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		Babylon's Hanging Gardens--one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World--is about to get boned by oil whores (news.yahoo.com)		109
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Rapmaster2000		2012-05-17 10:31:28 AM

a pipeline that one side insists threatens the site and could cause irreparable damage to the ruins.

Yo dawg, I heard you like ruins. So we put in a pipeline next to your ruins, so you can ruin your ruins while your ruins get ruined.

loveblondieo		2012-05-17 11:03:09 AM

Don't worry. We just need to build Michelangelo's Chapel and Civilization will be fine.

AbbeySomeone		2012-05-17 11:07:30 AM

It does seem that there might be a way to go round this.

Sybarite		2012-05-17 11:08:00 AM

De more man build oil pipeline, de more Babylon fall.

FriarReb98		2012-05-17 11:22:57 AM

Look, as a guy with a degree in history, I get why it's important to protect these sites. But the archaeologist mentality of "something *could* be there" always bugs me. Maybe it's the philosopher in me, but protecting sites and freezing them in time just seems to take the soul out of them sometimes.

gameshowhost		2012-05-17 12:41:53 PM

Drill Jerusalem! Drill now!

ThreeEdgedSword		2012-05-17 12:44:02 PM

loveblondieo: Don't worry. We just need to build Michelangelo's Chapel and Civilization will be fine.

I think the Pyramids would be more helpful. Better build those soon!

Psycoholic_Slag		2012-05-17 12:44:18 PM

By "oil whores" you mean everybody who benifits from petroleum?
Take away the profit and they will quit drilling.

*snark*

thecpt		2012-05-17 12:45:48 PM

FriarReb98: Look, as a guy with a degree in history, I get why it's important to protect these sites. But the archaeologist mentality of "something *could* be there" always bugs me. Maybe it's the philosopher in me, but protecting sites and freezing them in time just seems to take the soul out of them sometimes.

Yeah, I thought they have never actually found it and that most of what was said about it was just Alexander's men BSing everybody. At least from what I've read in multiple antiquity books and not just cracked articles.

dittybopper		2012-05-17 12:46:02 PM

Hey, I approve of boning oiled whores.

wumpus		2012-05-17 12:46:06 PM

FTA

"Iraq is a country rich in history and archaeological sites that offer great potential for tourism"

CavalierEternal		2012-05-17 12:46:21 PM

ThreeEdgedSword: loveblondieo: Don't worry. We just need to build Michelangelo's Chapel and Civilization will be fine.

I think the Pyramids would be more helpful. Better build those soon!

The Kremlin would cause 2X attrition damage to enemy units.

Oldiron_79		2012-05-17 12:46:25 PM

TheShavingofOccam123		2012-05-17 12:47:07 PM

Subby, have you forgotten the one building in all of Iraq the invading US troops decided to protect? That's right, it was the oil ministry building.

Why would you think the oil companies would have a change of mind and actually protect antiquities?

Evil Mackerel		2012-05-17 12:47:31 PM

The Minbari are going to be pissed.

Nightsweat		2012-05-17 12:47:54 PM

Bryan Ferry is gonna be pissed.

Therion		2012-05-17 12:48:20 PM

"We did not find any traces or evidence of the existence of antiquities during the drilling operations."

(in the background, workers could be seen hastily washing down equipment with high-pressure hoses and dumping the slurry into large open pits that are then hastily covered over by massive bulldozers)

GreaseMonkey		2012-05-17 12:48:39 PM

FTA: Iraq is a country rich in history and archaeological sites that offer great potential for tourism

Was planning next years vacation there, but if I have to be subjected to oil pipelines ruining my view, then hell no. I'll go to Afghanistan instead.

RibbyK		2012-05-17 12:48:46 PM

FTA: could cause irreparable damage to the ruins.

Doesn't "irreparable damage" mean "ruin"?

Nuclear Monk		2012-05-17 12:50:06 PM

ThreeEdgedSword: loveblondieo: Don't worry. We just need to build Michelangelo's Chapel and Civilization will be fine.

I think the Pyramids would be more helpful. Better build those soon!

By now, the effect of the Hanging Gardens has already been nullified by Steam Power

kbronsito		2012-05-17 12:50:20 PM

dittybopper: Hey, I approve of boning oiled whores.

The oiled whores of Babylon.

RibbyK		2012-05-17 12:51:40 PM

kbronsito: dittybopper: Hey, I approve of boning oiled whores.
The oiled whores of Babylon.
www.thewb.com

Victoly		2012-05-17 12:52:21 PM

Cover my face as the animals die.

/ In the hanging garden

Salmon		2012-05-17 12:52:29 PM

Can't we just move it with our trucks?

i331.photobucket.com

moops		2012-05-17 12:53:01 PM

loveblondieo: Don't worry. We just need to build Michelangelo's Chapel and Civilization will be fine.

I go with the Parthenon, The Great Pyramids, and The Great Library.

LarryDan43		2012-05-17 12:53:03 PM

RibbyK: FTA: could cause irreparable damage to the ruins.

Doesn't "irreparable damage" mean "ruin"?

Yo dawg I heard you like repeating the headline...

engine		2012-05-17 12:53:24 PM

meh it'll just make the archaeological ruin in a few thousand years even more interesting: "And now students you can see that in or about the year 2000 people actually decimated untold treasures in search for what we now know was the cancer of the age: oil A tragic and longstanding reminder of the greed fueled stupidity of their time."

