Re: Why not donate microwave ovens to the villagers ?

jimp_at_specsol-spam-sux.com
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:26:30 +0000 (UTC)

In sci.physics habshi <habshi@anony.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:21:19 +0000 (UTC), jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com
> wrote:
> >
> Given that a lot of people just watched the ocean recede ,

> As did all the thousands of westerners on the Thai beach . 99%
> of people on this planet read tabloids or comics and dont know that a
> receding ocean means trouble .

Correct, which means your half-baked idea of concrete shelters would
be worthless except maybe as a temporary morgue.

What's needed is big loudspeakers and sirens.

> There has been no tsunami in the Indian ocean for the last 100
> years . Of course now one has happened billions will be spent to set
> the underwater buoys etc.

Which should have been done long ago. 

-- 
Jim Pennino
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