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Originally posted by Liamoville
First thing in the morning i'm going to go and stick my own flag in my neighbours pond and claim their house is now mine because i need their vast collection of Microwaveble Meals.
Same logic as Russia?
"'There's a saying here: If you need simple programming work done, give it to India. If you want complicated and serious tasks done, give it to China,' says Vyacheslav Ananyev, communications director at Data East, an Akademgorodok firm that produces Internet mapping software. 'But if you want to solve an unsolvable task, give it to the Russians'"
Russia's claim is not extraordinary. One of the most spectacular continental shelf claims in the World is made by the UK and Ireland, stretching far westwards into the North Atlantic. As Head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Maritime Section at the time, I was deeply involved in the succesful negotiation of the UK/Ireland boundary lines on that shelf.
There is a happy self-limiter here, because if an area contains oil and gas, it is pretty well by definition continental shelf, for obvious geological reasons. The only question is whether it is contiguous and whether it is within an agreed boundary or subject to a legitimate claim by anyone else. Without studying detailed charts, on the face of it current Russian claims look to me perfectly reasonable on both grounds.
Originally posted by Iblis
We plant two MLRS systems at the edge, and fire each respective payload -- Which is made to cover about a square mile.
Can you imagine the Russia's arriving, and finding something like fourty-thousand, tiny, weighted American flags?
It'd be glorious.
Ha ha! That would be hilarious!
At least they aren't stupid enough to try and claim the oil up here in Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. That would be a really dumb move...
Originally posted by Iblis
As long as we're coming up with crazy flag schemes, how about this:
We plant two MLRS systems at the edge, and fire each respective payload -- Which is made to cover about a square mile.
Can you imagine the Russia's arriving, and finding something like fourty-thousand, tiny, weighted American flags?
It'd be glorious.
Originally posted by stumason
Wouldn't work really, although nice idea. MLRS only has a range of 45 km max...
Originally posted by Johnmike
That ice is melting?