Today In history....

Idris

August 9th 1945-

-The US Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

@ 11:02 am, the bomb code named "Fat Boy" was dropped over Nagasaki Japan, killing est -80,000-100,000 people on the first day, thousands more months and years later due to cancers/radiation/burns. (65 years on)

The bomb did not differentiate the young from the old, nor the soldier from the school child, The bomb destroyed without hesitation, with no bias. It did it's job and killed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqN_rutJIc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqXX4GUETSg



in truth,

Idris

August 11, 1992

The Mall of America, Americas largest mall (Church?place of worship?) opened it's doors. Cost 650Million (USD)

AELARA

In the evening on Tuesday 26 September 2000 MS Express Samina* hit the Portes islets off the bay of Parikia, Paros and sunk near there at 23:02 resulting in the deaths of 82 people from a total of 473 passengers and 61 crew members. The fact that some of the crew did not help the passengers evacuate the sinking ferry contributed to the death toll.

The crew placed the ship on autopilot and did not have a crew member watch the ship. Even with autopilot standard practice calls for one crew member to watch the controls since the wind and currents drag the ship to a degree that cannot be compensated by the electronic systems. The crew deployed the fin stabilizers system to decrease the motions in bad weather; normally both stabilizer fins deployed, but in this case the port stabilizer fin did not deploy. This caused the ship to drift and therefore not travel in a straight line. A crew member discovered the problem and, at the last minute, tried to steer the ship to port. This action occurred too late. At 10:12 P.M. the ship struck the east face of the taller Portes pinnacle. The rocks tore a six-meter long and one-meter wide hole above the water line. After that impact, the rocks bent the stabilizer fin backwards, and the fin cut through the hull through the side, below the waterline, and next to the engine room. The water from the three-meter gash destroyed the main generators and ended electrical power. Professor David Molyneaux, a ship safety expert, said that the damage sustained by the MS Express Samina should not normally sink such a ship. The ship sank because nine of the ship's eleven watertight compartment doors were open when safety laws require ship operators to close and lock the safety doors. The water spread beyond the engine room, and due to a lack of power the operators could not remotely shut the doors. Molyneaux described the open watertight doors as the most significant aspect of the sinking.

* MS Express Samina (Greek: Εξπρές Σαμίνα) was a RORO passenger ferry built as MS Corse In 1966 at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France for Compagnie Generale Transatlantique along with her sister ship MS Comte De Nice. In 1969 she was transferred to Compagnie Generale Transmediterraneenne. After six years service, the company changed its name again, to SNCM to which she was transferred. In 1982 she sailed from France for the last time as she was sold to a Greek company, Stability Maritime, to operate their Italy-Greece-Israel route under her new name MS Golden Vergina. In 1988 she was sold to the Agapitos Bros for service in the Aegean sea without name change under Agapitos Lines. In 1999 she was sold to Minoan Flying Dolphins, again for service in the Aegean, re-named MS Express Samina.