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Laser-Scanning U.S. Landmarks
MeanMF writes "The New York Daily News reports in this article that the National Park Service is creating detailed 3-D maps of national monuments such as the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore using high-resolution laser scanners. Their goal is to create highly-accurate blueprints that can be used to reconstruct the monuments if they are damaged by a terrorist attack or other means." The same story is also available at Yahoo!.
How about the USA changing its destructive foreign policy so we don't have terrorists trying to kill us and destroy monuments.
Like that would ever happen though...
And no. I didn't vote for Bush.
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!
Anyone that's studied the history of Mount Rushmore knows that one of the great things about it is that it was so hard to make.
You do know it was built as a turist trap for auto travelers and as a "Fuck You!" to the natives to whom the mountain was a major monument before it was, ummm, defaced?
I would think it hilarious if some vandal managed to carve Osama into the mountain, it shouldn't be destoyed if they manage it, just like the presidents shouldn't be taken off just because of the sad history of the place. Erasing the evidence of history doesn't make it go away.
I realize that you are probably an idiot that will use any excuse to discredit the current administration to further the pathetic agenda of others, but surely you must realize that since the story said
the scanning project got underway in the spring of 2001
that means that it, like all government programs, was planned several years in advance, most likely during the sex fiend's administration.
So, like every other pitiful attempt to heap scorn upon those currently in power, all you have done is lower your credibility to somewhere near zero.
Take your little angsty, Chomsky-inspired rants elsewhere, because exposure to the truth once again blows your 'theories'.
Now you have a choice readers: you can mod me down because the lie was exposed as a pathetic attempt to discredit, with no basis whatsoever in truth or, if you are a lover of the truth you can leave this post as is.