Michelle Rodriguez to join the Sea Shepherds in their Whale Wars
 

Hi fellow Avatarans!

Check it out: this links to a news page at the Sea Shepherd website, where it was announced that Avatar's own Michelle Rodriguez will join the Sea Shepherd Antarctic campaign for 2010/2011. Which means she'll probably be appearing in the upcoming season of "Whale Wars" on Animal Planet.

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-...-101006-1.html

You can watch the video of Michelle and Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson.

Way to go, Michelle! Looks like our Trudy is going to be a Whale Warrior, and fight to protect the endangered whales of the Southern Ocean.
She can tell those illegal whalers: "You're not the only one with a gun, bitch." :)

I'm more a utorrent man myself. Wait...what?:xD:

Anyway, back on topic. Good for Michelle, this sounds incrdible. Definitely an asset to the force.:)

I was trying to make a point in a comical sense. Perhaps, "Yay, piracy solves everything..." would have been a more informative answer.

I know, I was joking, too. :P

Though Michelle with the Sea Shepards is still pretty cool (whatever you think of them). :)

I'd rather not see her die irl by ramming ships.

Yeah, same here... :(

Yeah. It's great to see actors that aren't shallow. (No pun intended)

It is interesting to see that Avatar in some way have made both James Cameron and Michelle Rodriguez to go out there and take action. Michelle seems to have been interested in Sea Shephard for quite a while but it seems that she takes the step to go out with them first after her participating in Avatar.

One can wonder, if we look some years into the future, how many peoples lives really will have changed in similar ways because of the film Avatar. Hopefully someone will do a study about this some day.

It is really inspiring to see people like Michelle taking action against pirates and thieves who depletes our oceans of life.

Why did you post the same thing twice in a row?

I just express a recognition of a person that stands up for her views and who are trying to do something. She do not sink into some unwordly longing for an alien paradise planet, instead she want to fight to preserve the living nature here in our real world, to preserve Pandora on Earth.

Except, you said the same basic thing, twice. In a row.

I think you're baiting.

I am expressing my opinion.

You expressed it once, then repeated it, almost exactly after a conflict on a similar subject in a different thread. That smacks of baiting discussion. Trust me, I've done it before.

Noone forces you to hang around this thread if you dont want.

Thread necromancy is bad. Leave it unless you have something interesting to add rather than just bumping a controversial thread for its own sake.

Well, a lot of people hate Sea Shepard for harming human beings. But I've read some interesting things about the intelligence of cetaceans. A few scientists are starting to think that some species may have human-equivalent intellect. Complex social organization, something very like language.

Cetacean intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“The scientific research . . . suggests that dolphins are ‘non-human persons’ who qualify for moral standing as individuals,” [Thomas White, professor of ethics at Loyola Marymount University] said.

Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' - Times Online

Certainly interesting and I would oppose any injury of an actual sentient being. That said, Wikipedia isn't a source :P (http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8053/wikipediaz.jpg http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7...kipediacat.jpg )
It would be ironic for both sides if the research programmes actually proved sentience, both from their side for having killed them and from the terrorists' side for having slowed down the proof of sentience :P

Two types of sentient beings on the same planet? That would have so many implications both here on Earth and out there in the search for E.T. I would have thought the odds to be astronomical.

:shock: Qualifications to write an article and actual knowledge of a subject are two entirely separate things. But that's a different thread, a thread that tastes less necro. :P

So they're lying about those little source notations at the bottom?

I heard about this while ago too. Hopefully she can help them actually do something.

If they actually do anything governments will have to stop overlooking their breaches of the law.

Orly? Hopefully governments will also stop overlooking illegal whaling. ;)

The whaling is not illegal. They have a scientific license in the area. It would be simple enough to trade Japan a slight increase on commercial limits for the revocation of their scientific license, but terror groups like the Sea Shepard's make negotiations difficult.

This is the first "Sea Shepherds only make things worse" argument that makes sense to me. Thanks for this information, it may change my views on this.

Well, Michelle wasn't mentioned in this report, but Sea Shepherd has scored a win:

Sea Shepherd Activists Prompt Japan To Suspend Whaling

It still bristles me that Japan claims their whaling being "for research reasons" - yeah, right. Just like the "traditional" annual whale and dolphin killings at Taiji...

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Txim Asawl*~

Research. Lol. What kind of research killing 945 whales is all about?

Terrorists -2 The rest of us - 1

Terrorists? haha Yeah, send them to prison for saving lives and helping that most precious of things - Earth. Gratz to these Sea Shepherds, they're doing a damn fine job! :)

Well said ! :)

Rationalize it however you want, Isard. :rolleyes: All that matters now is that the whaling has been stopped. :)

I'm not the one doing the rationalizing. Terrorism wins again. Fact.

But it's a good thing in this case, isn't it? ;)

Whaling is dead. That's all that matters now, these "terrorists" (:rolleyes:) aren't needed anymore.

It's only dead while they're out there attacking vessels. They haven't accomplished anything but a temporary respite. (oh, and they've chipped away at what credibility organizations like Greenpeace HAD)