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    Jesse Astle: lol, Navy Seals. But seriously, I'm not all that sure about the morality of using seals in the military. Dogs and horses are, in essence, bred by hu... more »
    sharkish: Guys, they taught these sea lions how to cuff enemy divers! With leg cuffs! I need to get me a sea lion army... more »
    king_saberhawk: It wont be long before we sea our sea animal friends engaged in combat Red Alert style more »
    collex: Why am I thinking of the addicted dolphin veteran in Johnny Mnemonic (the short story)? more »
    brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(: Does the Navy fire the seals or sea lions if they find out they are gay? more »
    Dayburner: Come on everyone knows it's the sea otters that pose the biggest threat. more »
    closeencounter: This is not much different from intelligent dogs doing bomb sniffer work, or attack dogs for the police or military. I can't say whether the sea lions... more »
    Spider Sister: One oil spill. That's all it'd take to defeat America's sea lion army. more »
    grimdeath9740: I keep visualizing the dolphins in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou :P more »
    Roklimber: So the goal is to have them perform sea-tizen arrests? more »
    Lunargent: Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs. "Oh shit," says humanity. [www.theonion.com] more »
    disatess: let`s keep the conflict between us retarded humans , I mean ones who think war is the answer to everything . more »
    cadrina: And I can't even have a trained monkey to reach for the remote for me. more »
    CarrerCrytharis: Well, they already had Navy SEALs, so it's a natural progression. more »
    vonamarak: AND find passwords to data storage implants! more »
    Anekanta - Go Play!: 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... more »
    RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!: 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 ... more »
    geekgrrl: 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 ... more »
    0kami: So funny that it was Amherst College that did this. Though considering that we now have an Extraterrestrial Studies course at Hampshire, maybe they sh... more »
    Chip Overclock: This totally begs for an alternate history novel. #mars more »
  • #navysealions

    Navy-Trained Sea Lions Ready to Arrest Enemy Divers

    Dolphins aren't the only aquatic mammals fighting human battles. The US Navy has long been training sea lions as equipment retrievers and underwater sentries. Now they plan to outfit a naval base with mine-sweeping, diver-trapping sea lions. More »
  • #xenocommunications

    US Armed Forces Listened for Messages from Mars

    In 1924, Earth saw its closest Mars opposition in over a century, and some thought our Martian neighbors might use the event to attempt contact. So for one night, US Naval and Army stations scanned the skies for extraterrestrial transmissions. More »
  • #invisibility

    Navy Battleship with a Cloaking Device

    Meet the first (semi) invisible warship: it's painted in "low reflectivity" materials that make it hard to see on radar. While not invisible to the naked eye, this Swedish ship, called the Visby Corvette, is for all intents and purposes invisible to many of the instruments Navies would use to pick it up. Researchers say the next generation of high-stealth ships like this might be invisible to the naked eye, too. Want to see more of this invisible ship? More »
  • #railgun

    The Navy's Explosive Super Weapon Crushes Speed Records

    Here are some photos of the Navy testing its new electromagnetic railgun at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. The railgun fires at 10.44 megajoules, with a muzzle velocity of 2520 meters per second. Click through for more details and a gallery of splodey pics. More »