Project Orion

[LabR@t]

http://www.orion2010.co.uk/


http://www.hertsdirect.org/orionday1


http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/198567/Earthquake-training-for-police

POLICE have been sent on a training course to prepare for a massive earthquake, it emerged last night.


The three-day exercise, involving hundreds of staff from four forces, cost almost £1million.

Colossal waste of money or useful £1m spent on earthquake training.

Or is there something they are not telling us about, like we might be expecting some kind of large quake.

The biggest quake ever to hit the UK – at Dogger Bank in 1931 – measured just 6.1 and caused only one fatality, a woman in Hull who had a heart attack.


In addition to the English participants, organisations from Germany, Denmark and Eire have agreed to participate and will be involved alongside English participants in the planning for this UK based EU co-financed exercise. In addition, observers will be invited from 30 participating states.

 

[Sawell]

I keep hitting F5, even tried ctrl + F5 but I still seem to have the 1995 version of their website cached.

 

[Azza]

You know there was an Earthquake in Abergavenny today!!

 

[sanaxe1]

I think it is worth it as if a earthquake did happen everyone would be up in arms about how no one has had any training for such a situation.

 

[Azza]

Are all forces across the UK going to be taking part in this?

 

[Sp00n]

That website "design" is hugely offensive, I'm actually embarrassed for whomever made it.

 

[Maacck]

Earthquake training? Police need some actual Police training.

 

[LordSplodge]

So not the Project Orion then? The one that uses nukes (or conventional explosives in small scale) exploded under a pusher plate to launch huge rockets?

Instead it's some idiotic waste of public money. No surprise there...

 

[Tefal]

I don't know why but i keep picturing someone running up to police officers and shaking them while yelling "Earthquake!!!!!" as the walk around.

 

[Tefal]

So not the Project Orion then? The one that uses nukes (or conventional explosives in small scale) under a pusher plate to launch huge rockets?

Instead it's some idiotic waste of public money. No surprise there...

Or the current Orion which is an updated Apollo style program.

 

[LabR@t]

I don't know why but i keep picturing someone running up to police officers and shaking them while yelling "Earthquake!!!!!" as the walk around.

LOL

 

[Fenris]

It's additional training for "High impact events", not just earthquake, it also seems to be about ensuring that if different EU nations need to work together in the event of some catastrophe, they are all working to the same standard.

Makes sense to me.

 

[aardvark]

lol - idiots - someone should be sacked for that.

 

[Dave M]

lol - idiots - someone should be sacked for that.

The website?

 

[Sawell]

The website?

Definitely.

 

[Cosimo]

In Merseyside the exercise involved creating a street with burning buildings, trapped victims and 40 smashed cars.

Nothing new there then.

 

[LabR@t]

lol - idiots - someone should be sacked for that.

westerhope computer solutions ?

 

[Morgoth]

So much could have been done with that money. It could have been given to the NHS for more porn.

 

[i-bert]

They would have said it was for an Asteroid but it would have caused too much panic.

 

[Tefal]

So much could have been done with that money. It could have been given to the NHS for more porn.

but it's EU money they wouldn't give it to the nhs