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Millions in U.S. Face Mega-Wave from Island Collapse (don't worry about meteors)
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| Mon 9 August, 2004 14:33
| Scientist Bill McGuire, Jeremy Lovell
Posted on 08/09/2004 10:27:49 AM PDT by Truth666
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To: wideawake
"I don't see how it would propagate a 300 foot tall wave 3000 miles away."
Water is a transmission medium, you create a disturbance at one end and it is propagated for long distances. The rising shoreline at the other end causes the wave to rise. A normal earthquake tsunami is typcially limited to 30 feet or so due to the nature of the event that causes it. Landslide tsunamis are altogether different as to their consequences.
To: George Smiley
Wrong!
New York Times headline:
Glub, glub, glub...
;-)
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08/09/2004 1:51:43 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(The Great Experiment is over and the Constitution is dead.)
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To: Truth666
Saw a show about the exact same thing except it was the north end of the big island in Hawaii...gonna kill us all on the western seaboard...run run we're all gonna die
aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
To: ßuddaßudd
Check out the size of these debris fields, and the northeast direction they slipped.
![Nuuanu map](http://www.mbari.org/volcanism/images/landslideMap.jpg)
Debris from enormous landslides off Oahu and Molokai extends hundreds of kilometers
Map © 2001 MBARI
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posted on
08/09/2004 2:14:01 PM PDT
by
Slicksadick
(He's French. His hairdresser also grooms poodles. He's a rich woman's pet. That cover's it)
To: Slicksadick
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posted on
08/09/2004 2:19:05 PM PDT
by
Slicksadick
(He's French. His hairdresser also grooms poodles. He's a rich woman's pet. That cover's it)
To: Truth666
Bad policy to write articles while high on acid.
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posted on
08/09/2004 2:58:52 PM PDT
by
Iberian
To: Slicksadick
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posted on
08/09/2004 3:06:12 PM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways)
To: skeeter
Thank you for clarifying that for me.
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posted on
08/09/2004 3:07:48 PM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways)
To: All
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posted on
08/09/2004 4:39:33 PM PDT
by
Truth666
To: Truth666
TIMING FOR THIS STORY - BREAKING
After a time of 'silence', discoveries of so-called 'minor planets' came in a hurry today - astronomers detected at least 10 new objects in the last 24 hours.
These discoveries are being reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC) and being published on the so-called NEO confirmation page.
Now have look on today's discoveries:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/NEO/ToConfirm.html
Object AO89913 is very interesting, scroll back the ephemeridis by 67 hours and you will see a dramatic drop in "V" which describes brightness and a decreasing value in 'V' means increasing brightening. Further there was a huge increase in "motion" which describes sky-mechanical size of the object. The MPC signed the trajectory at that point (08/07/04) with "***" which means the object will come close as 0.0027 AU or 1 Lunar distance in the following 100 hours.
There's still a great deal of uncertainty with this prelimanary trajectory but the object might have come extremely close in the last 72 hours or will do so in the next 24 hours.
Beyond this object there are others which are also supposed to come 'close' especially AO86297 because its trajectory has been confirmed and a MPEC bulletin with more information will be posted soon but at this stage I can tell you it's also going to be a 'near miss', 5 to 10 lunar distances is a first estimate.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/NEO/ToConfirm.html
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posted on
08/10/2004 3:02:30 AM PDT
by
Truth666
To: RightWhale
what are you talking about?
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posted on
08/10/2004 10:19:28 AM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
To: George Smiley
There would not be a NY, much less a NYT if this happens.
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08/10/2004 10:22:06 AM PDT
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rwfromkansas
(BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
To: rwfromkansas
You may have missed that sci-fi classic. Had a painting of the moon on the cover, kind of like a melon at the instant of being struck by a 30 cal rifle bullet.
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08/10/2004 10:28:52 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: bondjamesbond
Surely, it is all GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT!I agree. The Army Corps of Engineers should be building a massive seawall the entire length of the East Coast to protect us from this disaster. The left-wing enviro-whackos won't like it, but we're in desperate need for Homeland Security to defend our coastlines!
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posted on
08/10/2004 10:42:59 AM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Go Alan Go!!!)
To: Truth666
Millions in U.S. Face Mega-Wave from Island Collapse ...Children, Minorities Hardest Hit.
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posted on
08/10/2004 3:09:50 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(KHAAAAAAAANNNN!!! KHAAAAAAAANNNN!!!)
Note: this topic was posted 8/9/2004. Thanks Truth666.
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posted on
02/11/2014 5:42:06 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
Note: this topic is from 08/09/2004. Thanks Truth666.
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posted on
01/10/2016 3:13:48 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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