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Are those equinox lights?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/internation...1577753,00.html From the Guardian, a serious UK news site - I can't believe this is a serious news article!! Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina by Mark Townsend Houston Sunday September 25, 2005 The Observer It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing. Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the US defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly. Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped. 'My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,' he said. 'The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?' Usually dolphins were controlled via signals transmitted through a neck harness. 'The question is, were these dolphins made secure before Katrina struck?' said Sheridan. The mystery surfaced when a separate group of dolphins was washed from a commercial oceanarium on the Mississippi coast during Katrina. Eight were found with the navy's help, but the dolphins were not returned until US navy scientists had examined them. Sheridan is convinced the scientists were keen to ensure the dolphins were not the navy's, understood to be kept in training ponds in a sound in Louisiana, close to Lake Pontchartrain, whose waters devastated New Orleans. The navy launched the classified Cetacean Intelligence Mission in San Diego in 1989, where dolphins, fitted with harnesses and small electrodes planted under their skin, were taught to patrol and protect Trident submarines in harbour and stationary warships at sea. Criticism from animal rights groups ensured the use of dolphins became more secretive. But the project gained impetus after the Yemen terror attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Dolphins have also been used to detect mines near an Iraqi port.

This seems like Chrysler's halo car to me. Makes sense, the Viper and Crossfire are both halo vehicles, carrying very different messages for Dodge and Chrysler.

I converted the 70.6 km/l to mpg myself and got 167.7 mpg, something is wrong. The usual metric efficiency measure is l/100km. 70.6 km/l = roughly 1.5 l/100km. This is quite impossible, since the Smart ForTwo gets 3.9 l/100km (lower numbers = lower consumption)

The article talks all about the application, and what the product can do, but it doesn't explain how it works. My roommate says she would never use that thing, not enough privacy.

I see Cobalt parts bin...

New headlights are not as good as the old ones.

The only gas station I could find in Brantford yesterday was out of regular - so they had supreme on for $1.03 Sweet deal, considering.

Very mature. I should have expected exactly what it was, coming from Panther. (not a bad thing!) :P

Greet her with your peter

Jog out with your log out?

My first car was a '91 Trans Sport with the individual bucket seats all around. I kept a blanket and pillows in the very back, and I could move all the seats up and out of the way, and have a flat space slightly smaller than a double bed... Very helpful when you and your girlfriend both live at home with conservative parents! :)

Do you guys honestly think there would have been any confusion? I think this is a little silly...

I have to lean out of my Cobalt to grab the door when it's all the way out, and I'm 6'.

Work desktop. Slightly different form of transport featured :) It's a picture from one of the recent mountain bike races I went to.

The corvair is in surprisingly good shape. Looking at that LeSabre - I thought that was the Invicta?? or was that the coupe?

I remember hearing when these vortecs came out that they were well-balanced and were therefore brought out in a complete line from 4 to 8 cylinders. Do you guys think the 7-cyl will ever see an application? If so, would it be the first ever?

Now that I have image editing capabilities again (GIMP! F*** expensive photoshop!) I willl be entering this comp...

He's just trying to say things were more advanced in 1969.

Kind of bland... Then again, at least it's not ugly like the Uplander!

That's got to be one of the strangest rooflines I've ever seen.

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Why do I suddenly feel like Ray Charles? I can't see ****! :CG_all:

Still love this front end. I think this shows how the Chevy truck front end could be adapted to cars.

Viper??? You freaking sellout... :P