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Japanese Tsunami Ghost Ship Spotted Off Canadian Coast
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from an article in Inhabitat: "After Japan was hit with a devastating earthquake in March 2011, the Pacific nation was rocked by a massive tsunami that destroyed thousands of coastal houses, cars and boats and swept millions of tons of debris out into the ocean. Now, it looks like some of that debris could be approaching North America. Last week, an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel was spotted off the coast of Canada, indicating that after more than a year, some of that debris could still be on its way to American and Canadian shores."
That would be "last week" from last week when inhabitat got the story a week late? The boat was sighted March 20th.
Everyone else reported this two weeks ago. Can't wait for Slashdot's report on the Moon landing.
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Who did what now?
The thing I love most about Slashdot is that they wait until I've completely forgotten reading a story before they post it, so its like a whole new experience.
> Last week, an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel
I'm confused. Does this ship have ghosts on it or not?
if (!deadPeopleOnBoard) ship.ghost = false;
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Free boat!
this is the flagship in googles new project for automated fishing vessels
successfuly launched from japan via massive natrual disaster and scheduled to land in north america sometime this week
You know I can't grab your ghost ships.
Public safety officials warn that Japanese tsunami debris washing up on Pacific shores may be radioactive.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
We all know that's how horror movies start.
Code? Good grief. LAME!
an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel was spotted off the coast of Canada,
Use it for torpedo practice. Once it floats into your territorial waters just sink the damn thing. Problem solved.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
It did have one or 2 freaky moments. And at the end when she's being carried off the cruise ship and sees what's his name and the gold being loaded on board was kinda cool. But yeah, it could have been executed better, but it could also have been a lot worse.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
I wouldn't worry so much about the ship and ghosts that may be on it or not, but rather about the three-eyed fish and two-headed sharks, that will be following in it's wake.
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It's Ragnarok:
A ship journeys from the east, Muspell's people are coming,
over the waves, and Loki steers
There are the monstrous brood with all the raveners,
The brother of Byleist is in company with them.
Alright, not really. But I do take this as a sign my imagination still works.
At least it's only Candida's problem !! We in America know good crap when we see it, and that shit don't cut the mustard !!
Nothing to worry about. Apparently the case of the Japanese Ghost Fishermen has been resolved by four teenagers and their great dane. Old Man McGee was responsible for the whole mess and was apparently trying to distract attention from his illegal human trafficking operations.
Their going to be getting all of the good stuff. Here on the Washington coast
I guess we be getting the lighter stuff, like bodies and stuffed Pokémon's.
damnit, if it wasnt for those meddling kids I'd have something to post on Slashdot!
The location, 150 miles south of the Haida Gwaii islands, is about 200 miles west of Vancouver. The currents along the Pacific coast of North America run southward, so the ship is going to drift into US waters soon. The U.S. will probably get stuck with the bill for towing the thing before it hits something. It's floating high in the water, so the hull is in good shape.
Let's see how this works:
1. Ghosts are not men
2. Socrates is a man
3. Socrates died
4. Therefore, Socrates is a dead man
5. Therefore, Socrates is not a ....
Ah hell, never mind.
Table-ized A.I.
Does it run Linux?
How about Ghostscript?
Table-ized A.I.
Is there an Indian boy and a Bengal Tiger aboard?
I love this phrase: "colonization of America"
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all your ghost ship belong to US.a
A ghost ship is the type of thing you see in Scooby Doo. This is a derelict.
Better watch out for Attack of the Mushroom People!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Maybe they meant Gift Shop, not Ghost Ship.
This article makes me wonder what may have been sucked into the North Pacific Gyre. I might be interesting to find out.
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And or a cursed weapon preferably plus five at least!
A ghost ship from the land of a nuclear meltdown? We're talking Event Horizon scale stuff here. Probably some kind of mutant ghosts.
You didn't mention that it glows nicely in the dark!