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Delivery of Food Packets
Contributed
October 10, 2001
By Frank Abernathy
Title: Gentle Landings
Perhaps this is not a problem. But the food packets I saw on TV might land
more gently if they were provided with wings like those on a maple seed. Let them "helicopter" down to the ground. Or attach small balloons filled with
enough helium to allow them to fall slowly to earth.
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Comments:
December
30, 2001 - Anthony Maresco
I once read graffiti that said, "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime".
President Harry Truman, I believe, said, "If you want your children to succeed, ask them what they like to do, and tell them to do it".
As far as the food packets, I heard many such food "packets" may land near old land mines, and, could resemble cluster bombs (See
www.cdi.org). I think those who supplied the weapons of war that decimated the land - once providing food/income from the fruit of many trees, but now
looks like a desert - should supply two things:
1.Food in such quantities that eliminates fighting over the supply, dropped using parachutes.
2.Trees that replace those destroyed during the "Cold War" conflict.
In return, the elected government - we are working to establish - may choose to allow the oil pipeline that may be the reason for all the fighting.
Check out the writings of Zbigniew Brzezinski. He was the National Security Advisor under the Carter Administration; also, partially under the
Reagan Administration. See Brzezinski's book and/or www.cdi.org.
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December
19, 2001 -
Toby Dorsett
I think the problem is we need to quit sending them food and start sending them Winnebagos. They need to move to where the food
is. They live in the middle of a freeking desert. "See this? It's sand ! You know what it's going to be 10,000 years from now? SAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTHING GROWS IN SAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was taken from an old HBO comedy special by the late Sam Kennison. In my opinion he pretty much said it all.
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16 Nov 2001 - Noted by R. Weekley
Article
on Food Packets/Pentagon from Reuters.
13 Nov 2001 - R. Weekley
The glide ratio needs to be low to control the
landing target zone from several thousand feet.
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July 12, 2002 - Shawn Peterson
Though people living in deserts starving isn't funny. Your idea of the obvious
choice of moving to where the food is. My idea is for the countries of the
civilized world to build desalination plants around the world for though who
need it and cant build them and pipelines to boot. The world would be a greener
place if seawater could be transformed into fresh water and a more economical
way of building and piping this water is badly needed
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