Someone actually thinks "kids" in several different areas of the country got powerful green lasers for Xmas, and are talented enough to target the small cockpit of a large airliner traveling at hundreds of mile an hour.
I'm not ready to say that it is terrorist related, but I think it is a possiblity. AQ knows that if they can cripple the airline industry again, they can do damage to the US economy. If they can down airliners with a $600 laser (even just a few with "lucky shots") they will have passengers thinking twice about flying.
"STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 3 TO 5 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS... ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR THE CENTER OF IVAN IN THE HURRICANE WARNING AREA"
A strong Cat4 with central pressure that low will only produce a surge of 3-5 feet?????
Yes...it is already 5:30 AM Saturday in FIJI, just over the international dateline, so if a computer in FIJI has this worm, it should now be pounding away at windowsupdate.com.
Thousands stuck in elevators, A/C out, thousands stuck in subway trains and elevated rail systems, hospitals and other critical business on generator or closed.