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Raising the Kursk

Posted by michael on from the raiding-davy-jones-locker dept.

imrdkl writes: "Theres a conglomeration of Euro companies, from Euro countries renowned for their sea-prowess, who are working together with the Russians to raise their stricken sub. This will be some happy news, when they get it finished. Hopefully before winter gets bad up there in the "circle". A pretty good article, with a nifty flash animation which gives some notion of the scope of this engineering feat is to be found at USA Today."

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  1. Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred just over two weeks ago, and you people are discussing the conglomeration of Euro companies, from Euro countries renowned for their sea-prowess, who are working together with the Russians to raise their stricken sub? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!!!

  2. i think it was osama bin laden by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    which sunk this sub

  3. Re:Memory loss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil," Jeff Bates told bemused doctors in the Severe Burn Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.
    Bates and his homosexual partner Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in." he explained. "As usual, CmdrTaco shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that he'd had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn't come out again, so i peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him."
    At a hushed press confrence, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out of the tubing, igniting Mr. Bates' hair and severly burning his face. It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball." Bates suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Malda suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.

  4. Re:Good news in a unhappy time. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I hate Moslems too. I swear before almighty God that I hope we kill tens of thousands of those raghead bastards. I only pray that napalm and air-fuel bombs are used so that they burn alive. If there is some collateral damage, so be it. I say kill them all and let God sort it out.

    Think about this: If Slashdot did presented a short profile each day about one of our dead killed by the Islamic terrorists, it would take Slashdot sixteen years before we could work through the whole list.

    I say vengeance. Kill the Islamic bastards.