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Images of Ocean Floor Show Effects of Tsunami
Iphtashu Fitz writes "This week the UK's Royal Navy presented images taken by the survey ship HMS Scott of the damage to the floor of the Indian Ocean that triggered the tsunami two months ago. The Scott has a high-resolution multi-beam sonar that let it generate highly detailed images of the sea floor, some 200m to 5000m below sea level. An image showing the scale of the damage, and the full presentation made by the Commanding Officer of HMS Scott (38MB PowerPoint) are available. The presentation contains a number of images that have more detail than those available on the websites."
The tsunami evidently took out the royal-navy's servers as well =\
Linking to a 40meg powerpoint file. I can smell the server burning from here.
I hope the British readers here didn't have any urgent business with the UK Hydrographic Office site!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Fitz just linked a 38 megabyte file from the front page... does this mean that slashdot just declared war on the U.K.?
~UP
Eat the Path.
the UK Royal Navy website was completly destroyed by the Slashdot Tsunami
By reading this, you have given me brief control of your mind.
NEWS FLASH
British Royal Naval Communications brought to a halt today. Somehow a Naval Report on the latest Tsunami damage was linked to Popular IT Community Web Site SlashDot.org. The resulting Bandwith usage rates shot to am alarming rate, and crippled Data Communications to Royal Naval Forces, and forced the Royal Navy to respond, by issuing the following Statement. "Koh! Blimey! We've been knackered by the BOFHs'!"
My cat's picked up a Hammer. HEY! Put down that Hammer. Put Down that Hamm...THUNK!
Slashdotters' guns were aimed and requests were comin' fast,
The first link hit the website, they knew she couldn't last,
That mighty Naval server room is just a memory,
"Avenge the Bismarck" was the battle cry, sent over TCP.
We found the freakin' powerpoint that's makin' such a fuss!
We slashdotted the website 'cause the world depends on us!
It hit the front page runnin, when we spun our browsers 'round,
Yeah, we found the Royal Navy, and then we shut 'er down!
With apologies to Johnny Horton's Sink the Bismarck, 1960, and those who served aboard both the Hood and the Bismarck.)
I think it was Jimmy Stewart that said:
"Every time a server burns, a torrent gets its wings."
I could be wrong.
I applaud your pedantry, sir. Let us apply this to different areas.
BZZZT! The surface of your car cannot be damaged. Changed, yes, but not damaged. Unless you're suggesting that we need to get back to car body perfection.
Look, there are accidental collisions that have been going on for as long as cars have existed. Cars and trucks are CONSTANTLY reshaping the surface of other vehicles. THIS IS NOT DAMAGE. This is normal behavior for the ecosystem.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
A tsunami has been detected approaching the coasts of Greenland and Iceland from the East. Geologists suspect this tsunami is due to the plunging of the entire uk.gov webserver complex into the atlantic ocean and a very high velocity.
Did anyone happen to get the entire presentation and have a torrent up somewhere?
Today the British Navy abandoned the gulf and turned its ships and nuclear submarines onto the Slashdot editing team. An initial force of Special Boat Service (SBS) forces was expected to take out the chain of command before a period of continual bombardment by artillery, missle and aircraft.
A spokesman from the British Navy said "right that's it, we've left the buggers alone since 1812 but that does it."
In related news Slashdot is being re-hosted from Camp Delta, along with any remaining members of the editing team.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
...as if millions of slashdotters all posted the same joke about the Royal Navy's web server going down. I fear something terrible has happened.