Sunday, September 25, 2005

I hope that Douglas Adams was right

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, chapter 23, paragraph 1:

"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."

Let us all hope that he was right, that dolphins are smarter than us. Let's hope that the allegedly armed, Navy-trained dolphins that are allegedly missing in the Gulf of Mexico following Katrina's wrath are smarter than us and will enjoy their freedom. Let's hope they're smart enough to shake off their toxic dart guns. Let's also hope there aren't any sharks with fricking laser beams attached to their heads swimming about.

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