/The more things change the more they stay the same

MythDragon		2012-05-17 12:54:15 PM

I've actualy been there. It was pretty damn cool to walk around and check out. There is this one section of wall where there is what appears to be a drainage hole. It used to be an entrance way that had sunk into the ground. That entrance way was built on top of an old entranceway that had sunk into the ground. Now there is a new wall on top of it. I asked the tour guide if any of those walls had burned, fell over and THEN sank. He said "No. Why do you ask me this?"

/Stayed in Babylon for 2 weeks before heading to Victory Base near Baghdad

McManus_brothers		2012-05-17 12:54:45 PM

FTFA: But oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad...

So, this would be like an American guy named Joe Holy War? Weird.

loveblondieo		2012-05-17 12:54:58 PM

ThreeEdgedSword: loveblondieo: Don't worry. We just need to build Michelangelo's Chapel and Civilization will be fine.

I think the Pyramids would be more helpful. Better build those soon!

I always had to have them as well. I was thinking of the contentment factor.

cc_rider		2012-05-17 12:56:04 PM

`We're robbing the cradle of civilization. Link

busy chillin'		2012-05-17 12:56:14 PM

engine
....greed fueled stupidity of their time."

I like how this hints that future generations of humans won't have greedy people ruining it for the rest of them. It's cute.

DubyaHater		2012-05-17 12:56:54 PM

It sounds like they'll uncover the ruins when they lay the pipeline. What's wrong with that? Saves the archaeologists a lot of time and effort.

This text is now purple		2012-05-17 12:57:04 PM

engine: meh it'll just make the archaeological ruin in a few thousand years even more interesting: "And now students you can see that in or about the year 2000 people actually decimated untold treasures in search for what we now know was the cancer of the age: oil A tragic and longstanding reminder of the greed fueled stupidity of their time."

/The more things change the more they stay the same

Considering where oil comes from, all they're doing is displacing a much more modern destroyed garden in search of evidence of a truly ancient one.

fawlty		2012-05-17 12:57:18 PM

FTFA: As Baghdad is working to get UNESCO to list Babylon as a World Heritage Site

How is it that Babylon is not already be listed as a WHS? Blame Saddam?

hdhale		2012-05-17 12:59:52 PM

Assem Jihad defended the Babylon project...

www.b5tech.com

I should think on the fifth try they would finally get it right. Let's hope so.

netcentric		2012-05-17 01:00:27 PM

To be fair. People in the US would probably be upset if a pipeline ran too close to one of our treasured sites.

Like 'South of the Border' rest stop in South Carolina. The gem of the southern US.

bingo the psych-o		2012-05-17 01:01:14 PM

Rapmaster2000: a pipeline that one side insists threatens the site and could cause irreparable damage to the ruins.

Yo dawg, I heard you like ruins. So we put in a pipeline next to your ruins, so you can ruin your ruins while your ruins get ruined.

If they would quit building all these ruins it wouldn't be an issue.

elvisaintdead		2012-05-17 01:01:18 PM

Nightsweat: Bryan Ferry is gonna be pissed.

♬Bab-y-lonn♬♬♬

Rich Cream		2012-05-17 01:02:47 PM

Just a reminder that when you biatch about the Taliban and the Buddha statues think about what we did to Persia and their museums and other historical places while rushing to put troops around the oil wells during our efforts to spread freedom.

RibbyK		2012-05-17 01:06:06 PM

bingo the psych-o: Rapmaster2000: a pipeline that one side insists threatens the site and could cause irreparable damage to the ruins.
Yo dawg, I heard you like ruins. So we put in a pipeline next to your ruins, so you can ruin your ruins while your ruins get ruined.
If they would quit building all these ruins it wouldn't be an issue.

Yep, that's my original point. How do you damage something that's been ruined for hundreds of years? It's like stomping on raisins to make wine.

Odd Bird		2012-05-17 01:06:57 PM

Didn't a Concorde crash there?

_{/obscure nelson demille reference}

hdhale		2012-05-17 01:09:11 PM

netcentric: To be fair. People in the US would probably be upset if a pipeline ran too close to one of our treasured sites.

Like 'South of the Border' rest stop in South Carolina. The gem of the southern US.

Actually, may Civil War battle sites are threatened by strip malls, housing development projects, and other encroachments on a daily basis.

But this is nothing new...

Current Resident		2012-05-17 01:09:12 PM

^{Iraqi men walk towards the entrance ...}

And then what? AND THEN WHAT!?!

The suspense is killing me!

MrJesus		2012-05-17 01:10:55 PM

dittybopper		2012-05-17 01:12:15 PM

kbronsito: dittybopper: Hey, I approve of boning oiled whores.

The oiled whores of Babylon.

They've got wessonality.

/Personal fave is Minnie Mazola.

MrBonestripper		2012-05-17 01:13:26 PM

Screw that! I don't want oil rigs in my back yard!

/lives in Cincinnati
//It's near Switzerland

MrBonestripper		2012-05-17 01:15:46 PM

dittybopper: kbronsito: dittybopper: Hey, I approve of boning oiled whores.

The oiled whores of Babylon.

They've got wessonality.

/Personal fave is Minnie Mazola.

Hidey hidey hidy ho!

JerkStore		2012-05-17 01:16:39 PM

Surely this will help the oil companies' bottom line. Lord knows they need the help in these desperate times.

Seriously, though, .9 kilometers? They can't just route it around the ruins? It's not like the place is over-populated and fully developed and it's either go through Babylon or put it next to a day care center, and the cost is what, a day or two of oil profits?

dittybopper		2012-05-17 01:20:18 PM

MrBonestripper: dittybopper: kbronsito: dittybopper: Hey, I approve of boning oiled whores.

The oiled whores of Babylon.

They've got wessonality.

/Personal fave is Minnie Mazola.

Hidey hidey hidy ho!

Orange whip?

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