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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."
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
Suddenly I don't feel so bad about living in Missouri.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
... there go the blue states :(
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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.
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
We don't use "km" here, so that tsunami is just gonna have to go somewhere else with its commie agenda.
We'll give them some casinos, and they'll be perfectly happy, and all will be fair and just!