Friday, January 07, 2005

Cost Overrun Early Warning System

Tsunami warnings for those in the know…

Yesterday evening, I happened to catch a blurb from some politico talking head, I can’t recall whom, who uttered something to the effect that spending alot of dollars, gathered of course from the pockets of the unwilling, to install a tsunami warning system out in the world’s oceans, would “possibly avert” a future tsunami disaster of the proportions we have recently been made aware of.

Undoubtedly, such a system would provide a soothing balm to the minds of the world’s leaders, who could then offer this early warning system as a carrot to the masses; you’ll be safe, now, little ones; but as to the system having the ability to possibly avert a future tsunami disaster, I find that difficult to digest.

In fact, I find the calls for spending millions, if not billions, on installing a tsunami early warning system, as fatuous as the B612 Foundation’s lobbying Congress for monies to move asteroids around in space, or Alex Taborrak’s call for monies for an asteroid disaster early warning system.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/07 at 06:22 AM
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