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This post has been edited by Saint_Michael: Nov 16 2005, 04:06 AM

I'd say the weather. Hurricane after hurricane after hurrican, and now the tornadoes. The earthquake is a close second. MAn, whta's the world coming to?

Yeah i would have to Tsunami 2004 then the hurricanes being the big ones and what ever filters in from there.

I'm with ZeroHawk on this one, except I'd have to call it the news story of the last century when the rapid growth of population and exponential growth of Hydro-carbon consumption spews so many tonnes of waste in to the atmosphere. I believe that is what is causing a bunch of our recent weather phenomenon.
True, the Earth has seen hot and cold periods in the past, but it usually takes thousands of years to adjust from warm to cold climates. And the regular or normal fluctuations are "natural". The impact that Man has had on the environment in the last 100 years is a "man-made" influence and is un-natural. The Atmosphere and Climate activities are extremely delecate eco-systems and are bound to show some effects.

Unfortunately, the effects are as harmful to man as they are.

I voted for the live 8 concert even though I new nothing about it because I wanted to vote for something positive and the option “other” sounded too vague. If I was going to vote for something positive politically, I think the Israeli withdrawal form Gazza is pretty big. It gives me some hope no matter how small that there might some day be peace in that region. There have been a lot of breakthroughs in nano technology this year. The resulting new materials could revolutions just about everything around us especially those materials made by carbon nano tubes.

I also consider any story related to the VSE (vision for space exploration) to be quite postitive. I remember when I was younger congress would stop any research that had to do with mars. I think the most tragic loss was the termination of trans hap. Transhap was an inflatable space station module which was considerably bigger and lighter then the other modules. Because this would make it easier to go to mars congress terminated because of a dislike of any technology that could be use for future mars exploration.

Since the announcement of the VSE there has been a much wider political support of the goals of NASA both in congress and advocacy groups in aerospace and space exploration. NASA is no longer condemned to circle in orbit in a vehicle that is far too complex to maintain to prop up a space station which is a bad return on the investment in terms of dollars per science. Finally NASA is given the authority to actually do things in the manned space program again in an affordable and sustainable fashion.

It probably depends on where you live, and what's most important to you in your life. I live a few hundred miles from the hurricanes, and a lot of the evacuees are still in the area, so a lot of the news and focus around here is on the hurricanes.

I have issues with the word used. You wouldn’t call a mobster important so why would you call a natural disaster important? Maybe it just shows the repressed optimist in me.

Personally, I didn't really mean that anything was more important than something else. That word was in the title of the thread. "What news story affected your life the most in 2005?" might have been more correct? Maybe that's wrong too.

Other: "There are no WMDs in Iraq ... and there never have been any." by George W. Bush, the very man who started a war about this [and other reasons just as wrong]