This has got to be a hoax, right? Armed dolphins, trained to shoot terrorist divers, have gone AWOL after Katrina. It’s in The Guardian, not The Onion. Possibly I slipped into a parallel universe or something, though.
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Tore Vesterby
Trust me, armed dolphins are not a hoax or even sci-fi. I have an old friend who has been on training missions with these “animal operatives”. He claims they are ¸berhardcore and very, very expensive to train and maintain. So you’re still in the boring old three dimensions of the Milky Way, Jill. Sorry to disappoint you.
JosÈ Angel
O my… I foresee combined armies of chimps and robots. Please disappoint me!
trond
I’m afraid we’ve all slipped into a parallell universe. Check this.
nick
It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase Navy SEAL.”
John Norvell
Huge discussion of this on Slashdot this week.