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Fortunately, humanity still has some visionaries and pioneers.
Spaceport America Tourism will play a major role in future space exploration.
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2009-06-19, 11:01 | Link #3042 |
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I've only seen rumblings so far from more right leaning news sources but has anyone else heard anything substantial from a credible source about the supposed interdiction of a N.Korea ship by a U.S. destroyer? It hasn't happened yet but I've been seeing reports that it could happen at any moment since last night, but I've yet to see it really take hold in more main stream news outlets so I'm not sure of it's validity. Anyway I'm hoping somebody with more news sources than me might have more info on this. It could potentially be a pretty bad political move if we intercept a ship from N. Korea that we think has possible nukes (or things related to their construction on board ) only to have it end up having cabbage or something under it's tarp.
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2009-06-19, 11:12 | Link #3043 | |
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I would have thought letting the Singapore authorities board the ship for inspection when it arrived, and having them excersie their legal authority in support of the UN resolution would have been the most likely thing to happen. This interception does ultimately pose the risk of escalating tensions between North Korea and the U.S.
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2009-06-19, 15:12 | Link #3044 | |
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2009-06-19, 15:37 | Link #3045 | |
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2009-06-19, 16:44 | Link #3046 | |
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2009-06-21, 00:31 | Link #3047 |
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New York Times reporter escapes Taliban captivity
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2009-06-21, 14:42 | Link #3048 |
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OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STIG REVEALED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! I'll admit I'm surprised, thought it had to be a former F1 driver but did not expect that!!! not gonna say who atm as the show is still airing.
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2009-06-21, 17:50 | Link #3050 | |
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Japan whaling town gets season's first catch
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2009-06-21, 22:44 | Link #3051 |
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/7609258@N07/ But pairing such beauty with a pair of lowly iBud ? @Shadow Kira01: which tastes better, BTW? |
2009-06-22, 01:54 | Link #3052 |
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I see you're ignoring the 679 minke whales that were killed as well. The goal was 985 whales and they got 680. That's 69% of the goal. Let's drop that down to say 64% though to air on the side of caution since fin whales are bigger. Besides, fin whales are endangered. Hunting an endangered species should not be allowed at all. Don't like it because it interferes with "cultural heretige"? What would happen to this heretige when the species is extinct?
As for the protesters mentioned, they're worse than PETA in giving environmentalists a bad name. There's a show called Whale Wars, which is basicly a film crew recording them in their "protests". I hear there are episodes of it up on animal planet's web site. From what I've heard of the show, I don't think anyone would blame you for calling for their heads on a pike.
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2009-06-22, 02:56 | Link #3053 | |
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The guys who are protesting the actions of research whaling is just overdoing it as that it is not much of a big deal. Perhaps, there are people who would go and meddle with another's meal on the behalf of marine creatures known as fishes as that the fishes cannot talk or complain. However, I think the feeling of anti-whaling is just like my feeling towards people who eat frogs which look like adorable little green reptialian creatures but I wouldn't make a fuss over it though. If the species extinct, then its too bad. Eat sharks next! Actually, I do eat sharks, btw.. |
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2009-06-22, 04:31 | Link #3055 | |
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2009-06-22, 05:59 | Link #3056 | |
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2009-06-22, 09:33 | Link #3057 |
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you can't compare whaling and eating whales to eating pigs.
pigs are domesticated. we raise them ourselves to fulfill our "cultural tradition" of eating pork. (unless you are a vegetarian, Jewish or a 7th day Adventist.) your (or their) argument just doesn't hold water. whales have nearly year long developmental periods before they give birth and take years to reach adult size and sexual maturity. (same goes for sharks) pigs, fish, chickens, and any other domesticated animal have fairly regular reproduction cycles, produce more than one offspring, and grow rather quickly in comparison to the whales. Unless the Japanese develop a method of domesticating the whales they wish to eat, than I simply cannot support their "whaling research" to fulling their "cultural traditions"
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2009-06-22, 10:03 | Link #3058 |
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You shouldn't take *any* creature for eating faster than the ecosystem's ability to replenish it... d'uh?
The world's fishing stocks are crashing because humans as a collective are too greedy individually to follow that simple rule. In fact, I'm not sure most of humanity can handle math concepts more complicated than "one, two, .... many!" -- as long as they see "many!" they just keep a'whackin'.
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2009-06-22, 10:46 | Link #3059 | |
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As for the japanese whale hunting, I really don't see the point in it. There is hardly any demand for the meat whatsoever and it just ends up getting dumped off onto the public schools. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/environment-japan-whale.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11258464/ http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/
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2009-06-22, 13:06 | Link #3060 |
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People are flat out too greedy most of the time. However with the decline of whale meat demand we'll see another dying industry. In reality they should be whaling less and bumping the prices up, it'd be more efficent for them anyways, as there's not much demand right now.
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