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- From: olavs@Lise.Unit.NO (Olav S|yseth)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Shetland Oil Spill
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.012959.13941@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 01:29:59 GMT
- References: <rodger.1@ray.uct.ac.za> <JMC.93Jan8160310@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
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- In article <JMC.93Jan8160310@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
- > As disasters go, tankers running aground have been minor compared to
- > earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, city-wide fires, big forest fires,
- > outbreaks of cholera, munition ship explosions and big socker riots.
- >
- > --
- > John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- > *
- > He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
-
- but then its not much to do about earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes etc. ?
- It is possible to avoid tanker disasters.
-