Posted on 01/04/2014 2:33:13 PM PST by Third Person
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly,
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she’ll die.
I know an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she’ll die.
I know an old lady who swallowed a bird,
How absurd to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she’ll die.
Isn't that a little outside their jurisdiction? Didn't we have any US Navy in the area?
Wiki says it’s fresh from a refit....
Why do I have a bad feeling?
What do you mean?
I think most folks figured that one way or another American taxpayers would end up paying for this nonsense.
Tell’em to chill.
Global warming will remediate the situation.
US Coast Guard to save the Global Cooling deniers.
It’s not a joke to the crews of any of those ships
and that includes the American one.
“Isn’t that a little outside their jurisdiction? Didn’t we have any US Navy in the area? “
Maybe the USN doesn’t have any icebreakers or at least one the size of the Polar Star. Just wondering what it’s doing in Sydney , unless the USCG works Antartica because we have research people there.
Keystone cops
The navy doesn't have any icebreakers. The Coast Guard does. So does Canada, though I think all of them are in home waters.
The USCG icebreaker was already on route to Antarctica. It started that way Dec 3.
The intended mission of the Polar Star is to clear a navigable shipping channel in McMurdo Sound to the National Science Foundations Scientific Research Station.
It’s gonna look like a parking lot down there before that ice melts!!
This story is far from over because the Polar Star is rated at breaking ice less than 1 meter thicker than the stuck Chinese icebreaker.
Donner !!! Party of 20, you’re table is ready...
Are you sure about that? The Polar Star can break ice 21 feet thick.
American taxpayers to the rescue... see post #6.
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