Re: Who to Blame for the Earthquake Victims?

From: Alain Fournier (alain245_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:53:24 -0800

Rand Simberg wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 02:48:48 +0100, in a place far, far away, jacob
> navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
> such a way as to indicate that:
>
>
>>>>There wasn't a tsunami in the indian ocean for
>>>>more than a century. The last was the Krakatoa
>>>>wave, at the beginning of the last century.
>
>
>>>Not even close. You might try reading this group before
>>>posting to it.
>
>
>>The Krakatoa incident
>>
>>The island volcano of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded with devastating
>>fury in 1883.
>
>
> What part of "more than a century" don't you understand? Or are you
> math deficient?

Seems to me that the Krakatoa fits perfectly well the more
than a century part. The part that it doesn't fit is the
beginning of the last century part.

Alain Fournier

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