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US Claimed the Moon...Russia Claims the Arctic Ocean
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| tubularbills |
I dunno, i still think the moon is cooler....
| quote: | MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- An expedition aimed at strengthening Russia's claim to much of the oil and gas wealth beneath the Arctic Ocean reached the North Pole on Wednesday, and preparations immediately began for two mini-submarines to drop a capsule containing a Russian flag to the sea floor.
Akademik Fedorov is carrying about 100 scientists in a bid to stake Moscow's claim to the Arctic sea bed.
The Rossiya icebreaker had plowed a path to the pole through an unbroken sheet of multiyear ice, clearing the way for the Akademik Fedorov research ship to follow, said Sergei Balyasnikov, a spokesman for the Arctic and Antarctic research institute that prepared the expedition.
"For the first time in history people will go down to the sea bed under the North Pole," Balyasnikov told The Associated Press. "It's like putting a flag on the moon."
Russian scientists hope to dive in two mini-submarines beneath the pole to a depth of more than 13,200 feet, and drop a metal capsule containing the Russian flag on the sea bed. |
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiap...b.ap/index.html
| quote: | | So, the Russians claimed a great scientific discovery late last month. An expedition of 50 scientists that spent 45 days aboard the Rossia nuclear ice-breaker found that an underwater ridge (the Lomonosov ridge) directly links Russia's Arctic coast to the North Pole. This, they insist, surely guarantees Russia's rights over a vast Polar territory that also happens to contain some 10 billion tons of oil and natural gas deposits. |
http://www.time.com/time/world/arti...1642905,00.html |
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| RJT |
Look out folks, Russia is on the move again.
Time to get out your "Handy Joe's 'How to Spot a Commie!' Guidebook" back out. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
Look out folks, Russia is on the move again.
Time to get out your "Handy Joe's 'How to Spot a Commie!' Guidebook" back out. |
i'm attacking from Alaska to Kamchatka!! |
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| leph555 |
| Damn americans never went to the moon :rolleyes: :o |
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| Subey |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
i'm attacking from Alaska to Kamchatka!! |
That image has to be fake, it is impossible to hold asia |
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| plastikE |
what's funny is when the real breakthrough with alternative fuels comes about and oil becomes, well, a dinosaur.
poor Russia, always thinking ahead...... |
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| Subey |
| quote: | Originally posted by plastikE
what's funny is when the real breakthrough with alternative fuels comes about and oil becomes, well, a dinosaur.
poor Russia, always thinking ahead...... |
That's was some forward thinking installing that shelf on the ocean floor 101 million years ago :clown: |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
Look out folks, Russia is on the move again.
Time to get out your "Handy Joe's 'How to Spot a Commie!' Guidebook" back out. |
Oh . Looks like Poland is gonna get taken over again. |
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| Beat Blog |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
Oh . Looks like Poland is gonna get taken over again. |
When did Russia ever take over Poland? |
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| Krypton |
Commies are back!!
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
When did Russia ever take over Poland? |
1939, USSR invaded half of Poland. The Nazi's kicked them out in 1941. The USSR reinvaded Poland in 1944, kept it in its grasp until 1990. |
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