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Awesome, Dolphins Blowing Rings and Playing With Them - Video
Now That's Nifty ^ | 04 27 09 | Nick

Posted on 04/27/2009 2:16:58 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative

You may or may not have seen this before, but it is pretty neat. The video is on site.

Dolphins create bubble rings by blowing air in a water vortex ring: by flipping a fin they create a vortex ring of water. The then blow air in the ring, which goes to the center of the vortex ring. In the water vortex ring the natural location of the air is in the center of the vortex. When air and water move in a circular path like they do in the vortex ring, air and water are separated due to the centripetal force. Since density of water is larger than air, water moves at the outside, while the air ends up in the middle. -Deep Ocean

Video on site

(Excerpt) Read more at nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dolphins
http://nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com/2009/04/dolphins-blowing-bubble-rings.html
1 posted on 04/27/2009 2:16:58 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
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To: Notoriously Conservative
The cuter they act, the better they teaste.


2 posted on 04/27/2009 2:20:14 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

Is that mammal sushi?


3 posted on 04/27/2009 2:23:15 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: Notoriously Conservative

Thanks for the smile and the mental vacation......


4 posted on 04/27/2009 2:24:08 PM PDT by Kimmers (Be the kind of person when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, Oh crap, she's awake)
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To: mnehring

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”


5 posted on 04/27/2009 2:24:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Notoriously Conservative

That’s really cool! :-)


6 posted on 04/27/2009 2:24:37 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: Notoriously Conservative

They are smarter than Obama.


7 posted on 04/27/2009 2:26:48 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (GIVE ME YOUR MONEY BITCH! - President Obama)
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To: mnehring

Gross!

I think it’s only the Japanese who eat the mammal called dolphin. Shame on the Japanese. The other dolphin is a fish otherwise known as mahi mahi. The mistake is a common one.


8 posted on 04/27/2009 2:30:29 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: Notoriously Conservative

They are super cool critters.


9 posted on 04/27/2009 2:51:56 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Notoriously Conservative

Amazing! Thanks for posting.


10 posted on 04/27/2009 3:04:01 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: Notoriously Conservative

Well, at least it’s cutting down on their smoking.


11 posted on 04/27/2009 3:30:12 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (We seem to have reached a critical mass of stupid people.)
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To: mnehring

Whats cute is how often you jump on the first post of a thread with the intention of derailing it by posting a contentious picture/message. Even non-political ones...you must like to keep in practice.

I bet you think no one notices, don’t you? Yeah, blah blah, Obama moral equivocation, appeal to authority, blah blah blah here comes the anecdote your cousin did that one time blah blah. I know all your responses.


12 posted on 04/27/2009 3:30:29 PM PDT by Troy McGreggor
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To: Troy McGreggor

Whatever dude, you need to get a life if you are that obsessed about reading into things that you keep track of what folks post to try to make a psychological determination of their intentions.


13 posted on 04/27/2009 3:44:27 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Troy McGreggor

By the way, welcome to FR newbie. You really are starting out well aren’t you?


14 posted on 04/27/2009 3:46:08 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring
that you keep track of what folks post

Very creepy.

15 posted on 04/27/2009 3:52:34 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Jean S

A noob at that..


16 posted on 04/27/2009 3:53:45 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring; Jean S

probly a retread.


17 posted on 04/27/2009 4:40:57 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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