Largest earthquake on planet in 40 years hits Asia *Death toll at 10,000+...

I forgot what channel I was looking at yesterday but they were interviewing a guy who owned a bungalo bar near the beach and it was completely destroyed. But he also mentioned there was a lady stuck inbetween two trees and the reporter was gagging from the stench. He found the body 6 hours after the first wave and the body still hasnt been removed.

Thats just horrible. And that picture Klonoa linked is just disturbing.

The quake affected the planet by slowing it down by a second. The quake and waves were so powerful that it also moved islands by an unknown amount of distance.

Yep, it's an amazing occurance. GMA today had a man on who shot home video of water engulfing his hotel, and showed a couple clinging onto a railing. The husband was found, while his wife hasn't been. That pic is indeed disturbing, but does put some faces on this tragedy, which might help some here appreciate the fact that so many have lost their lives.

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Originally Posted by toxic

We take it upon ourselves to do so. Although our government does very little (in relation to our GDP), our private sector donates more than 150 billion dollars annually.

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Granted, which is excellent! But... in figures like those the distinction between altruistic donations and investment is rarely ever drawn. Also, most of the US's aid does not go to to the least developed countries, it's like 26%; the majority (around an 8th of all aid pre-September 11) solely goes to Isreal.

See frostwolfex's post, you help everybody the most in real terms and the world would be fucked without you; but relatively, you're not as generous as other countries.

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Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

Strange, at the time cnn was reporting(monday night i think), i recall the official tally from cnn with aus donating 7 million, the us donating 17 million, and the eu. donating 4 million, maybe they were counting strict monetary donations as opposed to manpower and macheniery.

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Nah, from the press releases I've seen it's money. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...2/s1273863.htm

Maybe thats the private donation figures? Apart from Spain, Germany and Belgium; Europe is generally very stingy with the private aid.

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Originally Posted by frostwolfex

consider it this way, consider the us a big football player with a really big lunch, and australia is a smaller soccer player with a more medium sized lunch. a poor kid comes in and the us gives one of their 5 sandwiches, whereas aus gives half of its only sandwich. Now proportionally the soccer player gave more, but the poor kid got a whole sandwich from the footballer and half a sandwich from the soccer player, so in real world application, who helped the poor kids hunger more? the poor kid is liikely thankful to both, since neither had any obligation to help him outside of theoretical moral ones, but he still got a sandwich and a half(plus a quarter of one from the scrawney band nerd-the eu :D )

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Great point and you used a metaphor XD




Anyway, more on topic, a baby survived the tsunami by floating on a mattress.

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That pic is indeed disturbing, but does put some faces on this tragedy, which might help some here appreciate the fact that so many have lost their lives.

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Appreciate it? Jesus.

Final Fantasy is real!
http://quack-quack.net/wave.jpg

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Originally Posted by Rich

Final Fantasy is real!
http://quack-quack.net/wave.jpg

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You're a sick bastard, I hope you know that. It's a waste anyway, it would've been much better if you got a panarama shot of the destruction facing the ocean and put "Sin" in the background.

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Originally Posted by AstroBlue

You're a sick bastard, I hope you know that. It's a waste anyway, it would've been much better if you got a panarama shot of the destruction facing the ocean and put "Sin" in the background.

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I need to find that.

A friend regarding the original picture:

[18:28] CullMoores: geez.....its like corpse stew seasoned with a hint of mattress

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Appreciate it? Jesus.

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Yes, appreciate. As in, realizing the scope of what happened. Learn the language.

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Originally Posted by Rich

Final Fantasy is real!
http://quack-quack.net/wave.jpg

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What the fuck? That's the stupidest, most insensitive thing I've ever seen. I'm not a caring person, I hardly even registered any emotion about this tsunami, but come on, that's a pic of real dead bodies, Jesus.

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Originally Posted by Ex Ranza

Yes, appreciate. As in, realizing the scope of what happened. Learn the language.

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Seeing a few dead faces helps you appreciate the "scope" of the 100,000+ dead people you didn't see. You have a vivid imagination. :)