Coming from a small country (New Zealand) which does a pretty good job of looking after itself, I daresay most of the aid-money following a disaster...
OK, so these states have just broken away, and there's an emergency of some kind in one of these territories (tornado, earthquake, major flood etc)...
Considering that 20 states (so far, anyway) have presented petitions for independence and creating their own governments in the week or so since...
I'd say the first part of continent to be colonised would be the Antarctic Peninsula, because it goes furthest north and is likely to lose its ice...
Even more so in enclosed public spaces like shopping malls, cinemas, et. al.:eek: But seriously, I'm thinking along the lines of getting the...
I'm not suggesting longer weeks would become the norm...I suggest instead that STW could become a 9-day holiday. The other alternative I was thinking...
There are 669 days in the Martian year (that's Martian days, which are about forty minutes longer than Earth days--there are 687 Earth-days in a...
The thought occurred to me that the independence of the Southern states in 1860 or thereabouts would not have been such a terrible thing, if the...
I always thought AH was a pagan, and wanted to replace Christianity with the ancient pre-Christian gods of the original German tribes..,.
In New Zealand they've made it illegal to use a mobile phone while driving--which doesn't bother me, because I don't have a mobie--haven't had one...
The Sun is converting hydrogen into helium (616,000,000 tons H per second into 612,000,000 tons of He) thereby losing 4 million tons of mass per...
Too hot and dry, is the main reason. Not enough rainfall to support plant growth to any great extent, and that which does grow (in the Sahara, at...
Well, considering that the Mediterranean Sea dried up completely several million years ago, I don't see why it would be so difficult for the Dead Sea...
Interesting that one of the women was killed while OBL was using her as a human shield...now, there's a heroic man if I ever saw one...:rolleyes:
No bodies in the cathedral, apparently, though they were expecting to find 22 dead in there--so I'm not sure whether that lowers the toll of missing...
Actually a thought occurred to me last night...the main problem with the Canterbury Plains, as I mentioned in my previous post but one, is that the...
160 dead new official figure.:(
The main problem with Christchurch is that it was built on the site of a swampy floodplain. When the 6.3 earthquake struck, the shockwaves were...
113 reported dead at lunchtime today. I'm in Northland NZ (that's up north of Auckland, not the Christchurch suburb of Northlands, BTW). Thousands of...
Christchurch Earthquake Just an update on the Christchurch Earthquake which happened yesterday at 11.50 am local time. 6.3 on the Richter Scale,...
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