Enviro's vs the U.S. : Whales + Sonar = Bad?

Post by **Cool Blue** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:55 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/06 ... index.html

Obviously.

Everytime a nation does those mass sonar tests pods and pods of whales go apeshite and end up beaching themselves trying to escape.

Hell, it happened in Spain last year or so. They Spanish navy did some sweeping sonar tests and like 50 whales jumped up onto the land shortly after.

Considering it's been proven already that marine life generally use sonar as one of it's main forms of sensory perception, it wouldn't seem so distant to suggest that synthetically generated sonar would cause damage or distress to them.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:30 pm

pretty sad.

Post by **Nightshade** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:51 pm

Maybe it makes the whales think that the nearest landmass is a giant whale hottie and they're all trying to bang her. They end up on the beach going "WTF?!?! This isn't whale poon!"

Post by **Pext** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:56 pm

Nightshade wrote:They end up on the beach going "WTF?!?! This isn't whale poon!"

lol...

well.. seriously: i don't think the military cares.

maybe in smaller countries protesters could acchieve something. but not against the allmighty US Army.
furthermore the whale-wing of greenpeace and co. is not really accepted in the public because they come off as hippies while the other fractions ( climate, nuclear, fishing ) are generally accepted... mostly because they all apply the overused term of 'sustainability'. :icon29:

Post by **Cool Blue** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:03 pm

What we need are DINGIES!

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:19 pm

Nightshade wrote:Maybe it makes the whales think that the nearest landmass is a giant whale hottie and they're all trying to bang her. They end up on the beach going "WTF?!?! This isn't whale poon!"

you know what NS,

i'm getting sick and tired of your callous attitude toward life...

if someone made a hologram of a naked hot stud, and fooled your mom into thinking it was real, and she ran toward the hologram and ended up tripping over a cliff, you think i'd laugh?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:48 pm

Where's riddla? I want another lesson in Alabama justice.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:49 pm

http://www.savethemanatee.org/

Post by **tnf** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:51 pm

jules might have just found a new purpose in life

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:56 pm

coincidentally, i'm going down to the beach tonight to commune with the manatees

Post by **Nightshade** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:05 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:
Nightshade wrote:Maybe it makes the whales think that the nearest landmass is a giant whale hottie and they're all trying to bang her. They end up on the beach going "WTF?!?! This isn't whale poon!"
you know what NS,

i'm getting sick and tired of your callous attitude toward life...

if someone made a hologram of a naked hot stud, and fooled your mom into thinking it was real, and she ran toward the hologram and ended up tripping over a cliff, you think i'd laugh?

You damn well better, I would.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:40 am

Nightshade wrote:
You damn well better, I would.

:icon34:

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:01 am

I'd laugh my ass off. Then watch it hobble down the street looking like a naked ass and shit. Cheeks flapping in the wind with no regard to human decency. Think of the children!!

Disclaimer: This reply may be tainted with alcohol.

Seriously though, if that's true then I've lost even more respect for the US military heads than I already have, which is quite a large amount.