ShortHand: How a NASA Experiment Ended in Dolphin Sex

RedHanded

True Crime

4.5 • 19.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Rumours about NASA scientists trying to teach dolphins to talk and getting frisky in the process have long been internet lore. But what really happened when Margaret Howe took on the task of training a sexed-up sea mammal to speak? And how on earth did they get it funded?

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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNhR-16r5lM
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x44ozsj
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me

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0:00.0	So, will it be skiing?
0:03.0	Or Christmas markets on a city break?
0:06.0	Skiing? Or a city break?
0:09.0	Some problems are good problems to have.
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0:24.0	Selected dates, holidays at all protected based on two adults for three nights,
0:28.0	restrictions and season C's apply.
0:43.0	Hello everyone.
0:45.0	Hello. Welcome back to another episode.
0:48.0	Well, episode two.
0:50.0	Of Redhanded Short-Hand.
0:52.0	Proving to you and to ourselves that we are going to keep doing this.
0:56.0	Absolutely we are.
0:58.0	And if this episode is anything to go by, this is exactly why I will continue to do short-hand.
1:02.0	Because I want to do the story for a very long time as everybody at Redhanded HQ can attest to.
1:08.0	Because prepare yourself.
1:10.0	Prepare yourself. Because it's about to get fucking bananas.
1:13.0	Dolphin fucking bananas.
1:15.0	That is the variety of bananas that we are talking about today.
1:18.0	But before we get all of that, Hannah, how smart exactly are dolphins?
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