Landmines compared to my iPhone6+: Today, Hua Hin, Thailand Land mines are a cancer upon the earth. Many are impossible to sense with metal detectors. They might last for a hundred years. The kid who ends up finding it will have no idea who put it there, or why, or what it is. This happens every day around the world. And landmines migrate. They wash miles down mountains, into streams and rivers, and float far down stream where they wait underwater, or concentrated in high numbers in dry river beds. They can wash away from the war wherein they started, and into another country. Ten years, twenty, thirty, forty, a farmer hits it with his plough. Fifty years later, a child plays with another. Sixty years later, an elephant loses a foot. (Many elephants have been wounded or killed.) Factory made, low-metal content land mines are terrifically difficult to find even for the best, most well-funded experts. Did I ever say how much I hate land mines? There are not many things I hate. Land mines made the list. Training today:
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:38:45 +0000
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