Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The Best of Pravda
...but fairly interesting. Apparently you can hire a German simply because they are...well...german. With a name like "Schroeder," sounds right to me.
PRAVDA GOES SCIFI
First they make a discovery
Ants with sadistic tendencies discovered
Then they send them here:
Another monstrous ecological disaster possible at Chernobyl
Next thing you know -- 50's science fiction movie. THE GIANT SADISTIC ANT THAT ATE MY GRANDMOTHER.
I should not make fun of the Chernobyl story, it is very serious business. The decaying state of the sarcophagus has actually been known for years. It was evident when I was there in 1991 -- some seven years after the accident. I'm thinking that some international coalition is going to eventually have to take charge of the site. The nation responsible for the catastrophe no longer exists and the cost of maintaining security at the site is beyond the capability of almost any nation but the US. The site could cause damage across a huge swath of the planet.
