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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!.
'"Sept. 11 heightened fears that we could lose this thing -- along with other high-profile American icons -- to cultural terrorism," said Glenn Hill, an architecture professor at Texas Tech who heads the scanning team.'
What's cultural terrorism?
The real God is only Allah, and all other false gods should be removed." This statement from the one-eyed cleric Mullah Omar sent a chill through the international community following an edict issued by Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban regime announcing that all pre-Islamic statues in the country were to be destroyed. That edict, and the resulting destruction, has been universally condemned as "cultural terrorism."
If stuff like this is cultural terrorism, wouldn't it mean that America was founded on terrorism? (relating to native Americans)
Actually, oh retarded one, only debtor was misspelled, and only by one letter.
Uh, no.
Sure, we are the _largest_ deptor country in the world, sure we are spending billions of deficite dollars on the military...
Deficite? Oddly enough, try popping 'deficite' into google. It will smartly come back with: Did you mean: deficit? Even better, the first link it recommends is a link for an Attention Deficite Disorder page! Check it out, okay? =p
After all, your the one who cannot make a complete sentence.
I'm sure you meant "you're". I doubt I'd be bothering to mock you if you weren't trying to talk like such a hotshot, though.