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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?
Free boat!
You know I can't grab your ghost ships.
That ship will begin the zombie apocalypse.
Learn to love Alaska
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
Protip; write efficient code:
ghosts = false;
Thats most likely uneducated speculation rather than fact. The meltdown didn't occur until well after the Tsunami swept everything out. The reality is all that debris was swept out to sea well before the plant melted down a week later. The radioactive materials leaked into the ocean weeks after the earthquake and would have been dispersed locally not on boats and stuff swept out by the tsunami.
What was made public about the ship, that she was a Japanese fishing trawler, that she was swept out to sea in a tsunami and was lost... none of that is true. The ship was a secret government project to create a fishing trawler capable of faster-than-light travel. The ship doesn't really go faster than light. It creates a gateway to jump instantaneously from one point to another oceans away. It's called a gravity drive. I built it.
The mission was going perfectly, they reached safe distance using conventional engines. They had the go-ahead to use the gravity drive and open the gateway to Antarctic whaling waters. And then, they just disappeared, vanished without a trace.
Until now.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Bah, speak for yourself!
While.boat=isfloating.for.each.members(as member).while.member=dead.for.each.limbs(as limb).check(necrosis).if(necrosis is not apparent).ask(member.name()).if(member.name is just a bunch of GRAWLWLW and stuff).determined=ghosts.
Now THAT'S a statement!
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
Most of the initial material release was Iodine, the vast majority of which has since decayed.
Of course, your statements are completely un-sourced so unless you can link to such a statement you either tried, and failed, to be funny or are just spreading nonsense.
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.
You ever notice how they never uncovered any drug smuggling rings?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Scope creep. Looks like someone lost the SOW.
That's the spirit! It glows with excitement; a tasty treat for the mind's eye.
Table-ized A.I.
I suspect they did, but Shaggy smoked the evidence.
Those insenstive Japanese bastards are too busy playing with their nuclear meltdown and fishing corpses out of the rubble to think about the impact this has on decent hard-working Americans. I mean, hundreds of tons of scrap steel will probably only just cover the cost of towing it away. You're welcome, world!
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