Posted on 12/27/2004 6:04:21 AM PST by IAF ThunderPilot
I don't want to twist this thread into a debate over North Korean nukes, but....
Do you really believe that we would have any power to affect that scenario? China would step intercede instantly. Then what? End game.
Same for the China/Taiwan dispute. Don't anticipate any action on our part there either.
Expect anything that China would do to be backed by their comrade Putin as well.
Perhaps you've both been away for too long?
What's "away"? What's "too long?" Yes, your right, that belongs on another thread.
I wouldn't bet against the one of those two propositions I'd rather see happen.
troll -- ZOT!!!
Yokohama? Yokohama no doko?
Publicly.
48-hour time frame from 2:00 p.m. Eastern time today.
I guess not.....zzzzzzzzzzz.........5:25 a.m. Yokohama time
EU media censoring deaths of hundereds of tourists - exposed worldwide first here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308548/posts
Don't believe anybody's "censoring" anything. Earthquakes and tidal waves tend to cut off communications for hours or days.
Though, yet God, admit these tens of thousands to Your embrace. Amen
The news likely will be like that for a few days. Mass confusion in a mass disaster. I hear there are airdrops of generators going on, so perhaps we'll get more (good) info soon.
I bet that tomorrow morning we will hear about another creepy Iranian TV program who blames the Zionists devils (Israelis) for the eqarthquake.
The fact that Israel is sending 100,000$ worth aid, and Iran is sending 0$ worth aid, is not important.
Of course they can with the same ease blaim the USA or Presdient Bush for the earthquake.
Dont think I am a fanatic- I have seen their latest TV program and I almost got a shock from the rubbish:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307871/posts
Video Shows Tsunami Hitting Beach
Stunning pictures just in from Asia show one of nature's most-feared acts: a tsunami crashing into a beach on Thailand's Phuket Island.
The amateur video shows the huge wave hitting Patong Beach.
In the video, the big wave is seen quickly approaching the beach, seemingly out of nowhere.
People can first be heard gasping, then screaming, as the tidal wave moves quickly over the beachhead, by buildings and into town.
The tidal waves were triggered by the world's biggest earthquake in 40 years.
The Thai navy is still scouring the islands in the Andaman Sea today for survivors of this weekend's deadly tsunamis, which slammed into the country's tourist areas such as Phuket Island.
Several hundred tourists have been rescued from Thai islands in the sea, but nearly 800 bodies have been retrieved from stricken areas.
Disaster officials say its not yet known how many foreigners were among the dead although a Thai health ministry official has estimated as many as 80 percent of the dead could be foreign tourists.
Phuket Island is a popular tourist spot after being made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio film, "The Beach."
Already its estimated about 130 people died on the island including an American.
Across Asia the death toll from the weekend earthquake and tsunamis is nearing 24,000.
Wow, this just keeps getting worse.
It seems that natural disasters, and the scope of the loss, gets greater and greater. Is this fact or fiction? Does anyone have any facts or articles that compare today's natural disasters with those of 20, 50, 100, 200 years ago?
The knowledge I've gotten over the last few days should explain that.
The tsunami works just like any other wave only much faster and with a larger volume of water involved. As the tsunami is traveling through deep, open ocean the height is only a few feet. It is not until the depth of water decreases that the wave is resisted and begins to compress. As it compresses the wave increases in height and slows down until it breaks on shore.
I understand that Diego Garcia does not have a large mass of land around it underwater to resist the wave as it approaches so the wave does not compress very much. This allows the wave to pass on by with little or no notice that it was ever there.
It is only when you have a large land mass like a continent in the way that the water depth changes slowly enough to make the wave compact and turn into a wall.
I enjoyed looking at your home page immensely. The air force represented there looks ready to roll, big time. I also enjoyed seeing a bird's eye view of the holy land about which I read so much in the Scriptures.
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