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Old 11-19-2008
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Re: Somali Officials Suspicious Of Citizen's New Oil Tanker

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Originally Posted by John Drake View Post
Steve, even if they did use a missile on it you'd be very unlikely to kill the pirates, who would have plenty of time to kill the crew and escape before the whole ship either went up in flames, or, much more likely, caused the worst environmental disaster in history. And in any case you've just lost 100 million tons of Saudi Sweet Crude
Geez.

Go get educated and get back to me, Slick.

That's not a missle. It's a Mk 46 Mod 0 surface launched torpedo. I've never suggested using missles.

But I'll just chalk that up to your growing list of profoudly ignorant ramblings.

The cool thing about torpedos is that they can be fired, with insane accuracy, from miles away. Assuming someone on deck did see its' underwater wake, by the time they saw it they would have about enough to burp out half a prayer to their god before the ship explodes and sinks.

Obviously, you have no knowledge, whatsoever, of what a torpedo can do. A Mk46 slamming into the hull of an oil tanker would be Armageddon on the high seas.

Then again, Hell, you don't even know what a torpedo is, so your opinions on the matter are easily dismissable...

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Of course I'm not surprised you suggested it.
Well, you should should be. Most things that make absolute sense are foreign to you...
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