Did Navy Tests Kill Porpoises?

[dArKeR]

Scientists from around the country have begun necropsies on more than a dozen harbor porpoises found last spring, hoping to discover whether Navy sonar tests contributed to their deaths.

The scientists began work Tuesday in the dissection room at the National Marine Mammal Lab, part of the National Marine Fisheries Service's regional headquarters on Lake Washington.

The exams will help determine whether mid-range sonar testing May 5 by the guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup was a factor in any of the deaths. Environmental groups say the sonar can interfere with marine mammals' communication systems.

In all, 13 dead porpoises were found beached or floating between May 2 and May 20 - eight of them on or after May 5. Two carcasses floated away, so scientists are working with the nine carcasses and two heads recovered.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/23/tech/main564700.shtml

Let's play some more GOP games and pretend we don't know that sonar is killing the sea life. It's really tobacco killing them.

Don't mean to piss on your happy day but there's not much hope for the Earth or it's God given life. Just look at the amount of instinct species and extrapolate that to daily lost habitat. You a really GOPer if you can't figure out the result. Let's be GOP and pretend it's not happening.

TAKE BACK OUR EARTH

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[bahrbearian]

1. They paved Paradise and put up a SEA WORLD

[KittyWampus]

2. Porpoises Can't Drive Hummers

So who needs them....

[ScotTissue]

4. Actually

I don't think there's been enough research as to whether a porpoise can pilot a hummer.

A lot of tired white women shoppers could probably USE a porpoise chaueffer for their hummer, uncomfortable as they are with reg'lar minority chauffers....

[chiburb]

3. Probably. n/t

.

[dArKeR]

5. extinct - oops

[DeathvadeR]

6. The US military doesn't care if harm comes to.......

the very soldiers that fight in its name, What makes you think they are going to give a rats ass about some sealife.