|  | 
| 
 | |||||||
| Image of the Day Images that will blow your mind - every day. [Blog] [RSS] [XML] | 
|  | 
|  | Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes | 
|  08-28-2007, 02:23 PM | #1 | 
| Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia 
					Posts: 31,423
				 | 
				
				August 28, 2007: Greece fires from space
			  Yeah yeah, I couldn't help but use the term "greece fires". Sue me. Spacecow first noticed these, and then dar512 posted a copy in our Quality Images area. These are fires as seen from satellite, but the light red bits are actually circles of where the fires actually are. After a week of heat wave there are now over 200 fires during in Greece and other sections of southeastern Europe. | 
|   |   | 
|  08-28-2007, 02:37 PM | #2 | 
| The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 
					Posts: 71,105
				 | 
			
			They have photos of some of these fires being set by arsonists, speculating they were hired by real estate developers. Tragic.
		 
				__________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. | 
|   |   | 
|  08-28-2007, 02:46 PM | #3 | 
| Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA 
					Posts: 4,412
				 | 
			
			Nothing tougher to put out than a "greece" fire.
		 
				__________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you. | 
|   |   | 
|  08-28-2007, 03:18 PM | #4 | 
| syl·la·ble Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Redondo Beach, Ca 
					Posts: 33
				 | 
			
			Guess they better pull Poseidon out of retirement.
		 | 
|   |   | 
|  08-28-2007, 04:26 PM | #5 | 
| LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY!   per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas 
					Posts: 7,661
				 | 
			
			Grease fire !!!! Throw some flour on it !!   
				__________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner | 
|   |   | 
|  08-28-2007, 04:34 PM | #6 | 
| still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 
					Posts: 26,813
				 | 
			
			and eggs
		 
				__________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 12:37 AM | #7 | 
| Writer of Writings Join Date: Jun 2007 
					Posts: 14
				 | 
			
			Actually they are celebrating weed smoking festival. Media is censored to prevent spreading to other countries.
		 | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 04:13 AM | #8 | 
| Mystical Miscreant Join Date: Jul 2007 
					Posts: 46
				 | 
			
			that ain't greek fire. it's really someone's lunch puked up on their blue tablemat.
		 | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 11:52 AM | #9 | 
| Slacker Join Date: May 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY 
					Posts: 144
				 | 
			
			I just got back from Sicily and they have had the same problem.  So they put a moratorium on developing burned forest land for 10 years.  There is also a problem with people setting fires so they will be hired to plant more trees.  <sigh>
		 | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 12:25 PM | #10 | 
| A Certain Someone Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Texas 
					Posts: 5
				 | 
			
			Wouldn't Greece be "southeastern" Europe?
		 | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 01:47 PM | #11 | 
| Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia 
					Posts: 31,423
				 | 
			
			You are correct
		 | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 04:34 PM | #12 | 
| The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 
					Posts: 71,105
				 | 
			
			Welcome to the Cellar, middy.    Were you going somewhere with that observation? 
				__________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 04:36 PM | #13 | 
| still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 
					Posts: 26,813
				 | 
				__________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 04:45 PM | #14 | 
| Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 
					Posts: 10,346
				 | 
			
			Greece "fires" from space: Greece is located in space and is firing something. Like Eats, shoots, and leaves.
		 
				__________________    "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce | 
|   |   | 
|  08-29-2007, 04:55 PM | #15 | |
| The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 
					Posts: 71,105
				 | Quote: 
 
				__________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. | |
|   |   | 
|  | 
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| 
 | 
 |