From: kanga.caltech.edu!magney (Michael Agney)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Dolphin-Aliens?
Date: 18 Nov 1992 19:09:26 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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In article <69712@cup.portal.com> John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com writes:
> Subject: Dolphins.
>   Now at the cost of maybe starting a rior, I'm going to mention a few  
things 
> that Uri Geller has to say about Dolphins, so here goes; Uri claims  
Flipper 
> is really an alien from outer space and is here to share the secrets of  
his 
> own highly advanced extraterrestrial civilization with humanity (Well I 
> don't know about that. I've never seen a Dolphin driving a flying  
saucer, 
> have you?)

I've never seen a Dolphin driving a flying saucer, but I also haven't seen
a Bigfoot, a Grey, etc. driving one either.  Besides, the only problem a
dolphin flying saucer would have would be extra mass, from filling it with
water.

>   Uri claims he once worked with the U.S. Navy in a hush-hush experiment  
to 
> turn dolphins into living torpedoes. 

This is certainly believable.

>   Their brains are much bigger than the human brain, and they can  
communicate 
> with each other even when they're thousands of miles apart .  They can  
smile 
> and make facial expression to each other.

Brain size isn't everything, of course (elephants also have larger brains)
but they probably are intelligent.  Sonar makes an effective long-distance
communication mechanism.  I seriously doubt the part about facial
expressions, but do they really need them?
 
>  It is well-known that dolphins want to communicate with man-experiments  
have 
> already proved that. 

Um.  Well, maybe.  I'm not sure.

>   Once they learn to share their secrets with humanity, we'll understand  
the 
> miracles Geller says they can perform. Even now, friendly dolphins are  
being 
> used to help heal mentally handicapped children. I have found these less 
> fortunate kids relate more to the friendly dolphins than humans. 
>  Dolphins, swim with mentally handicapped youngsters in pools under the 
> supervision of doctors.  Amazingly, after each session, the kids show  
marked 
> improvement-and researchers are convinced the children are being healed  
by 
> sound waves transmitted by the gentle, caring mammals.  

I don't know about the sound waves part, but the rest is perfectly
plausible.  In fact, I think I might have heard something like this
before.

>  Their highly developed sensors can instantly detect even the most minor 
> physical disorder.  When a dolphin looks at a person underwater, it 
> automatically gives him a complete scan-better than a hospital  
ultra-scan 
> examination, believe me.  It's like an X-ray with souund waves,

This is true.  But what can the dolphins do with their knowledge?

>  Instead of trying  to unlock the incredible scientific and medical  
knowledge 
> stored in dolphins' brains, scientists are spending more time training  
them 
> to kill than they are doing research into how dolphins can be used to  
help 
> mankind.  

This is likely true, and not good; but this sort of thing is not confined
to dolphins.

>   I once went to a secret training institute where dolphins were being  
geared 
> to carry deadly weapons. 
>  Scientists there even nicknamed them Kamikaze Dolphins because of their 
> ability to aim themselves at ships, then there would be no trace of them 
> after the explosion.  

Some days I'm embarrassed to call myself a scientist.

>  The gentle creatures are being used as aquatic midwives to swim with  
mothers 
> during childbirth and help relax them.

Just make sure the baby doesn't drown :-)

>   This is me (John Winston) talking now. That would be all well and good  
but 
> some people wouldn't believe anything Uri Geller says.
> John Winston.

I don't have much respect for anyone who said they wouldn't believe
ANYTHING Uri says.  It's just that a lot of what he says does fail to fit
what the average scientist believes about the universe (and since a
scientist studies the universe as a career, yd would know a bit more about
the nature of the universe than the average person).
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