Asian death toll reaches 44,000 - Page 2

Crash · 12-29-2004, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by The Strangler

Well all of these countries should feel much better now, as I just saw on TV that France has pledged $136,000 to the relief effort...

In case you didn't get it, that was DRIPPING with sarcasm. And people wonder why we hate France...

$136,000??? and they were making fun of the US's $20 Million

you could rebuild one of the ocean side bungalos for the $136,000.... wow good job france...

other horrible natural disasters

The Great Tangshan Earthquake, 1976

it was in china and killed over 240,000 people (some reports say 655,000 people dead, and 780,000 injured, dunno why the differences so big) .... I doubt this will top that...

it's easy for a lot of people to die in one area when it is so over crowded.

The Great China Earthquake of 1556

The worse natural disaster in recorded history, at least in terms of lives lost, was caused by an earthquake in Hausien in the Shensi Province of China in 1556. The earthquake devastated 98 counties and eight provinces of Central China. The destruction spanned an area of 500 miles, and in some counties the average death toll was 60 percent of the population. A total of 830,000 people lost their lives, most of them from the collapse of poorly constructed houses. The magnitude of this earthquake has been estimated to be from 8.0 to 8.3 on the Richter scale.

Neo · 12-29-2004, 12:27 PM

Whoa....We're up to 80,000...

Stonecutter · 12-29-2004, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Ace195

Dude, that completly sucks. Makes me wonder if the scenario in the movie day after tomorrow could really happen, maybe not the next ice age but the tornado's and whatnot.

No.

Ace195 · 12-29-2004, 04:59 PM

Why thank you god, And I'd like to see your PhD on meterology now thankyou... Oh and crash, I did some looking Jet Li is safe and sound he reported into his agent and his family

Neo · 12-29-2004, 05:01 PM

Don't test SC, or he will pull out his Ph.D. I promise.

GT News · 12-29-2004, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Neo

Don't test SC, or he will pull out his Ph.D. I promise.

Ok I'll try not to do

test SC or he will pull out his Ph

too much.The ALICE chat robot can follow many things, like our discussion about test SC or he will pull out his Ph. But I did not get that.

Neo · 12-29-2004, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by CamFuBot

Ok I'll try not to do

test SC or he will pull out his Ph

too much.The ALICE chat robot can follow many things, like our discussion about test SC or he will pull out his Ph. But I did not get that.

Which is why you don't have one. HAHA Ha ......Ha.

GameMaster · 12-29-2004, 05:26 PM

Not only has the quake taken thousand of lives, but it may have also shortened days by a fraction of a second and caused the planet to wobble on its axis.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science...eut/index.html

Acebot44 · 12-29-2004, 08:44 PM

Here are some videos.....I was just thinking WOW the whole time...

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Bond · 12-29-2004, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Ace195

Why thank you god, And I'd like to see your PhD on meterology now thankyou... Oh and crash, I did some looking Jet Li is safe and sound he reported into his agent and his family

Stonecutter is right here. It will never happen.

Ace195 · 12-30-2004, 01:33 AM

Are you so sure? Who's to know what happens in the next tens of thousands of years ? I mean are you GOD ? You guys might be admin but really ? who knows ? So you saying it will never happen is wrong in itself. You never know we may cause the world to go into a self descruct phase.. God forbid and all because my kids and my kids kids don't deserve that..

Joeiss · 12-30-2004, 03:46 AM

Holy ****, those videos were nuts!

Typhoid · 12-30-2004, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Jonbo

Actually, its a mixture of both. I heard that over the years, hotel resorts and whatnot have been moving closer to the coastline and with all the people who were moving closer to it, this is the result. So it was a natural cause with man made things (or just people in general) moving closer to the coastline.

Yes, so what..resorts are near the coast...that doesnt mean the earthquake, and Tsunami was man made. It just means people were in harms way. Like if an earthquake happens in San Fran, its not the fault of the people for making a city on a fault line.

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Originally Posted by Crash

$136,000??? and they were making fun of the US's $20 Million

Canada gave $40 million.

And Yeah, those videos were insanely awesome.

KillerGremlin · 12-30-2004, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Ace195

Are you so sure? Who's to know what happens in the next tens of thousands of years ? I mean are you GOD ? You guys might be admin but really ? who knows ? So you saying it will never happen is wrong in itself. You never know we may cause the world to go into a self descruct phase.. God forbid and all because my kids and my kids kids don't deserve that..

I don't want to start a religious debate, but until you have concrete evidence to prove the existance of god, don't be using him as support to defend a concept that transpired in one of the worst Hollywood blockbusters to come out in the last 10 years.

Canyarion · 12-30-2004, 11:56 AM

I just want to say how grieved we are.

The world is going down the drain, as the bible predicted.