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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."
In other news, I tripled the amount I give a fuck about your opinion, from 0.001% to 0.003%.
$950 million is a pathetic excuse for a donation. So it's triple what is was before. Your point?
It's hard to find exact numbers, but Bush has spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 billion in Iraq already. That's 368 times as much money as this silly little pledge.
The number of people affected by the tsunami is far, far greater than the number of Iraqis we've killed so far. This means that we're spending literally thousands of times as much money to kill a single Iraqi as to help a single starving tsunami victim.
Maybe that makes you feel proud, but it makes me feel sick.
fark?
feh.. im a totalfarker
(and ultrafarker but i can't mentio ^%*#$^&*^*^&*^--- CONNECTION CLOSED
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Dubya probably decided to increase his cut
Nice troll, now shut the fuck up.
I'm so tired of you anti-US types. How much is enough for you? Should we bankrupt our country?
It could be nothing. If it were up to me, it would be. I have a class full of kids using 15 year old textbooks. I don't hear you claiming to feel sick abou that. Why not?
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I agree. One of the biggest problems with the relief efforts is actually the UN. Don't believe me? Check this out. Not sure where its from, my dad e-mailed it to me: Guest Column: No Relief in Sight for the Lincoln By Ed Stanton It has been three weeks since my ship, the USS Abraham Lincoln, arrived off the Sumatran coast to aid the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami that ravaged their coastline. I'd like to say that this has been a rewarding experience for us, but it has not: Instead, it has been a frustrating and needlessly dangerous exercise made even more difficult by the Indonesian government and a traveling circus of so-called aid workers who have invaded our spaces. What really irritated me was a scene I witnessed in the Lincoln's wardroom a few days ago. I went in for breakfast as I usually do, expecting to see the usual crowd of ship's company officers in khakis and air wing aviators in flight suits, drinking coffee and exchanging rumors about when our ongoing humanitarian mission in Sumatra is going to end. What I saw instead was a mob of civilians sitting around like they owned the place. They wore various colored vests with logos on the back including Save The Children, World Health Organization and the dreaded baby blue vest of the United Nations. Mixed in with this crowd were a bunch of reporters, cameramen and Indonesian military officers in uniform. They all carried cameras, sunglasses and fanny packs like tourists on their way to Disneyland. My warship had been transformed into a floating hotel for a bunch of trifling do-gooders overnight. As I went through the breakfast line, I overheard one of the U.N. strap-hangers, a longhaired guy with a beard, make a sarcastic comment to one of our food servers. He said something along the lines of "Nice china, really makes me feel special," in reference to the fact that we were eating off of paper plates that day. It was all I could do to keep from jerking him off his feet and choking him, because I knew that the reason we were eating off paper plates was to save dishwashing water so that we would have more water to send ashore and save lives. That plus the fact that he had no business being there in the first place. My attitude towards these unwanted no-loads grew steadily worse that day as I learned more from one of our junior officers who was assigned to escort a group of them. It turns out that they had come to Indonesia to "assess the damage" from the Dec. 26 tsunami. Well, they could have turned on any TV in the world and seen that the damage was total devastation. When they got to Sumatra with no plan, no logistics support and no five-star hotels to stay in, they threw themselves on the mercy of the U.S. Navy, which, unfortunately, took them in. I guess our senior brass was hoping for some good PR since this was about the time that the U.N. was calling the United States "stingy" with our relief donations. As a result of having to host these people, our severely over-tasked SH-60 Seahawk helos, which were carrying tons of food and water every day to the most inaccessible places in and around Banda Aceh, are now used in great part to ferry these "relief workers" from place to place every day and bring them back to their guest bedrooms on the Lincoln at night. Despite their avowed dedication to helping the victims, these relief workers will not spend the night in-country, and have made us their guardians by default. When our wardroom treasurer approached the leader of the relief group and asked him who was paying the mess bill for all the meals they ate, the fellow replied, "We aren't paying, you can try to bill the U.N. if you want to." In addition to the relief workers, we routinely get tasked with hauling around reporters and various low-level "VIPs," which further wastes valuable helo lift that could be used to carry supplies. We had to dedicate two helos and a C-2 cargo plane for America-hater Dan Rather and his entourage of door holders and briefcase carriers from CBS News. Another camera crew was from MTV. I doubt if we'l
Scott Simontis
You pathetic, cowardly cocksucker.
HOW DARE YOU MOD ME DOWN JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE MY POSITION?
FUCK YOU WHOEVER MODDED ME TROLL. THIS IS A FUCKING TROLL, YOU ASSHOLE.
I hate you fucking slashbots. If you disagree, you hide like roaches, modding instead of commenting. READ the goddamned post, and TRY to disagree with me.
What, you think kids SHOULD use 15 year old textbooks?