
- scientist studies the universe as a career, yd would know a bit more about
- the nature of the universe than the average person).
- --
- | Michael Agney | Yd - gender neutral pronoun |
- | | |
- | | Source: Stories by Alison |
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