“They go into stealth mode – completely silent,” said Dr Deecke [from the University of St Andrews in Scotland]. “This raises the question: how are they communicating?”
It seems that orcas can carry out complex, co-ordinated mammal-hunting trips without “talking to each other” at all.
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Dr Deecke thinks that the orcas might “rehearse” their hunting routines, to learn the position of each group member.
“They tend to be very predictable,” he said. “I often know exactly where they are going to surface.”
Very predictable stealth mode? Funny. I assume he is trying to make a point with the contradiction in what he is describing.
“Terrorism is a crime against humanity for which there can never be any justification,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters. “But then again, so is a 130,000-ton boat with an indoor ice skating rink, 24-hour buffet access, and a dance club called the Caliente Lounge. To condemn al-Qaeda outright for this attack would be to ignore the fact that, well, you can’t really argue with them on this one.”
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Foreign leaders in France, Britain, and Germany, as well as citizens in the Carnival Cruise port city of St. Thomas, have joined the U.S. in issuing strongly worded statements of their own, saying that the suspected architect of the attack, Ayman al-Zawahiri, did the United States a huge favor. In addition, sources in the State Department said their only problem with the strike was that it wasn’t on a Disney cruise ship, which they claimed would have allowed al-Qaeda to kill two birds with one stone.
The word “exciting” comes up multiple times in the video of AC45 catamaran construction, which shows how modern sailing boats can be large and strong yet ultra light. Designed and built at the same time, it is expected to be on the water this weekend.
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