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The World's First Bionic Sea Creature: Winter the Dolphin

dailymail.co.uk — As she glides through the water, Winter the dolphin appears to be completely normal. But she is the world's first bionic sea creature after being fitted with an artificial tail. Only closer inspection reveals the dolphin's rear end is entirely prosthetic. Winter the Dolphin, lost her own tail after being caught in a harsh crab trap.

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  • fadeout, on 05/05/2008, -16/+6Too bad it wants a bag of coke in order to restore your busted hard drives.

    /obscure?
    • ConceptualTrap, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4Johnny Neumonic?
      • elamr, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Should have been called "WINTERMUTE"

        *obscure William Gibson + Bionic dolphin Joke.. you see the dolphins NAME is winter and William Gibson wrote a book called Neuromance which feature an AI called Wintermute whic... is going to get dugg down because.. nobody freakin' cares... carry on.
    • EricAnderton, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Jones FTW.

      "If I wanted the silicon dug out of my back brain I would have gone to Mexico City! I want a full restoration; I want it all back! "
  • Jennadickes, on 05/05/2008, -3/+25Ah but can she still do flips and twirls on demand?
    Really though, this story makes me happy.
  • orangefly, on 05/05/2008, -2/+6nanananana....splash....nanananana....splash....
    • HueytheFreeman, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3How much is that dolphin in the window?
      The one with the prosthetic tail?
  • mandarin, on 05/05/2008, -6/+23If you're looking for me....
    You gotta check under the sea....
    Cause that is where you'll find me ...
    Underneath the SEEAAAAAALAAABBB


    (damn i cant get it out of my head)
  • Scynet, on 05/05/2008, -2/+16I always knew dolphins couldn't have enough power in their tails to jump to space. Should've seen this coming. So long, and thanks for all the prostethics...
  • cerejota, on 05/05/2008, -1/+12THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR!!!
    • Culyt, on 05/05/2008, -0/+9In the interest of sentient-dolphin human relations please allow me to express the following in trinary:
      ♪ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♪ ♫ 。 ♫ ♪ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♫ ~ ♫ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♪ ♪ ~ ♪ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♪ ♫ ~
      ♫ ♪ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♫ ~ ♫ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♪ ♪ ~ ♪ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♫ ♪ 。 ♪ ♪ ♫ ~ ♫ ♪ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♪ ~
      ♫ ♪ ♫ ~ ♫ ♫ ♪ ~ ♪ ♫ ♪ ~ ♫ ♪ ♪ 。
    • chrisduser, on 05/05/2008, -4/+1Singularity will never arrive.
  • Hobbes24, on 05/05/2008, -6/+15i for one welcome our bionic dolphin overlords!
    • thespudmall, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1beat me to it!
    • GlassAgate, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3All praise our future dolphin overlords!
      For, one day, they'll return to the land,
      that was once theirs', and, we humans,
      shall happily move into the seas that they've
      occupied for centuries.
  • COINTELPRO, on 05/05/2008, -10/+4Wow, you can call me and talk about the same things and note what I did online. I think somebody is missing a chromosome or exposed to lead.

    5 years? Let make it 10, 20, 30, 40 years of unemployment, lets get even more crazy and sadistic about it. North Korea isn't even close to what I can do.
    • i4mt3hwin, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8What the hell are you talking about?
    • caramba420, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Dude, what the ***** are you talking about??
    • h0ly, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8I think somebody is missing a chromosome or exposed to lead...
    • Roger, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7Dugg for making no sense.
    • elamr, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2Did you manage to comment in the wrong section?
    • MacParrot, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1I don't even think his comment was meant for digg much less this article.
  • TheBogie, on 05/05/2008, -4/+10I hope that prosthetic flipper doesn't wreck the blades at the tuna factory. Or even worse, end up in my tuna melt. That would suck.
    • PhattyPhattMatt, on 05/05/2008, -1/+9Dugg for politically incorrect humor that was actually funny.
      • Tyrghast, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3how is this politically incorrect? Dolphins are not politics!
        • PhattyPhattMatt, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1if you know how tuna are captured for consumption, then you would know that it was a politically hott topic. The Japanese net and kill dolphins on a regular basis, (and so do the brazilians too).
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cixzo-msziQ
          • piwy, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1The fact that you don't eat dolphin does not make it wrong for the japanese and brazilians to do so.
    • dave122, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2The Dolphins are in the tuna nets! The Dolphins are in the tuna nets!

