The surprising thing should be that ANYTHING lives near the European coast what with all the pollution, concrete development, overfishing and bottom-trawling. Perhaps the dolphins were just the last ones left...someone has to switch the lights off.

And thanks for all the fish.

When he said that finally al the dolfins will leave the earth just before the demolition will take place? and is this the first wave leaving

There probably getting ready for there final attack with the Penguin Alliance.

More non IT news on a supposedly IT news website!

Anyone got a Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic handy?

If anyone heard them singing the star spangled banner before they left.... I'm sticking my thumb out.

What's the IT angle? The fact that the earth is the biggest and most powerful computer ever surely counts? Combined with dolphins being the second most intelligent part of that computer.

probably popped off for a chinese

They popped round to the Med for a pizza or kebab

I fear many of the commentators are refusing to maintain the "IT only" policy. Stuart is a prime case, scurrilously using "IT" but in a manner where no "IT" is actually referred to.

In future could all commentators keep their comments directly relating to "IT" and refrain from off topic issues.

There should be no OT in IT

Maybe the Japanese whaling fleet got confused, should have turned right after the Panama Canal but, you know, these things happen, and really they were all over the place, eating the fish, hogging the sofa.

Any true IT expert worth their salt is raised on Science Fiction. It's the only thing which keeps us going between service packs!

Getting back on subject, it is obvious the Dolphins have had enough of some of us playing that vile game - Cricket.

Belgium man!

The Reg is now publishing any articles that contain the word "it", which this one does.

If that is not relevance then just what is, eh?

First it was the dolphins in China, now these ... must be a trend ... time almost up for us I am afraid.

Dolphins are smart. No, really smart. Why hang around in the BoB being gawped at by the Pride of Bilbao researchers (who never throw any fish, never wave, etc) when you can head for Blighty and get all that attention from the holiday makers...

"What's the IT angle? The fact that the earth is the biggest and most powerful computer ever surely counts? Combined with dolphins being the second most intelligent part of that computer."

I'd say the most intelligent.

You don't see many dolphins winning Darwin Awards now do you?

Most intelligent marine mammals have now ditched such old school aquatic haunts as the real Bay of Biscay and now hang around in darkened rooms scouring the virtual, but much cooler, eBay of Biscay for the tastiest fishy meal deals.

First off, I'm sure you've got a macro to post that, since it's all i seem to recall you ever posting.

Secondly, when our dolphin overlords get back from arming themselves, I will watch with glee as they hunt everyone down with ray guns. Is that enough IT angle for you?

I for one, want to be the first to welcome our new Cetacean overlords.

quote: "I'd say the most intelligent. You don't see many dolphins winning Darwin Awards now do you?"

Nor mice who were the most intelligent part of that computer. :)

Followed by dolphins, then man.

I'm sure this will appear several times, in the period between comments updates.

:)

Weren't mice the species who commissioned Earth, rather than the most intelligent part of the computer?

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Any true IT expert worth their salt is raised on Science Fiction. It's the only thing

which keeps us going between service packs!

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And comedy. Science and science fiction, comedy and the appreciation of real literature. Like this masterpiece of expression here. :-) If you can manage to find science fiction and comedy in one place, you've got gold. Red Dwarf, for starters, although most acute observers will happily inform you that H2G2 was comedy too, if more subtle than the weakly-sitcom-like variety of Red Dwarf. They'll also tell you that H2G2 is required reading/listening, and that if you haven't done it you might as well crawl back into your cave until your species has evolved an appreciation for it, for then you will find the beginnings of a career in true IT professionalism. (Most people who actively hate H2G2 turn out to be Americans, I find, which is odd but can probably be explained by the unique way Douglas Adams writes which is distinctly heavy in British satire and depends on a reasonable understanding of culture.)

Cheers,

Sabahattin

...were merely projections into our world of pan-dimensional entities, if I remember rightly.

The (Lab) Mice are really just an extension of hyper-intelligent, multi-dimensional beings...

As for man being the third... don't quite re-call that part...

Lets be realistic...

How can someone call a species which has all this fascination with small pieces of coloured paper (which, for their part, are quite unmoved by all this attention), and which actually thinks that it has invented stuff which, as everyone knows, was present even in the first preview version of encyclopedia galactica as ancient history, "intelligent"?

they surely don't know that that big volcano in the Canary Islands is about to fall into the sea and crash land them somewhere in West Virginia, do they?

I guess scientists just aren't curious any more. They could learn a thing or two from dolphins - if they could find them.

Having just spent my holidays on the bay of Biscay, I think it is obvious why the dolphins have gone elsewhere: the weather is awful this year, they've gone somewhere warmer.

I do not see anything stating this is an "IT" only website. The category of Science with the subcategory of Biology sure seems to support my suspicions. Oo

Well, if Adams is correct...

Couple that with the the fact that my last two months were shit (lost my job, high pressure, extreme cognitive dissonance between migrating to Singapore or staying in Malaysia, almost lost something of importance to me)...

I guess at least it would end happily for me.

Although I'd prefer it if I could just somehow open a pan-dimensional portal and get to a better place instead.

Could you please, PLEASE ban for life any loser who whines about "no IT angle" when the section the article is published in is not IT anyway ?

Get their logon and LOCK IT OUT. Get their IP and prevent them from signing up again. Ban them from reading the site even.

Remarks like that only prove one thing : the guy has nothing to do here, he can't understand what he's looking at. So be nice to whatever is left of his brain cells and don't show him the awful letters that so confuse him.

And if he never comes back, well good riddance.

its on the science and biology tab, why dont you take notice and read the whole thing u idiot!

And if the Vogon's are on their way, make mine a double pangalacticgargleblaster.

Hear hear! Ban 'em all!

Just because the dolphins are leaving, there's no need to be rude about the "no IT angle" poster....it's not his fault.

Seriously, he's entitled to post and you're entitled to comment on him. But referring to him as a whiner and an idiot is just unnecessarily offensive. Sort of thing I see on footy forums, but I don't expect to see here.

Obviously the dolphins can't all fit into the spaceship at once, so the Chinese dolphines left first, and now the bay of Biscay Dolphins are being evacuated. Next month, it's US dolphins....

I'm impressed Mark that you can work the keyboard, not having opposible thumbs e.t.c. Or have u guys been developing a squeek n click interface? :)

I'm not surprised they're all going forth and disappearing - would you want to swim alongside a whole load of British, French, Spanish and other European Turds. Oh wait, we do, when we go on that £199 package holiday.

Also, is this study an excuse for the researches to make a regular booze-cruise?

And finally, I bow down in front of my wet grey bottlenosed overlords.

If it's not his fault, then just whose fault is it then? Somebody else who forced him to

write the "No IT angle"? If that is so then I sympathise with him, but I doubt it's the case, so -

I'd say it was exactly his fault and no-one elses.

yes, a broader awareness of the world is a wonderful thing. can we please have more stories with a deviant, SF or science angle? also, how about more privacy, human rights and bureaucratic dysfunction articles?

the gentleman is quite likely to be in or from the US, as the philosophy here is "if it doesn't make money, it isn't worthy of attention or effort". the curiosity to enjoy such topics is thus discarded, in favor of learning content that can be more easily monetized.

since a majority here also believe in Intelligent Design and/or Creationism, this guy probably forgot (or never knew about) basic natural selection: "too much specialization usually leads to extinction".

this is good news for the rest of us, as it makes Stuart a short-to-medium-term problem.

Hmm... Disappearing dolphins. A large empty patch discovered in the sky: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6962185.stm>. Could El Reg's quip at the end of this article perhaps be more perspicaceous than it at first appears?