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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 03:29 PM
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could this be the world of tomorrow...?
Edited on Sat Apr-02-11 03:33 PM by kpete
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 03:32 PM
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1. The just completed amusement park that never got to open...
the books and teddy bears in school classrooms and bedrooms.... Hollywood could not have created a more eery backdrop. It is strange how "mere" animals can instinctively learn from their mistakes and how the so superior intellect of man, seemingly, can not.
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Thunderstruck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 03:42 PM
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2. The wind whistles through the shattered windows of long-abandoned apartment
buildings, singing against the metal spokes of a lonely ferris wheel, no riders from Pripyat to fill her seats, no joy to gain from its stillness.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 04:12 PM
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3. hlthe2b and Thunderstruck's posts are so sad - and so right-on. nt
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 04:15 PM
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4. No.
Edited on Sat Apr-02-11 04:15 PM by Warren DeMontague
It's entirely possible, given the sheer inventory of radioactive material at Fukushima, that the world of tomorrow may be far worse.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 04:22 PM
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5. My favorite of the pics...
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 04:23 PM
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6. What are they looking for in those trucks? nt
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 04:23 PM
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7. Aren't those people afraid they're going to get contaminated and radiated on?
I guess not.
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