[sarasota]

Am I the only person who thinks humans and their safety are more important than mammals/fish, etc?

[wm25burke]

Typical watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) communist subversion of the west.

Take a look at "Set up and Sold out" - which describes the long standing relationship between Environmentalism and Communism.

http://www.thealternativebookshop.com/envr0002.html

Using an environmental issue to undermine U.S. security is completely consistent with the tactics outlined in this book...

[steplock]

Here's the communist bit*h that is the cause of all this:

Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte edlpo@cand.uscourts.gov

[squidly]

Utter BS such as this just flat pisses me off. These kinds of people would probably complain about the impact of the Inchon landings on the local crustacean population. This is what peace, prosperity and plenty gets you, a nation full of blithering idiots who forget where peace, prosperity, and plenty comes from.

[jimt]

Folks,

My Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers lists 110 decibels as "deafening", the sound level of a nearby riveter, which I can attest to as unpleasantly noisy.

The decibel scale is a logarithmic one, where a DOUBLING of the pressure level computes to an increase of 6 decibels.

The Navy's widget, at 240 decibels, produces sound pressures of 2^21 greater than "deafening", or about 3 million times higher sound pressures.

While I detest the environuts, maybe they have a point this time.

[sergeantdave]

Nearly everything the eco-fascists claim is junk science.

How do we know this equipment is dangerous to whales? I assume that whales can swin, and they can move away from irritating noise.

Besides, the eco-fascists should bear the burden of proof in court that whales are harmed.

And since when are whales more important than 300 million Americans and their security?

We should get the Wisconsin out of mothballs, sail to Frisco and open fire on the Sierra Club watermelons, followed by a Marine amphibious landing.

[hchutch]

This is just infuriating.

I can just imagine a briefing:
"Now, I had requested the SURTASS LFA, but a federal judge, in all his wisdom, has denied it. Too dangerous for the whales. So, we're going to have to send some 688s in ahead of us, and hope they can handle the task."