Michael Crichton's recent novel, "State of Fear", describes an attempt by environmental terrorists to initiate a tsunami
by underwater explosions off the coast of the Solomon Islands. Their motive was the production of a massive tsunami that would inundate California's Pacific coast and would demonstrate the effects of human initiated dramatic climate change.
In this case,unfortunately, reality has copied fiction.
the cheaper method would be taking Michael Moore up in a chopper and pushing him out over the ocean-same effect.
Hardly. Has anyone even suggested that the force released the other day was even nearly equivalent to that released in the explosion of Krackatoa, off the coast of Java, in the 1880s. I believe the tidal wave that crossed the Pacific was much higher, and debris was in the atmosphere for the next two years.
All that aside, I think folk here are fancifully looking at the wrong enemy. Obviously, the modern species of international anarchists--"terrorists"--do not have a prayer of developing the technology to try anything so ambitious. However, some sort of Hydrogen Bomb devise, from a more formidable enemy--say a Russo-Chinese alliance, with no exposure to an Atlantic based disaster--might someday be feasible.
Patriots need to understand that it is not necessary to over-dramatize the capability of our enemies to deal with them effectively. Over-dramatizing their capability and the extent of the threat only helps them recruit. The reality is that they are not capable of ever being the threat of a major technological power.
A better job of guarding our own borders and coast line would go a long way towards reducing the real threat that they do pose.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
Hardly. Has anyone even suggested that the force released the other day was even nearly equivalent to that released in the explosion of Krackatoa, off the coast of Java, in the 1880s. I believe the tidal wave that crossed the Pacific was much higher, and debris was in the atmosphere for the next two years.
All that aside, I think folk here are fancifully looking at the wrong enemy. Obviously, the modern species of international anarchists--"terrorists"--do not have a prayer of developing the technology to try anything so ambitious. However, some sort of Hydrogen Bomb devise, from a more formidable enemy--say a Russo-Chinese alliance, with no exposure to an Atlantic based disaster--might someday be feasible.
Patriots need to understand that it is not necessary to over-dramatize the capability of our enemies to deal with them effectively. Over-dramatizing their capability and the extent of the threat only helps them recruit. The reality is that they are not capable of ever being the threat of a major technological power.
A better job of guarding our own borders and coast line would go a long way towards reducing the real threat that they do pose.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site