Russian sub plants flag under North Pole

Yahoo News/Reuters ^

[PEACE ENFORCER]

I support ANYONE who will suck that oil out of the ground. Especially in a place as inhospitable as this. The U.S. may learn something from this IF they actually develop this area, more natural resources on the Global Market means better lives for the rest of us. To think all we have to do is go to the Gulf of Mexico, off the shores of Florida, Anwar, seems like a walk in the park.

[Fletcher J]

The commies can take the North Pole from us when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

My really, really freezing-cold dead hands... ;)

Fletcher J

[4yearlurker]

Wouldn’t Santa have squatter’s rights? This might get ugly.

[mkjessup]

Russian sub plants flag under North Pole

Guess the Kursk drifted a little bit north before they finally found her eh?

[cjmae]

Cold War again?

Shouldn’t Santa have a say in this?

[Bitsy]

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

Hey nutso environmentalists please go the North Pole and protest the potential disaster to the polar bears and other NP animals. The Russians are very easy people to deal with, they absolutely love American liberals and will be sincerely touched by your concern. Please feel free to stay for a while - possibly forever. Oh, and while you are there, please say hello to Santa for me.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

ROFL!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

ROFL!

Mars too!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[I guess the MOON is ours, then.]

No oil.

Pssssst: Dilithium crystals.

[pogo101]

"Do you have a flag?"

[jmcenanly]

I guess the MOON is ours, then.

No oil.

No oil, but plenty of He3, once we fgure out how to fuse it

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/lecture33.html

[avacado]

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

Ain't that the truth! It would be less hassle to just buy the Arctic oil from the Russians. Although a nice touch would be for the Russians to contract Halliburton in the project -- just to piss the liberals off.

[twonie]

And it could get much uglier! Soon canada will be up there with their shiny new ships, demanding theirs. THEN you’ll see some action - the polar bears will be getting this on video, it will be so exciting. If there’s a betting pool, I’ll put $20. on Santa, though: that flying sleigh is going to be hard to beat. And he elves!!

[CodeToad]

"Mars too!"

Got it covered.

[NCC-1701]

This is the first boat to carry ANY flag under the North Pole:

It didn't plant it but it carried OUR flag there. The NP is ours.

[4woodenboats]

And would you like your Happy Meal for here or to go?

Uh, to go, I guess.

And where would you be going?

Um, Mars?

[Clam Digger]

Japs, not ruskies.

[OldArmy52]

Well, since the Russians just now reached the North Pole and are the first people ever to go there, isn’t it theirs?

I mean, noone else has ever arrived there before today have they?

Finders keepers and all that?

(Eskimos? What Eskimos?)

[CodeToad]

I bet McDs has enough preservatives to make it to Mars!

[teeman8r]

if the other arctic nations had a pair of cajones between them, they’d issue a summons to putin for littering...

go UN make us proud, defend your LOST treaty by squashing this russian act with inPUTINity...

teeman