TSUNAMI!!

[Burning Sheep Productions]

<a href='http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jh ... yID=645770' target='_blank'>The article</a> if you need it.<br><br>Ye gads that's a helluva lotta death, 68 big ones!<br>But do you know what pisses me off the most?<br>The fact that the TV news cares more about the 6 dead Australians and 11 unconfirmed then anything else!! They're interviewing the survivors and getting quotes from embassies and everything! Ye GADS bloody hell I don't care what country they're from! Stop being so patriotic it's almost discriminating!!<br><br>*Settles down again.*

[Ruedii-X]

<!--QuoteBegin-Burning Sheep Productions+Dec 28 2004, 11:41 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Burning Sheep Productions @ Dec 28 2004, 11:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <a href='http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jh ... yID=645770' target='_blank'>The article</a> if you need it.<br><br>Ye gads that's a helluva lotta death, 68 big ones!<br>But do you know what pisses me off the most?<br>The fact that the TV news cares more about the 6 dead Australians and 11 unconfirmed then anything else!! They're interviewing the survivors and getting quotes from embassies and everything! Ye GADS bloody hell I don't care what country they're from! Stop being so patriotic it's almost discriminating!!<br><br>*Settles down again.* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Yeah. It was a horible event. Did you hear, there was an entire temporary rip created in the earth's crust from the earthquake that triggered it.<br><br>The CNN account in the US focused on Thailand, the place with the closest populated region, but made mention of every region affected, including Africa, which often gets ignored in US news. They made special note of the concern for the fishermen, and the lost jobs assosiated with the impact to the fishing industry. This was surprising, as normally they would focus on the lost revenue. I bet Fox news put monitary loss to US corperations first, followed by worldwide monitary loss, then delays in shipment, and then deaths and regional economic impact.

[Zylo]

My family's real grateful at this time. I have an uncle who lives in Cambodia (he runs a hotel there) and frequently visits Thailand; luckily he was home at his hotel in Cambodia when it happened and not on one of his frequent vacations to Thailand.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

Sort of the same with my mom's friend, she was going to holiday in Tailand but her Daughter passed a university thing so she went there instead to celebrate and pick her up.

[Muninn]

Apparently some disturbance happened to the earth's axis spinning or something and that days might be three miliseconds shorter than they were before. I thought it got dark early yesterday. Not to mention that the map has changed in some places.

[Miles E Traysandor]

The North Pole was moved by a good 10 feet or so if that's what you meant by that. <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Ozymandias]

The sea bed moved 10m, so that's closer to 30 feet...

[GhostWay]

Some additional links:<br><br><a href='http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=7195443' target='_blank'>Quake May Have Made Earth Wobble--US Scientists</a> (Reuters)<br><a href='http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=7194479' target='_blank'>U.S. Scientists Say Quake Movement Shifted Islands</a> (Reuters)<br><a href='http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/' target='_blank'>Preliminary Earthquake Report</a> (USGS)<br><a href='http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd7.html' target='_blank'>Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts</a> (Australian Spaceguard Survey)<br><br>Also, several websites, such as <a href='http://www.google.com/' target='_blank'>Google</a>, <a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst ... 60-6577448' target='_blank'>Amazon</a> and <a href='http://www.apple.com/' target='_blank'>Apple</a> have modified their front pages to provide information and links for various support organizations.<br><br><br>...and it was 3 microseconds, not milliseconds.

[Zaaphod]

<!--QuoteBegin-DraganFox+Dec 28 2004, 10:00 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (DraganFox @ Dec 28 2004, 10:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> My family's real grateful at this time. I have an uncle who lives in Cambodia (he runs a hotel there) and frequently visits Thailand; luckily he was home at his hotel in Cambodia when it happened and not on one of his frequent vacations to Thailand. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Wow, that's a bit of luck. Glad to hear he's okay. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--><br>

[Muninn]

It's risen to over 80,000. If anyone is willing to give <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/1 ... index.html' target='_blank'>here's</a> a list of links to help.

[simon]

The waves were going at over 500kph, apparently. <!--emo&:o--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> That's about 310 mph by the way.

[GhostWay]

Also, an interesting tidbit I've heard is that there has not been <i>any</i> corpses of wild animals found. It is suspected that the animals "sensed" the Tsunami and headed for higher ground.<br><br>And people say that humans are smarter...

[Muninn]

Yeah I heard that too, I can understand the birds but maybe the others got swept out to sea or something.

[Supersmoke]

117,000 and rising.

[The J.A.M.]

[...unWARP!!!]<br><br>Good evening.<br><br><br>Mexican news report that Sumatra Island moved 30 m to the southeast, and the Earth's axis shifted 5 cm.<br><br>Zacatepngolas!<br><br>Until next time, remember:<br><br>I<br><br>AM<br><br>THE<br><br>J.A.M.<br><br>Good evening.<br><br>[WARP!!!]