Loop it through Jones.
Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile
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#12These days you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided. This is it: https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/
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#13red alert 2 vibes
Yeah, using sonar dolphins to defend against killer squids
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#14Brings to mind Karel Kapek's 1936 "The War with the Newts". He is better known for his 1920 play, "R.U.R.", or "Rossum's Universal Robots", which brought "robot" into English. Both explore the self-deception character of attempts at imposing servitude. The US has still not processed its varied experience.
Nit: not Kapek but Čapek, where the Č reads like "ch" in "chair".
Sounds that were missing from classical Latin are still not interoperable across languages using the Latin script.
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#15All these links and no 'Johnny Mnemonic' reference. Takes place in 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film)
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#16and to think some other people on the internet almost convinced me not to take a load of tax deductions....
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#17This was the most fascinating thing about David Brin's "Startide Rising". And I never forgot that book in my life.
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#18Brings to mind Karel Kapek's 1936 "The War with the Newts". He is better known for his 1920 play, "R.U.R.", or "Rossum's Universal Robots", which brought "robot" into English. Both explore the self-deception character of attempts at imposing servitude. The US has still not processed its varied experience.
Nit: not Kapek but Čapek, where the Č reads like "ch" in "chair". Sounds that were missing from classical Latin are still not interoperable across languages using the Latin script.
> Sounds that were missing from classical Latin are still not interoperable across languages using the Latin script.
Sure, but it's hard to blame that on the phonology of classical Latin. Sounds that were present in Latin are also not interoperable across languages using Latinate scripts. The sounds in a language change over time, and they do it much, much faster than the spelling does.
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#19This isn't exactly a secret or new information... it was pretty well known when I lived on the peninsula 10+ years ago (thus the username, Poulsbohemian...). There's a state park right near the Hood Canal bridge where it isn't uncommon to watch the submarines come and go in and out of the canal. Always a bit surreal to push your kids on the swings while watching a first strike weapon capable of destroying the world pass by ;-D. I don't recall the name of the street, but there are houses with views across the water to what locals believed to be the dolphin pens...
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#20Reminds me of the dogs the Russians trained to deliver bombs to the Germans. However, in the chaos of war, the dogs would get scared and run back to the owners with the bomb, killing the Russians.