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Egypt is Palestine's 'strategic depth': PA spokesman

2014-07-12

[Al Ahram] Paleostinian Authority front man Ehab Bseiso told MENA agency on Friday that Paleostinians appreciate Egypt's support for them and their cause, and that Egypt is Paleostine's "strategic depth", a reference to the history of Egypt's support for the Paleostinian cause.

But the border crossing remains closed to commerce and the general population, while Hamas's tunnels are still interdicted, yes? Heckuva shallow depth ya got there, buddy.

Bseiso also reiterated the PA's demand that Egypt open the Rafah border crossing,

See?

and said that the demand was based on the right of movement of Paleostinians, and also on Egypt's national security needs.

Really, Egypt will be so much more secure when the missiles move freely from Gaza to the salafists in the Sinai.

The Gazoo Strip has been bombarded by Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrikes for the last four days, leaving at least 100 Paleostinians dead. The crossing with Egypt at Rafah has been frequently closed over the last year, and Egyptian security forces have demolished cross-border tunnels, citing security concerns in the Sinai Peninsula where Islamist holy warriors are active.

Posted by:Fred

#3 3dc -- nice calculations, but you need a friction coefficient, and a calculation for base spread (where the water behind the dam spreads beyond the banks of the river downstream. As the width of the flow increases, the speed decreases). The damage is still huge, and millions will be buried five feet or more in mud. I'm sure Egypt could recover in a couple of hundred years...

Posted by: Old Patriot 2014-07-12 19:18

#2 Heh.™

Posted by: Barbara 2014-07-12 13:27

#1 Never forget how fragile Egypt is.

Aswan_plus_sealevel_calc_mass_energy.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "calculate energy in Aswan Dam\n";
#
#assumptions: force of gravity at sea level.
# 132 cubic km of water behind the dam viewed as
# a flat rectanglular solid 111 meters above the dam base
# altitude of dam base is 85 meters above sea level.
#
$g = 9.0665;
$total_mass = 132000000000.0;
$total_drop = 111.0;
$drop_increments = 11100.0;
$drop_count_max = 11100;
$dam_base_altitude = 85.0;
$drop_mass = $total_mass / $drop_increments;
$drop_height_increment = $total_drop / $drop_increments;
$height = 0.0;
$total_energy = 0.0;
for ($drop_count = 0; ($drop_count < $drop_count_max); $drop_count++) {
$height = $height + $drop_height_increment;
$slice_height = $height + $dam_base_altitude;
$drop_energy = $slice_height * $drop_mass * $g;
$total_energy = $total_energy + $drop_energy;
}
print "meters of dam height ",$height,
" Joules of potential energy at the sea: slice ", $drop_energy,
" total ", $total_energy, "\n";

Posted by: 3dc 2014-07-12 12:06

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