Saw this and felt it was appropriate for here. And no, not making this up and this is not a joke:
Report: 3 Killer Commando Dolphins From Ukraine On The Loose
Sevastopol, Ukraine (CBS Seattle) ? Three elite Ukrainian commandos have gone AWOL.
The dolphins are highly trained, intelligent, and can strike anywhere.
Ukrainian media reported earlier this month that three military trained dolphins didn?t return to their base in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. The dolphins were reported to be out during a training exercise.
These particular dolphins are trained in the use of special knives and firearms to kill enemy divers. They are also adept in the use of explosives to sink enemy ships.
"Trained in the use of knives and firearms" is never a phrase I expected or wanted to hear associated with sea life.
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'Manimals' were an attempt to create a human/ape soldier under Stalin's regime. It is unknown how far the tests got.
The Purple Gang was a real thing during the prohibition era.
... or reality jumping the shark.
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I guess he just mentioned this for the halibut.
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I'm sure their training means they will not have a shellfish disregard for Human-life.
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They had a killer rhythm section.
Not too far. From what I understand the good Russian Dr. was looking for a female volunteer to carry the "Manimal" to term when Stalin decided to send him to Siberia. Of course the conspiracy is; he got away to South America and continued with his experiments there, although that seems unlikely.
From Wikipedia:
In the 1920s the Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create a human/non human ape hybrid. At first working with his own sperm and chimpanzee females, none of his attempts created a pregnancy.[6] In 1929 he organized a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers, but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.[6] The next year he fell under political criticism from the Soviet government and was sentenced to exile in the Kazakh SSR; he worked there at the Kazakh Veterinary-Zootechnical Institute and died of a stroke two years later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
Sometimes life is as strange as the comics; and remember Oct 20th is the feast of St Oliver the Humanzee
Next thing you know, they'll be dishonorably discharged from service and wander the oceans, homeless urchins.
Occam's Razor makes the cutting clean.
This is what happens when you don't keep a shark eye on your highly trained death machines.
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A trend?
Aqua Man or Namor rescuing their subjects?
Whose the CO IP equivalent?
While she has been rescued
what diabolical mastermind
was behind the devious brain-napping of
the Volterrific Dr Cerebellum?
Amphibian comes to mind but I'm not entirely sure.