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The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami
rbrander writes "It's not news at all that scientists predict an eventual "mega-tsunami" that will sweep across the Atlantic that will still be anything from 60 to 150 ft high when it hits the U.S. Eastern seaboard. This Old News, however, suddenly seems fresh. Like an asteroid hit, it could be millenia away, or tomorrow, that a volcano in the Canary Islands just off Africa drops half a trillion tons of rock into the Atlantic.
A short description of the problem from BBC News and some more graphic descriptions (of up to 100 million dead) and shrewd commentary on the politics of warning from journalist Gwynne Dyer."
... and here I just bought a bungalow on the Jersey shore.
i live in ri.. the OCEAN state im screwed
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...to someplace like Kansas City.
On second thought, they can stay in Washington D.C.
Florida will protect my home in Texas...
> Natural Disasters... they can happen at any time, in any place, and most of the time there is no warning.
I always turn off the natural disasters when I play. I hate spending all that time building the city only to have Godzilla come crashing through
Whats worse, living in fear of 150 foot waves or having to live in Oklahoma.
No WE is not ready.
The Tools Of Ignorance wanna be a tool?
... there go the blue states :(
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shhh you're gonna ruin next week's story!
Doomed! The megatsunami will hit us in a thousand years and we are doomed. DOOMED!!
Because a disaster can happen at any time, I never wear a seatbelt or install smoke alarms plus I make sure to always wear loose clothing near my tablesaw and run with scissors.
Well, let's hope you're right in the middle of the next disaster, then. I'm sure that would be a GOOD thing.
Ocean front property in North carolina. From my front porch you can see the sea...oh hell... is that what I think it is?
I wanna watch the insurance agents sweat, shake and cry to the feds that they can't pay all the claims that they've underwritten when the mega-tsunami hits. They love taking money, but hell has to freeze over before they'll part with it!
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But that is OK because that is where the repbulicans live.
Right?
I say, as soon as the alert warning goes off, we set off tactical nukes across the entire coastline and kill ourselves because, hey, f' you mother nature.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
Poppycock. This topic hits close to home for me, because I myself happen to be a major international terrorist. You may remember me from such atrocities as the Chicago Fire, Mount Saint Helens, and Sinbad's movie career.
The simple fact is, at the end of the day we're slaves to ratings just like everybody else. I recently had to shelve several plans after they focus-grouped poorly, including infecting the world's dolphin population with AIDS to depress imperialist American schoolchildren, and mixing a healthy dose of Nair into the global shampoo supply stream.
That last one cost me a lot of money - my operatives had already commandeered a Vidal Sassoon supertanker in the Far East when I got the word from Saatchi & Saatchi that the operation was a lead balloon with hairline-conscious 18-35s in Jeddah's bellwether south side.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
The natives call the enterprise to drill into the planet's surface with the ships phasers to release the planet's tectonic pressure but as a result a cloud of volcanic ash covers the planet.
All the while some cooky guy in circa 1960's hemp clothing, who says he's from the future, keeps stealing tricorders.
We don't use "km" here, so that tsunami is just gonna have to go somewhere else with its commie agenda.
Anyone care to place a wager on the plot of the next crappy disaster flick?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The roads will stay plenty clear as long as we all agree not to tell New Jersey. Those guys can't pump their own gas. Do we *really* want them hanging around after a Tsunami?
We'll give them some casinos, and they'll be perfectly happy, and all will be fair and just!
The last Mt St. Helens eruption was just a teaser. Look to Mt. St. helens going bang like the volcano that Crater Lake used to be, before it exploded and threw debris as far as Montana, removing a mohn tain at least as large as Mt. St. Helens used to be, and a hole in the ground which is now the deepest lake in the US. Remember that Mt. St. Helens is just one in a chan of volcanos, and that they are all active and just waiting to go bang one day. Back to the East coast and a monster Tsunami - remember it would run over the huge Methane Hydrate deposits off the East coast, possibly causing a catestrophic release of the Methane and its associated hundreds of billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere - running a few miles inland is not going to save anyone from the effects of that. Nowhere in the US is really safe - why do you think the Brits let you have it so easily :-)
Too late though.
Huh? looks like whoever was doing the simulation was too early