Current Affairs Tsunami sweeps through South East Asia

My god... I never realized it was really that bad. I'm honestly amazed (and horrified) that this could happen.

And, I'm trying to do my part. I serve a number of people every day, (100+ at least) and, with all of them that use the deli's till, I ask if they want to donate to the Red Cross. Unfortunately, rather few take up the offer.

[EDIT] 800 posts. Seems kind of mean to celebrate it, though, after seeing that kind of destruction.

 

This program probably needs more funding...

"Satellite technologies being developed at NASA and elsewhere might be able to spot the signs of an impending quake days or weeks before it strikes, giving the public and emergency planners time to prepare." from

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/earthquakes.html

Have done a lot of web-surfing on this and found our knowledge of tectonic activity is really quite poor - eg. mysterious "earthquake" lights - no one can agree what they are. No concrete science exists on this - hence the pages entitled "UFO's sighted in tsunami zone!"

If we had only got this science - 150,000 could have been saved!