Of course it was! Remeber the "classic" theories that all of the slaves / peasants / laborers had to work building pyramids while the Nile was in flood? The timing is perfect. Now to unify the theories. The Egyptians had sails? Maybe. But the TV special referred to above showed heiroglyphs in which the obelisks were rolled into boats. The boats went downriver. Who knows how high the flood waters went? Could they have been diverted to make temporary canals? Certainly. Good thought.
If Hiroshima was 6-8 Megatons and Tunguska was 15-40 Megatons (a really wide range, mind you) then we should truly fear the "aging" soviet arsenal of "city-busters" reputedly in the 100 Megaton range.
For comparison, charts I've seen of England show zones of absolute destruction from a 10 Megaton burst in the narrow "neck" of the island wiping out most of the island. 100 Megatons... well, it's a wash exactly how bad the damage is. Some scientists fear that city-busters are so huge they might actually affect the tectonic plates of the earth's crust. That's why I loved the U.S. military approach claiming that the U.S. maintained a "strategic" advantage because the Soviet missiles were "less accurate" than ours. Ha! One thing which a city buster does not require is micrometric precision in targeting.
Modern MIRVS (Multiple Independently-targeted re-entry vehicles) reduce the yield of the individual warheads down to about 600-800 kilotons each, but such missiles are limited to 10 warheads per ICBM under the SALT treaty (there's a 12-warhead capacity on the U.S. Minuteman missile - but we don't install those last two. Really. We are prepared to launch off-balance missiles...)
SO really, if you want to compare modern missiles with the crude devices lofted at the end of the Second World War, you would see that modern ICBMs can hurl about a dozen warheads, each large enough to utterly destroy a few square miles without leaving a single crater deep enough that it becomes a lake. Isn't progress wonderful?
If you are checking with licensed local counsel regarding your options, be sure to inquire about an involuntary bankruptcy case. That's right. Under 11 U.S.C. 303 there are certain situations in which creditors have the right to place a business into either Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 against its will. Now one of those requirements is that you have three or more entities meeting certain criteria (303(b)(1)). As you have described the situation, you and the other affiliates seem to be at least three different creditors, all of whom have substantial debts. The details, pros and cons should be discussed at length with your counsel, i.e. pro: a United States Trustee will administer assets and pay debts. Con: the debts may be paid pennies on the dollar if at all, depending on assets. Nevertheless, the bare possibility of an involuntary bankruptcy may alter the bargaining positions of the company. They may decide that they can be a tad more generous even if it is only so they can squirrel away more assets before they finally collapse.
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Of course it was! Remeber the "classic" theories that all of the slaves / peasants / laborers had to work building pyramids while the Nile was in flood? The timing is perfect. Now to unify the theories. The Egyptians had sails? Maybe. But the TV special referred to above showed heiroglyphs in which the obelisks were rolled into boats. The boats went downriver. Who knows how high the flood waters went? Could they have been diverted to make temporary canals? Certainly. Good thought.
If Hiroshima was 6-8 Megatons and Tunguska was 15-40 Megatons (a really wide range, mind you) then we should truly fear the "aging" soviet arsenal of "city-busters" reputedly in the 100 Megaton range. For comparison, charts I've seen of England show zones of absolute destruction from a 10 Megaton burst in the narrow "neck" of the island wiping out most of the island. 100 Megatons... well, it's a wash exactly how bad the damage is. Some scientists fear that city-busters are so huge they might actually affect the tectonic plates of the earth's crust. That's why I loved the U.S. military approach claiming that the U.S. maintained a "strategic" advantage because the Soviet missiles were "less accurate" than ours. Ha! One thing which a city buster does not require is micrometric precision in targeting. Modern MIRVS (Multiple Independently-targeted re-entry vehicles) reduce the yield of the individual warheads down to about 600-800 kilotons each, but such missiles are limited to 10 warheads per ICBM under the SALT treaty (there's a 12-warhead capacity on the U.S. Minuteman missile - but we don't install those last two. Really. We are prepared to launch off-balance missiles...) SO really, if you want to compare modern missiles with the crude devices lofted at the end of the Second World War, you would see that modern ICBMs can hurl about a dozen warheads, each large enough to utterly destroy a few square miles without leaving a single crater deep enough that it becomes a lake. Isn't progress wonderful?
If you are checking with licensed local counsel regarding your options, be sure to inquire about an involuntary bankruptcy case. That's right. Under 11 U.S.C. 303 there are certain situations in which creditors have the right to place a business into either Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 against its will. Now one of those requirements is that you have three or more entities meeting certain criteria (303(b)(1)). As you have described the situation, you and the other affiliates seem to be at least three different creditors, all of whom have substantial debts. The details, pros and cons should be discussed at length with your counsel, i.e. pro: a United States Trustee will administer assets and pay debts. Con: the debts may be paid pennies on the dollar if at all, depending on assets. Nevertheless, the bare possibility of an involuntary bankruptcy may alter the bargaining positions of the company. They may decide that they can be a tad more generous even if it is only so they can squirrel away more assets before they finally collapse.