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To: LindyBill who wrote (92698)12/29/2004 5:10:20 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793868
 
Silent Running - Have a drink on us

Bryan reports in the comments that a particularly thick skulled BBC twit posed the following question to one of the commanders of US Navy ships headed into the area affected by the Tsunami to render assistance -

BBC: "But the need for water is so great, how can you possibly make a difference?"
Commander: "We can provide a considerable amount of water."

Modern Naval Vessels are amazing pieces of machinery. Now, while the peace loving souls of the BBC may only be myopic enough to see the more spectacular uses for such contraptions (such as launching wave after wave of precision guided muniton carrying aircraft to pulverize anything and everything within a given radius of flight). Aside from these hegemonic, imperialistic, and cravenly warmongering applications, they also do more mundane day to day things. Things that appear to obviously go totally unnoticed and unappreciated by the average hystrionic and incredulous correspondent of the Brainless Blithering Corporation.

Such as make fresh water. Constantly. On the order of almost a half a million gallons of water. Each day, in the case of the Nimitz class ships. Ships like the Abraham Lincoln, currently enroute to the affected area.

Hey! Aircraft carriers! They're not just good for photo ops, kids!
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