Makes you wonder if dropping them all over the damn place is such a good idea.
As a German I’m very thankful some people fought the nazi assholes.
Who cares? The victim’s dehumanized anyway. /s
Every year across the nation, Belgium’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Destruction Service responds to more than 3,000 calls and disposes of 200 to 250 tons of munitions left over from both world wars.
That’s a lot.
Yep, this is the usual scenario in Slovenia as well and makes firefighting much more problematic and dangerous than it already is. Luckily we bought a bunch of air tractors to do the job from the above.
After we’re gone, subsequent species will discover a mustard gas cylinder, and think it’s some advanced sign of civilization.
Then it’ll go off and they’ll hate us as much as we hate ourselves.
Expose? Was the bomb doing something clandestine?
Exposed to the air / elements I guess?
Fueled by climate change, the fires and explosions show that the continent’s “climatic luck” is running out, said Sarah Njeri, a peace and conflict scholar at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Steady temperatures and predictable rainfall once ensured that most buried weapons stayed dormant.
“Climate change is now doing the work of unburying and reactivating what was previously stable,” Njeri said. Fires can ignite old munitions but can also burn away the scrub and brush that hides them.
Maybe they’ve taken to this whole loitering thing I keep hearing about
Expose as in ‘exhibitionist’, not as in ‘spy’.
Stupid, sexy unexploded ordinance
Anyone complains about the fires in North America needs to be sent to fight those. Either they’ll do the job, or the job will do them.
Kind of a silly comparison. A lot of the fires in US are because they imported eucalyptus trees from Australia, which have literally evolved to grow oil on their leaves and want to burn.
That’s why Aussie bushfires are so insane every season too.
Here in Australia we don’t need unexploded ordinates. Our trees are basically barrels of petrol, and in minor gusts even, firefighters can get overrun by a wall of fire quickly
It was late Sat night and I was in my cups and being silly.
