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Fascinating scientific stuff

Exactly. We know dolphins are smart. Really smart. But do they really "know" what they are doing?

I can't help but wonder if the money spent on SETI shouldn't be spent trying to translate dolphin-speak and whalesong. After all, if we can figure out what dolphins and whales are saying then we will be better prepared for any true "alien" communications.
 
And yet they're still here, trying to guilt us out of more fish before they leave. Freeloading bastards.
 
beer good said:
You can teach a dog to shake hands, but that doesn't mean it knows what it's doing.
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Yes, interesting point of view :)

sparkchaser said:
But do they really "know" what they are doing?
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In the last section of this article says :
Dolphins, like birds, are known copy-cats, but their mimicry has always been confined to the time right after hearing an odd sound, at least as far as anyone knew. This suggests that they could be rehearsing their daily shows in their minds at night...It's possible the dolphins are even asleep as they make the whale-like noises, meaning they are essentially sleep-talking in 'whale.
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Supposedly, these 5 dolphins were born in captivity ... I think, they have associated this sound at something happens at dolphinarium and maybe, 'easy to mimic' ... On the other hand, there are a group of marine biologists studying this kind of dialects between dolphins and whales on the high seas ... Really fascinating for me !! (( I posted an article about this topic, months ago ... ))
 
All they have to do is tighten the cable and re-do the experiment. They don't even need to do it 15,000 times again, a few dozen should suffice.

The portion of Einstein's theory that says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light will be proven wrong someday. I've always been afraid to say that in public because Einstein has near-deity status; it's akin to a small child in Sunday school saying there's no god.

Human ingenuity is indefatigable. We will travel faster than the speed of light someday because we have to.

When archaelologists are diggin us up 10,000 years from now and they discover the hard drives for B&R, my posting here will have been proven right. A monument will be erected in my honor, and I hereby request that it be a bronze statue of me wielding a sword over a defeated Einsteinista.
 
I hereby second Hugh's request. All praise Hugh and his fight over the vicious Einsteinista.
 
We're not one step closer to warp drives, after all?
Will have to rip up my Star Fleet Academy application form. :(
 
Weather Changes Make a Bird Not Faithful !! ​

Many different species of birds are monogamous although the marriage, disputes, and divorce also occur in birds.
Researchers revealed that in the Uncertain Weather, the birds become less loyal. (( This is not a new excuse for the human being ... :whistling: ))
In birds, Infidelity is measured through paternity tests comparing DNA from parents sharing an offspring in the nest. Divorce is measured by how birds pair off. When two birds are paired one year but seek new partners the next, they are considered “divorced.”
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Birds' Mating Patterns Change with the Weather | International Expeditions

 
So it turns out that for all our talk of "races", Homo Sapiens is a lot less genetically diverse than chimpanzees living just a few kilometres apart:

Genetic diversity among chimpanzees reveals just how closely related humans really are

"Relatively small numbers of humans left Africa 50,000-100,000 years ago. All non-African populations descended from them, and are reasonably similar genetically. That chimpanzees from habitats in the same country, separated only by a river, are more distinct than humans from different continents is really interesting. It speaks to the great genetic similarities between human populations, and to much more stability, and less interbreeding, over hundreds of thousands of years, in the chimpanzee groups."
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Speaking of which, What Were the Consequences of Early Human & Neanderthal Interbreeding?
 
Trying to convince people in general that there is no such thing a "race" in the biological sense is an exercise in futility.
 
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