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April 24, 2006
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mmmmmmmm...pop rocks...and first again, except what happened to the KInki University post? It was here for a couple of minutes and then disappeared...
Posted by: AFKAT | April 24, 2006 at 04:57 PM
As usual, all the best research is done for the military instead of something really useful.
Posted by: mudstuffin | April 24, 2006 at 04:57 PM
the tongue could be key in their quest to create the super warrior of the future, giving soldiers sensory powers similar to owls, snakes and fish.
Fish got tongues? Stranger yet: scientists have studied fish tongues?
*cue party noise*
female (w/sultry voice): So, Good Lookin'. What're YOU into?
researcher: Fish tongues!
female: EWWWW!
Posted by: MOTW | April 24, 2006 at 05:01 PM
It would allow soldiers to work in the dark without cumbersome night-vision goggles and to "see out the back of their heads," he said.
Shucks. My mom could do that!
Posted by: fivver | April 24, 2006 at 05:03 PM
Yeah, AFKAT, I wuz wonderin' the same thing ... wuz that your post first?
Meanwhile, back on this thread ... Probe? And Tongue!?
Obviously, not a G-rated newspaper ...
Posted by: O. the U(manity) | April 24, 2006 at 05:05 PM
Oh, and to repeat my first post on the now-disppeared Kinki U. post, rumour has it that Kim Basinger is joining the cast of 24...mmmm
Posted by: AFKAT | April 24, 2006 at 05:09 PM
I would like to donate my man to this scientific investigation. He always gets around beautifully in the dark - using only his tongue.
*I so lucky!*
Posted by: Punkin Poo | April 24, 2006 at 05:31 PM
Punkin Poo - again, TMI...
...and yes, we're jealous.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 24, 2006 at 05:33 PM
This story has so much potential the mind just boggles.
The best I can do is quote one of the test subjects who said:
"Whuth thid hu hay?"
Posted by: KCSteve | April 24, 2006 at 05:35 PM
I offer myself up for the advancement of science. No, not my tongue, idiot!
Posted by: Suzy Q | April 24, 2006 at 05:40 PM
Punkin: I'll bet he's happy he married you, and not your sister.
Posted by: Suzy Q | April 24, 2006 at 05:41 PM
Do our enemies have that many female secret agents? Instead of robots they should use this as a recruitment incentive. Hell, I'd go through basic training with the lure of confronting the likes of Xenia Onnatop.
Posted by: MartiniShark | April 24, 2006 at 06:07 PM
snakes got superhuman senses???
Posted by: AFKAT | April 24, 2006 at 06:07 PM
AFKAT --
That WUZ your post ... I thot so ...
... um ... I'll hafta post mine now, I s'pose ... lemmesee ... where'd I put it ...
Posted by: O. the U(manity) | April 24, 2006 at 07:20 PM
Punkin: I'll bet he's happy he married you, and not your sister.
BWA HA HA HA HA!
Posted by: KDF | April 24, 2006 at 08:22 PM
MOTW -- Most fish do have tongues, but that's probably not what they're talking about here. I imagine they are referring instead to a fish's lateral line, which is a super-sensitive organ that runs the length of their bodies. And they're probably referring to an owl's awesome eyesight and snake's versatile, ultra-sensitive forked tongues and its Jacobsen's organ which is located on the roof of its mouth. It can do tons of stuff -- feel, smell, pick up and identify chemical traces, even a form of heat imaging.
Posted by: Wavey | April 24, 2006 at 08:31 PM
Wavey - TMI....
Posted by: Kathy P. | April 24, 2006 at 09:27 PM
Hmm, well...I guess I just find that stuff interesting. Nature is never boring.
Posted by: Wavey | April 25, 2006 at 04:22 PM