Posted on 08/09/2004 8:34:11 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
Leaving should be living but maybe leaving in the outcome head to daughters in Roxboro.
If you got enough observers, the same should happen here.
No nukes! Save the world for conventional weapons!
You forgot the elderly.
"After travelling across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic for about nine hours the tsunami would hit the Caribbean islands and the east coasts of Canada and the US with devastating effect. It would stretch for many miles and sweep into the estuaries and harbours for up to 20 miles inland, destroying everything in its path."
Obviously this is Bush's October suprise... Drown the Blue States
Why not use conventional weapons (a few 'Big Bertha' JDAMS might be the ticket) in the same fashion that several small avalanches are triggered in snow country to prevent one massive avalanche.
What I fantasize about is putting a nuclear weapon inside a hurricane. Would it disrupt it, or would the added heat/energy power the cyclone (these things are heat engines, and the rising air in the eye is what causes the low pressure.
Oh, yeah. Thanks for the assist. I also forgot the chilllllllldrun.
Not much time. We need to keep a close eye on it.
"It'd be a damn shame if that half a trillion tons had the help of the first Islamic nuclear weapon to get it started."
With any luck, they would start the wave going in the wrong direction, almost like in Monty Python skit.
Well, Krakatoa did cause a tsunami that killed many people, but its deadly effects were still limited to within a fairly small area around it.
I have a hard time believing that an explosion/landslide off the coast of Africa could cause a tsunami to travel all the way across the Atlantic ocean.
Remember that we are talking thousands of miles travelled here and that such a wave front would spread out to devastate the entire east cost of the New World. The energy required for that would just be, IMO, impossible to create with a simple landslide.
Yeah right arm...save the MOABs for the San Andreas Fault!
Oohh cool idea. Did you ever think about what would happen if you torched off a Hindenburg inside of a tornado? That's the question I need answered!
Scientists have discovered that La Palma will collapse at the time of some future volcanic eruption on the summit of the Cumbre Vieja volcano. Eruptions on the summit occur on average every 200 years or so. The last summit eruption was in 1949, so it may be many decades before the next summit eruption takes place.
Furthermore, the collapse will not necessarily happen during the next summit eruption. It may well take five, ten or more summit eruptions before the collapse occurs. But scientists simply do not know how many eruptions it will take.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami_qanda.shtml
Yes.
No, I meant not much time to get people inland :')
No, but a small consolation would be that those Eastern coastal cities are by and large Blue Zonees.
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