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Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands
kernel panic attack writes "This week's deadly Asian Quake and Tsunami may have been so powerful,
that it changed the rate of Earth's rotation. In a Reuters article,
a NASA geophysicist theorizes that the quake compacted the Earth enough
to speed up the planet's rotation by 3 microseconds. A second
article
says the quake moved undersea tectonic plates by up to 98 feet, shifting
islands near Sumatra out to sea an unknown distance. Also, a
USGS team wants images from commercial satellite operators to
help pinpoint coastline damage. Lastly, an interesting article from the Australian Spaceguard Survey about the need for a Tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean. The author comments that tsunami warnings may not help much, as people often flock to the coastline to see the giant waves." The current estimated death toll is now nearly 70,000; Amazon and Google, among others, have added front-page links to simplify donating to the disaster relief effort.
The author comments that tsunami warnings may not help much, as people often flock to the coastline to see the giant waves."
What a great system for wiping out large numbers of stupid people! We in the U.S. only get them to assemble in large numbers (we call them "NASCAR spectators"), but the subsequent mass killing by natural forces is too much to hope for. We'd have to call in an airstrike on the racetrack.
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Don't help these "people"; remember they steal jobs from Americans.
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It's not our fault those Iraqis were on our land before we got there.
Let's see what those noble French people are contributing. Wow, where's your outrage now?
I'm ashamed that you're an american too.
Well, considering that the devastated areas are heavily muslim...
Isn't it ironic that right after each Osama message calling on Allah to smite the infidels there is a major disaster in some muslim country?
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.
I'm ashamed you're an American too. This is an initial amount. Be thankful your government wants to assess the situation before handing over multi-millions of dollars to the U.N., a known corrupt organization that bilked hundreds of millions from the "Oil for Food" program. You, Sir, are a moron. With any luck, you're sterile.
Awww, poor little persecuted American. We're all crying rivers of tears over here.
Like hell! USA contributes 0.1% of income to foreign aid. That's one quarter of what France donates! How does it feel to be stingier than France.
Let's look at the figures. With 300 million people you donated ODA $6.9 billion in foreign aid in 1997. That's a mere $23 per person. You stingy fuckers. Even Australia came in at twice that. And we're all bastards compared to the Norway who contributed a whopping $311 per person in foreign aid in 1998.
Bunch of selfish whiney "me me me" Americans with their non-stop martyr complex. Give me a break.
It is just Mother Nature cleaning out the closet. It has been happening for eons. We are the ones who decided to stake out the coastline and low lying areas. We are the ones who continue to have large families we can barely feed. No single person deserves this, but this is how life works.
We're moving a f'en carrier group into the region for support and search and rescue, you think that's cheap?
Does that *really* cost anything extra?
Here's a relevant link.
Yeah no shit, because you've got 15x as many people in your country. But my country still donates twice as much per person as yours.
My guess is you're in your mother's basement, you have pimples, and you've never donated a dime in your life.
As I said earlier, my donations are private. I refuse to discuss which charities I donate to or how much I donate. Not even with my closest friends or relatives. I consider it more private than who I vote for.
But you got that bit right about hanging out on /. to raise the misery index of other people.
Not sure how to translate GPF into nuke useage and I'll bet that the guys aboard are all hooo-hah! about helping people that are in distress. They get paid anyway and if the carrier fleet's budget gets cut next year I'll understand.
Nice try.