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Last edited Wed Oct 7, 2015, 03:42 PM - Edit history (1)
On Edit: To avoid the obvious embarrassment suffered by posters # 4 & 5 below,
anyone even remotely tempted to post a reply should:
READ THE FRIGGIN ARTICLE !
thank you
Most of the plaster casts we have of Pompeii victims show them basically just lying down and whatnot, he said. If I had been in Pompeii and I heard Mt. Vesuvius erupting, you can bet I would have made a run for it.
He said another option open to residents of Pompeii would have been to fight the volcano.
Archeologists estimate that the population of Pompeii was about eleven thousand, he said. You cant tell me that if eleven thousand people put their minds to it they couldnt beat one volcano.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ben-carson-pompeii-victims-should-have-outrun-lava
gateley
(62,683 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)They could have shot the volcano and saved the town.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...that they should have swam harder.
Victims of Sandy? They should have ducked or purchased homes in the midwest, away from the ocean.
Everyone who has been laid off from a manufacturing job that was shipped to China? They should have majored in graphic design!
Prism
(5,815 posts)Eesh. It's not brain surgery.
Edit: Whoops, should've read the article. I've just gotten too used to the idea that this man is some kind of idiot savant.
SarasotaDem
(217 posts)Can he Really be that stupid ?
[link:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101102/pompeii-mount-vesuvius-science-died-instantly-heat-bodies/|
EDIT .... Should have read it as well
MisterP
(23,730 posts)MH1
(17,600 posts)Sheesh, that's almost like saying "it's from the Onion"