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To: Mike Darancette
March 16, 2880... I think I'll call in sick that day so I can watch it all happen on TV.
2 posted on
05/29/2003 10:00:02 AM PDT by
So Cal Rocket
(Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
To: Mike Darancette
Massive tsunami sweeps Atlantic Coast in asteroid impact scenario for March 16, 2880 Oh man. That's the week I was planning on going to Daytona Beach.
3 posted on
05/29/2003 10:00:09 AM PDT by
ladtx
("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
To: Mike Darancette
Posted
here. First "women and minorities hit hardest" post was #19.
To: Mike Darancette
But this could happen sooner if Hilliary! goes swimming....
5 posted on
05/29/2003 10:00:56 AM PDT by
mewzilla
To: Mike Darancette
Tsunami Hits!
Minority Women, Children Hurt Most!
Global Warming, El Nino Worsen as result!!!
Bush II, Reagan Policies Faulted
6 posted on
05/29/2003 10:02:04 AM PDT by
theDentist
(So. This is Virginia.... where are all the virgins?)
To: Mike Darancette
Isn't a massive tsunami going to flood the east coast much earlier due to some island which is currently hanging by a thread and will soon drop into the sea? (I saw this on TV but do not remember any details other than we're all gonna DIE!)
To: Mike Darancette
A really good book (fiction of course) about a catastrophic impact is Lucifer's Hammer. Read it 5 or 6 times. It starts with telescope discovery and follows through to one year after impact.
To: Mike Darancette
Surf's up, dude!
To: Mike Darancette
To: Mike Darancette
If I have my world history straight, a small asteroid landed in the Sea of Japan in the late 1880s, sending waves crashing onto Japan (Wished it happened in the 1940s)
14 posted on
05/29/2003 10:09:33 AM PDT by
ServesURight
(FReecerely Yours,)
To: Mike Darancette
This is all covered spectacularly well in the first third of the Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle book
Lucifer's Hammer. They describe the effects of a comet striking the Earth, primarily a mid Pacific strike, but calved off pieces strike like Shoemaker-Levy 9 did on Jupiter. They have a very effective scene on a pre-strike talk show with two scientists trying to come up with analogies to get across the energies involved. They finally settle on a hot fudge sundae to represent the comet. A cubic mile of hot fudge sundae, moving at cometary speeds. Suffice to say that it is an impressive analogy, and fun to read.
They have one long scene with a surfer who figures out what's happened when the water start's to pull back from the shore off of Los Angeles. He quickly pushes out as far and as fast as he can, bascially out stripping nearly everyone else on the ocean. Finally he waits on the Tusnami and rides it in. Hundreds' of feet high and he's riding it in. His last, glorious ride. He actually begind to think he'll survive, even after riding it perhaps a half mile inland. Unfortunately there's this apartment building tower.... swat!
The rest of the book is "now what the hell do we do?" Not all politically correct, particlarly not 20 plus years later, but one of the great reads. Both Willis' Armageddon and Morgan Freeman's Deep Impact mention Lucifer's Hammer in passing, acknowledging their obvious debt to how well Niven and Pournelle did in covering and imagining the topic.
16 posted on
05/29/2003 10:13:33 AM PDT by
Phsstpok
To: Mike Darancette
Frightening thought!
To: Mike Darancette
My appointment book says that I will be on the West Coast on March 16, 2880.
But just I case I will bring a surf board.
19 posted on
05/29/2003 10:23:09 AM PDT by
ido_now
To: Mike Darancette
Large asteroids would be good targets for multiple thermonuclear devices. Prepare the targeting regimen, boys. We may have to go nuclear!
20 posted on
05/29/2003 10:26:26 AM PDT by
Uncle Miltie
(Wheat is Murder! (Tilling slaughters worms.....))
To: Mike Darancette
Of course by 2880 the entire earth's population and all the spotted owls will have been killed off by global warming/cooling and/or overpopulation and/or Repubican policies of the Bush/Reagan years and/or burning fossil fuels/using nuclear energy/driving SUV in the 21st century etc.
To: Mike Darancette
There was some wing-ding who was disappointed that a predicted impact in -- what? -- 2030 was retracted. See, the way she saw it, we could have a 30-year party. No more responsibility, no more investing, no more thinking of 'the children' (future generations). Just party down dudes.
--Boris
26 posted on
05/29/2003 12:45:40 PM PDT by
boris
(Education is always painful; pain is always educational)
To: Mike Darancette
And it will all be the Republicans fault. You see, by not signing the Kyoto accord, the resulting global warming both melted the polar ice caps vastly increasing the severity of any tsunami, and slowed down the orbit of the earth sufficiently, thereby assuring that it was in the path of the asteroid.
To: Mike Darancette
Woo Hoo!!! Lots of ocean front real estate dirt cheap!!!!
To: Mike Darancette
Kalifornia again.
One would think they would worry more about what Gray Davis and the Legislature is going to do to them within the next eight months, instead of what some asteroid might do eight centuries from now!
30 posted on
05/29/2003 1:09:24 PM PDT by
Gritty
31 posted on
12/30/2004 7:14:29 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
("The odds are very much against inclusion, and non-inclusion is unlikely to be meaningful." -seamole)
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