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    Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers

    US Armed Forces Listened for Messages from Mars

    Navy Battleship with a Cloaking Device

    The Navy's Explosive Super Weapon Crushes Speed Records
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/25/09

    In reply to Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers
    So the goal is to have them perform sea-tizen arrests?
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/25/09

    @Roklimber: AR AR AR! *Slaps flippers together*
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/25/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Calm down. Don't be so seal-ly.
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/25/09

    This has my seal of approval.
    (I'd be lion, if I said it didn't)
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    Edited by SJ_Edwards at 11/25/09 7:43 PM SJ_Edwards was starred SJ_Edwards was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/25/09

    @SJ_Edwards:

    Thank you. I'm happy you didn't con-seal your approval.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    11/25/09

    In reply to Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers
    how long will it be before the sea lions team up with the dolphins and use all that military training to overthrow their human masters?

    Hopefully not too long. Humanity's power trip is getting a little old.

    Or hey, maybe one day technologically superior aliens will come down and train humans to dangerous jobs for them, so we can see what it's like.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    11/25/09

    @Anekanta - former space marine: sounds possible .
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    11/25/09

    @disatess: It may be, I'm not sure.

    It reminds me of H.G. Wells' famous critique of European Colonialism in War of the Worlds.

    But really I'm just expressing a little rage on behalf of the natural world.

    Still, I think I'd laugh loudly and ironically if I saw footage of angry sea lions brandishing stolen M16's while rampaging through a naval base on the nightly news...
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    Image of disatess disatess
    11/25/09

    @Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon: I understand As I said earlier ,keep the conflict between us humans .
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    Image of greenie31001 greenie31001
    12:34 AM

    @Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon:
    Um, the Navy already does that, too...

    What's that? They're volunteers? You don't remember the draft...
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/25/09

    In reply to Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers
    I, for one, would welcome are new Cetacean and Pinniped overlords.

    Seriously though, this is super cute - I hope they give them ranks and teach them to salute.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/25/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: +1
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/25/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I think it would be much cuter watching everyone lower than the sea lions saluting them.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/25/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I know this is srs bizness, but if they don't teach the sea lions to salute, it is such a waste.
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    Image of sharkish sharkish
    11/25/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Can someone photoshop this into existence until we get the real thing, please?
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    Image of geekgrrl geekgrrl
    11/09/09

    In reply to US Armed Forces Listened for Messages from Mars
    ah, the Mars Opposition. I remember those days.. waiting in the trenches on Phobos, shotty at the ready.. the moment I saw that Cyberdemon, I knew I had to get the hell outta Dodge. #mars
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    Image of CoyoteBrown CoyoteBrown
    11/09/09

    @geekgrrl: So you're the one who ran. the entire flank rolled up that night, and we lost the 3rd and the 4th. I still lie awake at night, screaming. #mars
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    Image of 0kami 0kami
    11/08/09

    In reply to US Armed Forces Listened for Messages from Mars
    So funny that it was Amherst College that did this. Though considering that we now have an Extraterrestrial Studies course at Hampshire, maybe they should hand us over the reins the next time Mars comes back. #mars
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/08/09

    In reply to US Armed Forces Listened for Messages from Mars
    This totally begs for an alternate history novel. #mars
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    Image of FiletOfBaby FiletOfBaby
    11/08/09

    @Chip Overclock: Does short story count, because I'm already submitting this bitch. #mars
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/08/09

    @Chip Overclock: It's yours man, I'll vouch that it was your idea. #mars
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/08/09

    @lostarchitect: Ideas are cheap. The value is in the execution. #mars
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    Image of Dresan Dresan
    11/08/09

    @FiletOfBaby: To where do you submit short stories? #mars
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/09/09

    @Chip Overclock: With a possible tie-in to the 15 years' later War of the Worlds radio broadcast. #mars
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/09/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Excellent! #mars
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11/08/09

    In reply to US Armed Forces Listened for Messages from Mars
    i never got why we assume that alien life would use technology compatible with ours. #mars
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/08/09

    @GreyHammer: Politeness. #mars
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    11/08/09

    @GreyHammer: Its the best way to communicate with a race that is determined not to take Global Warming, economic depression and pollution for an answer. Next thing will be giving humanity messages via our iPhones. There really is an app for everything. #mars
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    Image of gallahad gallahad
    11/08/09

    @GreyHammer: Considering how prevalent electromagnetic radiation is across the universe, it's not a crazy assumption. And radio frequencies are a pretty good subset of the spectrum (easy to make, low power, good permeability, etc). Of all of the things we assume other life will be like us, I think this as a mode of long-range communication is a pretty safe assumption. #mars
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    11/08/09

    @GreyHammer: physics... #mars
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    Image of nagumi nagumi
    11/08/09

    In reply to US Armed Forces Listened for Messages from Mars
    Well sure we didn't hear anything. The Martians were only listening as well. Someone should have SAID something. #mars
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