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pingoutoday at 2:44 PM3 repliesview on HN

"With a bomb dropped once every 62 minutes, the equivalent of three football fields of reef are destroyed each year, according to Williams."

That doesn't sound right.


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ryandraketoday at 3:25 PM

I love the American measurement units. How many bald eagles of explosives are needed to destroy three football fields worth of reef?

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cannonprtoday at 3:01 PM

You’d be surprised how vulnerable aquatic organisms are, and how far energy travels in water after an explosion…

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deadbunnytoday at 2:47 PM

I'd assume the deployment isn't always over reefs?