"Tsunami More Horrifying Than War" (Graphic photo)

[LunaC]

[Mojambo]

1. There is no God. n/t

[RebelOne]

2. This is the third time I've seen this photo posted.

I'm getting tired of seeing it.

[raggedcompany]

5. Me too. Already one of the most over exposed images of '05 n/t

[Mojambo]

8. This is the first time I've seen it n/t

[aquart]

15. I never saw it before.

And I have never seen anything like it.

[Taxloss]

18. Third time for me too.

And a cropped version was in a national UK newspaper on Sunday. Enough already.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Question

I have looked at this picture a lot in the last week (call me morbid) and I am wondering why so many of the bodies are laying face down.

Is that a silly question?

[Mojambo]

4. I don't know, but there is a truly terrible one

Of a child on his back with his arms out stretched towards the sky that I won't be forgetting soon (or ever)

[Bouncy Ball]

7. There's also a small baby

near the water's edge. They both haunt me.

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. gravity and gas buildup

Gas builds up in the torso and the legs and arms don't get quite so much gas buildup, so the body rotates face down.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Thank you

Makes sense

[fob]

9. No it's not silly. It's the ones face up with their arms frozen

outstretched as if they were just about to grab a hold of something but just couldn't make it.

Unbelievable. Speechless...

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. I heard on CNN

last night that some of the rivers in Indonesia are unnavigable because there are so many bodies in them.

Another horrifying image.

[RobertSeattle]

10. Might have something to do with how the body decomposes

Perhaps the gasses causes the body to become face down when floating in water.

(Probably been done on CSI but I don't watch the show)

[Dora]

11. Legs

I think the weight of the legs pulls the bodies over into a face-down floating position.

[fryguy]

13. geography?

is there any information about which country and/or locality this comes from? i'd imagine most likely thailand (seems there is thai writing on the signs), but was wondering if anyone had more definitive knowledge.

[MrSlayer]

16. Man there are a lot of bodies.

Horrible, simply horrible.

[toddaa]

17. The Bush Meme is virulent

This picture is horrifying. However, I think that if we could place all the bodies of the dead from the attack on Fallujah into a convenient 6x4 photo, the "Tsunami More Horrifying than War" meme would loose some of its potency.