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Sweeping Civilization Away In A Single Wave
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Posted on 05/28/2003 5:36:53 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
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posted on
05/28/2003 8:23:50 PM PDT
by
blam
To: John H K
Oh, boy, I screwed up, then. But that means Washington, DC is a goner, too.
Maybe I need to get people on the Eastern Shore to plant really tall trees -- or build hills out of NJ trash.
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posted on
05/28/2003 8:30:10 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: RightWhale
"He showed, for example, that the collapse of an unstable volcanic slope in the Canary Islands could send a massive tsunami toward the U.S. East Coast."Saw this on the Discovery Channel, possible 700 foot wave to hit New York.
To: Domestic Church
Well, they say that the Chesapeake is really the estuary of the Susquehanna River, so maybe it will be Harrisburg and not York.
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posted on
05/28/2003 8:32:31 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: Paul C. Jesup; Riley
There was some show on about tsunamis. One hit Hawaii back in the 1960s. The weather service or NOAA sent a guy down to
watch it come in to a bay that quickly narrowed.
They found some of his notes, but he was watching from a bridge or the like. I can't remember what happened to the
spectacle viewers at the narrow end of the bay.
To: Calvin Locke
Some folks in Crescent City got killed doing that, too.
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posted on
05/28/2003 10:34:03 PM PDT
by
Riley
To: Chairman Fred
"Lucifer's Hammer" by Niven and Pournelle. Read. Tried to read that. Just about the only SF book I couln't get through. I had previously read N&P's "Footfall". Same plot, similar characters, except it's more interesting because aliens dropped the asteroid on purpose, and Earth must be avenged.
Did get up to the part where the surfer rides the big wave into the side of a skyscraper, however. And I believe some people would try it.
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posted on
05/29/2003 10:59:29 AM PDT
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MalcolmS
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To: 75thOVI; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; Brujo; CGVet58; Chani; ..
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01/01/2007 8:50:03 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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Just updating the ping list info, not sending a general distribution.
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08/10/2011 7:57:47 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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