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"Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« on: June 12, 2011, 01:29:16 PM »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002491/Bill-Warren-launches-underwater-search-Osama-Bin-Ladens-body.html

Dollars to donuts the US Navy sewed his shroud with detcord and stuffed the body with C4, and rigged the system to a depth sensor to go off at 500 feet above the sea floor.  Little shreds of Bin Laden guts drifting slowly to the sea bed, getting snatched up by octopi and jellyfish until the last little bits of Bin Laden fish poop make it down to the shrimp and plankton underneath it all.

Ah, happy thoughts. =D
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2011, 02:41:02 PM »
 ???  Good grief.  The world has gone nutz.  Why would anyone want a decaying, dead corpse? 
Maybe that Woods Hole guy that discovered the Titanic could go out and .... nah, that guy would never do this; he has too much decency and common sense. 
The cooky ideas some people have just leave me shaking my head. 
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2011, 07:35:13 PM »
I still maintain that his head would've been a fine prize,  stuck on a trident at Coronado Island...

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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2011, 08:32:43 PM »
Why would anyone want a decaying, dead corpse? 

Because live corpses are worthless.
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2011, 08:51:47 PM »
I still maintain that his head would've been a fine prize,  stuck on a trident at Coronado Island...

Or they could have preserved it and kept it on display at the Smithsonian. On a pike, of course.
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2011, 08:52:01 PM »
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"Live corpses" is an oxymaroon.   [tinfoil] ;/

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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2011, 10:58:33 PM »
Or they could have preserved it and kept it on display at the Smithsonian. On a pike, of course.

Of course.  And maybe animate it with some clever hydraulics and a little speaker. 

Get him to do the Oscar Meyer wiener song or sing the praises of Jimmy Dean pork sausage.
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2011, 11:10:15 PM »
I still maintain that his head would've been a fine prize,  stuck on a trident at Coronado Island...

Going for the thread drift award, looking for google images gives me a lot of useless pictures of fish (pike), and this:



Which is cool.

And this: Osama's head on a pike for Sarah, which is an interesting title but not worth reading.
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2011, 11:15:35 PM »
Or they could have preserved it and kept it on display at the Smithsonian. On a pike, of course.

King Philip's head was displayed on a pike in Plymouth for 20 years...

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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2011, 12:09:56 AM »
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"Live corpses" is an oxymaroon.   [tinfoil] ;/

And "dead corpse" is a redundancy.
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2011, 12:17:47 AM »


And "dead corpse" is a redundancy.
True, that.  I never said I was perfect.   =D
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2011, 01:44:54 AM »
Take a look at the history of Christian relics.  There is money to be made.

Even if OBL's corpse is never recovered we may expect a brisk trade in relics.  We may also expect the deaths of frauds as high rollers do DNA comparisons to living relatives of OBL.

P.T. Barnum was right:  there's one born every minute.  Hell, even soggy pulled pork sandwiches and kosher hotdogs will command thousands of dollars.  =D
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2011, 10:12:58 PM »
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"Live corpses" is an oxymaroon.   [tinfoil] ;/

No, live corpses is zombies.

Sorry, couldn't let that one pass, especially since this thread has already careened into the ditch.   :laugh:
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2011, 10:23:55 PM »
Redundancy - "Raid kills bugs dead!"

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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2011, 10:31:58 PM »
Take a look at the history of Christian relics.  There is money to be made.

Even if OBL's corpse is never recovered we may expect a brisk trade in relics.  We may also expect the deaths of frauds as high rollers do DNA comparisons to living relatives of OBL.

A man who does that exposes himself to fatwas as a grave desecrator.
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2011, 10:14:23 AM »
A man who does that exposes himself to fatwas as a grave desecrator.
So if I dislike someone, I should use his name as an alias when I desecrate some ayatollah's grave?   >:D

As for the OP . . . finding a body dumped somewhere in the ocean that's been feeding fish for a while already? What a bunch of malarky. Unless he's incredibly stupid, he KNOWS the chances of finding ANY remains are less than winning the Mega Millions jackpot . . . the guy just wants his 15 minutes of fame.
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2011, 11:07:38 AM »
^^^ I wonder if the body could still be intact if the canvas shroud/bag was intact.  Or would the shroud be attacked by sea life attracted by odors or residual blood?  With all the WWII burials at sea, I wonder if any diver has ever found an intact shroud.
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2011, 11:20:20 AM »
^^^ I wonder if the body could still be intact if the canvas shroud/bag was intact.  Or would the shroud be attacked by sea life attracted by odors or residual blood?  With all the WWII burials at sea, I wonder if any diver has ever found an intact shroud.

Canvas shrouds would degrade, but something I noted during the burials at sea that we did on the Iwo for deceased veterans was that they were burried in ventilated metal caskets, sort of like the kind used to transport remains home from the sandbox, but weighted at the feet and with holes drilled in to allow the air to escape. Generally though we did those in deep enough water that even divers running on latest mixed gas or other deep diving systems wouldn't be able to go deep enough to find them.

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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2011, 12:33:13 PM »
This guy is going to get a cable channel to pony up some of the money to do a special on the "Hunt for Bin Laden's Body."  I wonder if Geraldo will host it?   ;/
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Re: "Treasure Hunters" want Bin Laden's body
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2011, 12:37:01 PM »
This guy is going to get a cable channel to pony up some of the money to do a special on the "Hunt for Bin Laden's Body."  I wonder if Geraldo will host it?   ;/ 
Maybe he'll hire the cable channel "ghost hunter" guys . . . or maybe the ones who go out looking for Sasquatch and sea monsters . . .  ;/
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