      What about the tuna?
      • PhattyPhattMatt, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Oh, the tuna? We eat those, good eats too!
  • khanable, on 05/05/2008, -7/+3so long and thanks for all the fish!

    and I'd so play with that chick's fish.
    • edwartica, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1If the chick has a fish, I don't think she's really a chick at all!
  • Lagstorm, on 05/05/2008, -5/+0So long and thanks for all the fish.
  • OfNumbers, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4They already did this in Japan almost 5 full years ago. Just google it.
  • ChronicColonic, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12Winter, crab trap sufferer. A dolphin barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic dolphin. Winter will be that dolphin. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.
    • MadN, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2And canceled part way into the first season when everyone starts watching it!
      • cmuwriter, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1That show ***** blew, you and everyone else knew it.
  • caramba420, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1I'd let that girl wiggle her tail for me anytime.
  • gilgsn, on 05/05/2008, -3/+1Why does this matter at all when thousands are killed on purpose by fishermen and the fishing industry?
    • meruru, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Now we can replace them with bionic dolphins
    • N1tro, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Well this is only the first step, the second is to arm these bionic dolphins and have them fight back... duh!
  • 0260, on 05/05/2008, -2/+6first we give them tails, then it will be guns. we are just asking for a dolphin uprising
    • Goombellaofgoom, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1I thought it was sharks we were giving the lasers to...
  • trappleton, on 05/05/2008, -0/+25Is it really bionic if it's just a prosthetic?
    • PhattyPhattMatt, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6point well taken, it is now under further review...
      • caramba420, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1We have top men working on it right now.
        Who?
        Top men...
        • PhattyPhattMatt, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1To be more specific, My Top Men are working on it, right now.
    • acdcfanbill, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5I think it was because when the dolphin would swim in slow mo, the aquarium would play a noise like 'nunununununun'.
    • cnot3, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4The article failed to mention the nuclear reactor and gps that are installed in the tail.
  • Amorn, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1more than meets the eyes
  • AndrewDB, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1We can build him to make him faster, stronger, better.. He is ..

    The Billion Dollar Flipper.
  • J4k3, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Finally a great story to read. This week's been really depressing.
  • Mightbiteyou, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6Beginning “freakin laser beams” jokes in 3, 2, 1…..
  • ntacsback, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1We have the money, we can rebuild her.
  • coresnake, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4ITS A CRAB TRAP
  • aserer511, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1"must...kill...flipper..."
  • garethkeenan, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1"We want the key to Johnny's bank, Jones. We want it fast."
  • insonh, on 05/05/2008, -2/+1in Russia Dolphins Bionic "YOU"
  • k1down, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2Check out this t-shirt I did for a little girl about a year ago. She said she sold them all. They were to pay for this new prosthetic fin. Apparently her fund raiser was a success! It's a simple and cute shirt! Checkitout!

    http://i32.tinypic.com/32zs58w.jpg
  • insonh, on 05/05/2008, -4/+2GOD DAMN BIONIC FLIPPER DOLPHINS!

    Bionic flipper dolphins invented the AIDS virus too use against people of color

    Bionic flipper dolphins loose their tails on 911 and they have the nerve to be indignant?

    During world war 2 bionic flipper dolphins ate thousand of sardines in the ocean….and they didn’t bat a flipper!

    The bionic flippers dolphins chickens…..are coming home to roost!
  • ryotamasaki, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Another bionic sea animal.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/08 ...
  • ColorBlind, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3WHERE'S THE FREAKIN LASER BEAM?!?!?
  • diggydougie, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4Not bionic. Just a prosthetic device. No electronics, no motors or anything mechanical.
  • kernelRiot, on 05/05/2008, -5/+4What an enormous waste of money and resources... But I guess it's silly to think of the 24,000 people who die a day of hunger when a dolphin might not swim well, right?

    This is exactly why our economy isn't sustainable, because we blow so much money on such asinine things.
    • MacParrot, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1Well MAYBE if some of those 24,000 people would flap around pathetically in the water due to getting caught in a harsh crab trap THEY could have bionic tails too. Man, you can lead 24,000 people a day to water but you can't make them swim.
    • MsArtGeek, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3Yes, because marine biologists and prosthetics designers are naturally uniquely qualified to solve chronic world hunger issues, which are clearly as simple as reallocating a few specialized scientists to solve. Do you have a newsletter?
      • kernelRiot, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1Yes, would you care to subscribe?
  • AzMegladon, on 05/05/2008, -3/+2Hey, maybe next we can use these resources on actual people, but first lets take care of the ***** animals first huh? ***** morons.
    • iindigo, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4Oh yeah, I'm sure that the --marine biologists-- will get right on that, doing human surgery and everything.

      Dumbass.

    • MacParrot, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2The next time you drive off a bridge and have a car filling with water, you'll just WISH there was some bionic dolphin nearby to save you, but it will be too late.
  • Dunge, on 05/05/2008, -2/+1Who pay for this?
  • llewner, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5This isn't real bionics. We all know that real bionics have gears and wires and moving parts. This is just a rubber butt sock!
  • DevCorvin, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2Misleading title, it's just a piece of plastic.

    Buried for inaccuracy.
  • Vocifer, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1What about the bionic dolphin with a real tail?
  • loganhid, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1remember the dolphin on Command and Conquer red alert 2
    • MasterGrief, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1That little guy killed submarines!
  • antdude, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1Coming to NBC soon:
    1. Flipper, the Bionic Dolphin! (Flipper)
    OR
    2. Darwin, the Bionic Dolphin! (SeaQuest DSV)
  • Nature1, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0Stories like these make my day for some reason...
  • AndreRollins, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1How cool is that! Who cares that it's not really bionic - dolphins have saved many a human life. Let's help them out if we can.
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