Posted on 01/08/2007 11:38:45 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
Breaking..suspicious device at port of miami..
"You'll understand why tuna is so popular when you get to it's shelf life."
And how 'bout that SPAM! Woohoo, 60 - 96 months.
I don't know what is going on, but I'm not beyond thinking this is a trial run for something bigger. I've been in the military for over 30 years, and this just stinks.
We love spam. We have cases of it. WHOO HOO!
THAT'S okay? Not w/ME.
A tanker caught fire in my neck of the woods today (Sugar Land) at the Nalco plant. It's cleared up now.
I ate it as a child, fried (lol) for breakfast. It's actually decent that way, crispy on the outside. I just wonder what all is in the stuff.
I live 1 mile nortwest of Nalco.
You do pose an interesting and difficult scenario for terrorism. Terrorism isn't just the bangs but the fear of the bangs as well. If Terrorists can frequently challenge the security system with enough false positives they can drive up the costs and reduce the effectiveness of the monitoring system.
A spate of false positive hits in airports simultaneoulsy would paralyze the air traffic system for days. I wouldn't want to fly during a high alert period. I'm sure that both the terrorists and counterterrorists have red teamed this scenario in theory already.
The lower the perch, the more that buzzard gets crapped on from those above.
Thanks for the info, glad to hear that things are clear now.
Yeah. My mom would pan fry spam in butter until it was crisp. We ate it as sauage for breakfast. It was ok with eggs. Cold spam sandwiches with mayo were nasty though.
I don't wanna know what's in it.
You ate fried C-4 for breakfast?
Dayum....talk about child abuse.
So....If we get hit hard and FR gets knocked off the air...how will we know what is going on?
I thought I heard yesterday that they were from Dearbornistan.
Miami judge drops charges against 3 Dearborn men in terrorism scare
DetNews.com, MI - 2 hours ago
MIAMI -- A judge today dropped all charges against three men of Middle Eastern descent from Dearborn, Mich., whose miscommunication with guards at the Port ...
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070108/UPDATE/701080418
How do they notify you if you need to shelter in place? Do they have a reverse 9-1-1 there, like in parts of east Harris Co. near the refineries? Did you have to do that today?
Correct (which you are) or not, that wasn't my point. The tests done with considerably less plastic explosives in the shoe bomber investigation on a grounded 747 were sufficient to destroy that plane (blew off the tail section, as I recall) and that was without any of the stresses of flying at hundreds of miles an hour when the explosives went off.
A cruise ship is built to considerably different standards. A pound of C4 or Semtex would do considerable damage, but unless put in the right place or unless it set off a big fire it wouldn't be likely to destroy the cruise ship the way it did that 747 that came down in Lockerbie . It's several orders of magnitude more robust an engineering question based on what it is the craft is designed to do.
You make airplanes out of as thin and light a material as you can (usually aluminum at the upper end of the stress for the material) and cruise ships out of (relatively) thick steel with as little stress as you can get away with. You're talking completely different economic and engineering design criteria.
And that makes for a huge difference, kinetic energy wise.
I'm not disagreeing with your post. I'm trying to provide perspective to folks who picture a single pound of plastic explosives (of whatever type) taking a multi K Ton cruise ship and blowing it into itty bitty pieces in one shot. We're not talking a small nuke or antimatter here. It's a very powerful chemical explosive and, as I said, can "blow up" a diesel locomotive, which would ruin the whole day of a cruise liner. But a diesel locomotive (let alone a 747) is to a cruise ship as a hand grenade is to a small nuke (yes, that's way too extreme, but you get where I'm going).
"You ate fried C-4 for breakfast?"
Fried Spam with eggs. We liked it better than SOS (chipped beef gravy and sliced, boiled eggs on toast).
I'm fouled up! I live one mile northeast of Nalco, about 3 blocks north of Sugar Mill elementary. If I lived Northwest of Nlaco, I'd be in jail or the middle of the Airport!
My kids went to Sugar Mill Elementary, Sugar Land Middle School and Kempner High School.
My wife tried to go home for lunch from Hwy 6 and 59 but couldn't get through.
They say all clear was given around 3.
Wonder what caused it in the first place?
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