Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV 257
Kittenman writes "Slate is carrying some details of how eccentric treasure hunter Bill Warren is proposing looking for the body of Osama Bin Laden in the Arabian sea. He plans on using sonar, and a remotely operated submersible. If he finds the remains, he'll photograph them to confirm Bin Laden's death to the world. Warren says, 'There is still a $25 million reward that no one has collected, and the reward says dead or alive, well, if -- in fact -- he is dead, then I could collect the $25 million reward. Why not?'"
Well, it only took them 75 years to find Titanic (Score:5, Insightful)
Good luck finding a target slightly smaller, that the fish have been chewing on.
Why not? (Score:5, Insightful)
'There is still a $25 million reward that no one has collected, and the reward says dead or alive, well, if -- in fact -- he is dead, then I could collect the $25 million reward. Why not?'
"Why not?" is that the reward is given at the discretion of the US government, and they're not going to give it to you.
Re:Shouldn't he be looking elsewhere? (Score:1, Insightful)
Like a cell deep in Guantanamo or the like?
I'm just saying what everybody else is thinking...
No you're not. What I'm thinking is... he either A) died years ago, yet the US kept parading those videos because they needed that big villain image to justify [insert every national "security" policy since 9/11] or B) he's nowhere near the bottom of that ocean, dead or alive. But hey, go ahead and try it, I'm sure that 25 million reward is still on offer!
Re:Well, it only took them 75 years to find Titani (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, it only took them 75 years to find the Titanic.
No, the majority of the time was waiting for the technology to catch up so they could verify where it sank. They always knew the general location of where it was from the last coordinates sent from the Titanic as well as the rescue ships documenting where they picked up the passengers. The 75 year wait was waiting for correct technology to be developed so they could send something down 2 miles to say, "yep there it is".
Re:Sorry Charly! (Score:4, Insightful)
Logic tells us that there's no way that the U.S. government would announce bin Laden's death without being 100% sure that he was dead, because it would be too easy for bin Laden to release a video reading the headlines from today's newspaper.
Maybe they know he died a year ago from kidney failure and the U.S. government wants to take credit, but you can bet that bin Laden is dead right now.
Re:U.S. Government Already Said NO BOUNTY FOR YOU (Score:5, Insightful)