Comments on: Pirates Captured https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Gohot https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529109 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:24:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529109 The mother wanting her poor son returned because he was really a victim and so young…. hogwash, he was ready to exicute the Captain, prosicute him. or take him back where you got him and drop him off, late at nite ….. when no ones around.

]]> By: MIke Haubrich, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529108 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:02:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529108 For some reason that thought really … frightens me.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529107 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:45:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529107 Mike: That is so Newt. You need to get with the program and get more Anne.

]]> By: MIke Haubrich, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529106 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:10:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529106 Um. Greg, didn’t you get the memo? We subsitute the word “Freedom” for “French” now. So, you never, ever engage in “Freedom-bashing.”

Am I getting this New Patriotism thing right?

]]> By: Pyre https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529105 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:31:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529105 Greg: “Personally, I totally object to French bashing and I never, ever do it.”

As opposed to French baisers, right?

]]> By: Pyre https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529104 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:12:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529104 Until the Yellowstone quake-swarm, no-one put quite the effort into capturing pirates, because they served the useful purpose of impeding global warming.

Now, with the prospect of volcanic winter, priorities have shifted to locking up all pirates everywhere: we’ll need all the heat we can get.

See? See?

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529103 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:51:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529103 I saw an item that some ships have used high pressure water sprays to successfully deter pirates. A better material might be fire fighting foam. The advantage of foam is that it doesn?t disperse as readily as water and it blocks vision. A few inches of foam on a windshield would completely obscure vision through it. Evasive maneuvers by the ship being pursued would be a lot more effective if the pirates were rendered blind by foam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_fighting_foam

A slippery deck would help too.

]]> By: Inoculated Mind https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529102 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:47:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529102

didn’t understand your reference, and in fact I still don’t.

He’s talking about the inverse relationship between global temperature and the number of pirates in the world. It’s a central tenet of Pastafarianism. If they killed the pirates, global temperature would rise, so they are worth carbon credits!

]]> By: bernarda https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529101 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:23:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529101 My excuses Greg, but I didn’t understand your reference, and in fact I still don’t.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529100 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:50:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/pirates-captured/#comment-529100 Bernarda: in what way is my joke about the flying spaghetti monster ignorant French bashing? Personally, I totally object to French bashing and I never, ever do it. Seriously.

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