[blam]

I wonder of this article was prompted by the kooky Frenchman who predicts a comet impact on 5-25-2006?

[blam]

Catastrophism ping.

[Heyworth]

In the Niven/Pournelle book "Lucifer's Hammer" from the 1970s they talk about this. If it hits land, it's pretty much tough luck for anyone under it. If it hits water, it's very bad globally. Besides the tsunami, it would also instantly vaporize a huge volume of water into the atmosphere.

[kinoxi]

if a small planetoid hits the earth i don't think waves would be our biggest problem

[RightWhale]

The solar system's population of 100 m to 400 m asteroids is poorly known, as are coastal population distributions

The first is fairly well known. The second is well known. The Gulf of Mexico is suspiciously round for a large feature.

[sandbar]

What kind of English format is this title? Does it not make sense to anyone else?

[bwteim]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619315/posts

"He [Eric Julien, a former French military air traffic controller and senior airport manager] concludes the May 25 event is tied in to the Bush administration's policy of preemptive use of nuclear weapons against Iran, and the effect of nuclear weapons on the realms of higher intelligences."

I cannot say it, but as you see, it is ___'s fault.

[Fighting Irish]

[timer]

A buoyant flood road, piano hinged on land side, dead man anchored on sea side; that naturally swings up into a vertical seawall, would at least mitigate some of the wave damage. Do you have a better solution?

[onedoug]

The wave aspect of everything.

[SunkenCiv]

[Hammerhead]

Since the bird flu bs isn't taking hold, I guess the mass media is gonna try and wip up asteroid hysteria (again).

[Renegade]

Looks like New Orleans gets smacked by God ! Will FEMA come to the rescue . Can you surf in a school bus ??

[FlingWingFlyer]

To paraphrase another Freeper's post a few months back, People who study oceans don't live near them.

[TheLion]

Time is not on our side here....it will eventually happen.

[devane617]

This is one of those situations that nobody believes until it happens. I have no basis for my guess, but major, catastrophic disaster is probable.

[pepperdog]

Oh my goodness, would you look at that map...NO is doomed again! .

[ThomasThomas]

I saw the Simpson's episode on this. No Problem just stay out of bomb shelters. And I still got my manual can opener which was my y2k kit, I'm ready.

[SunkenCiv]

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