Russian sub plants flag under North Pole

Yahoo News/Reuters ^

[CodeToad]

I guess is ours, then.

[CodeToad]

I guess the MOON is ours, then.

[Bushwacker777]

Let the Russians have it — we have too many environmental kooks to ever be able to get at the resources anyway.

[nuconvert]

lol. Don’t you hate when your brain works faster than your fingers?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We owned the Arctic as of 1955, then.

[evets]

[untrained skeptic]

If they can patrol it and develop the resources there, then I don't see why their claim shouldn't be valid.

If they are just going to make a symbolic claim so they can try and get others who develop the resources to pay them money, then the claim should be ignored.

He who invests the resources to secure those resources and develop them should reap the benefits.

[mutley]

I hope there’s video soon, part of me wonders if they’re just making all this up.

[SpinnerWebb]

you DO realize all the hundreds of square miles of endangered polar bear habitat that were destroyed by their ice-breakers to reach the pole, don’t you?!?!

Where’s the outcry!

[fso301]

bump

[mutley]

you DO realize all the hundreds of square miles of endangered polar bear habitat that were destroyed by their ice-breakers to reach the pole, don’t you?!?!Where’s the outcry!

We're all doomed by global warming anyway, so why get upset about a little hastening.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Let the Russians have it — we have too many environmental kooks to ever be able to get at the resources anyway

Surely the kooks will be up in arms about Russia's plans to exploit that pristine area of the globe.

[Red Badger]

I would think that a person would actually have to set foot on the place to plant their flag...........Okay, Ivan, you get out there and plant the flag...........

[Vermont Lt]

I can see the video now. They had a robot post a flag on the National Geographic plate on the ocean floor that says “North Pole Here.”

[InvisibleChurch]

so did they open up the hatch while underwater to plant the flag? and did they stick it upside down into the bottom of the ice?

[jonascord]

In the fight between Soviet whalers and Greenpeace, where Greenpeace would use boats to get in front of whales, weren’t the Russians shooting harpoons anyhow, as well as water and steam hoses? I suspect that Putin holds anti-Russian Leftist protesters in low regard.

[Lazamataz]

I guess the MOON is ours, then.

No oil.

[Minutemen]

All of your poles are belong to us!

[anymouse]

I guess the MOON is ours, then.

No oil.

Lots of Helium 3, Oxygen, Titanium, Aluminum and lots of solar energy - even better than oil.