A huge dock torn from a Japanese port by the 2011 tsunami has washed up 8,050km (5,000 miles) away on the US West Coast after crossing the Pacific.
The 165-tonne structure made of concrete, metal and tyres, and studded with starfish and barnacles, arrived on a beach south-west of Portland, Oregon.
It has tested negative for radiation, but scientists say a host of invasive marine species may have hitched a ride.
Police are guarding the dock while officials decide what to do with it.
A plaque on the 20m-long (66ft) structure, which was first mistaken for a barge, shows it came from the port of Misawa in northern Japan.
Need I say more?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Now if we can only solve the mystery of the missing Jaredite pooh....
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
I always wondered why they had to ride over in footballs. It always seemed odd to me.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Now if we can only solve the mystery of the missing Jaredite pooh....
You mean "Pass the pooh bucket please but empty it out the trap door first"?
Trap door; Which verse is that in?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Drifting wrote: Trap door; Which verse is that in?
Ether 2:20
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Drifting wrote: Trap door; Which verse is that in?
Ether 2:20
20 And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: Behold, thou shalt make a hole in the top, and also in the bottom; and when thou shalt suffer for air thou shalt unstop the hole and receive air. And if it be so that the water come in upon thee, behold, ye shall stop the hole, that ye may not perish in the flood.
Nope, holes for air but no trap door for pooh.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Lol. Maybe, they pushed it through with their fingers?
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
20 And the Lord said unto the brother of Jared: Behold, thou shalt make a hole in the top, and also in the bottom; and when thou shalt suffer for air thou shalt unstop the hole and receive air. And if it be so that the water come in upon thee, behold, ye shall stop the hole, that ye may not perish in the flood.
Nope, holes for air but no trap door for pooh.
I think even if the Lord was very specific about what the hole in the bottom was for Moroni would have edited those details out keeping the record unspotted from the world. Those who think both had to be air hole and conclude that the barge was meant to tumble over and over on itself are wrong.
Nightlion wrote:I think even if the Lord was very specific about what the hole in the bottom was for Moroni would have edited those details out keeping the record unspotted from the world. Those who think both had to be air hole and conclude that the barge was meant to tumble over and over on itself are wrong.
Are you suggesting that they would dump crap through the bottom hole?
I think the biggest problem would be how to get the urine out. At least feces can be dewatered and pushed through holes.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
