Good News and Bad News

[Ahautenites]

The good news is, we probably won't be wiped out by an asteroid anytime soon.

The bad news is.... well, see for yourself: The Bad News (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4DQJBJWBUFM3UCRBAE0CFFA?type=scienceNews&storyID=5912118)

[Ahautenites]

If you were President when/if that were to happen, what would you do? Would you evacuate people or just let them drown and move yourself and your Cabinet to NORAD? (Or Nebraska, if you believe that John Titor guy.)

[Sleet]

* starts waxing his surfboard *

- Hang 10 Sleet

[WinterTree]

Of course I would evacuate them! What are they thinking? :geez:

[Fideal]

I'm so moving.

[Sleet]

If you were President when/if that were to happen, what would you do? Would you evacuate people or just let them drown and move yourself and your Cabinet to NORAD? (Or Nebraska, if you believe that John Titor guy.)

What could you do? You can't evacuate that number of people in ten hours. More would probably be killed in the panic than by the wave.

[Terestai]

Oh no!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!

In the next few thousand years... maybe... :lol:

[Ahautenites]

**grins** You can afford to joke, Terestai. I don't think the water will hit Colorado. But if there were some kind of nuclear explosion that set off a chain of earthquakes of large enough magnitude, it could send that volcano sliding, thereby causing even MORE devastation than just earthquakes and radiation poisoning.

Anyone remember Deep Impact? There was the reporter woman standing next to her father, and this massive wall of water (probably the size of the ones described in this story) just smacks into the East Coast and wipes out everyone and everything.

There'd be no escaping it. I wouldn't even try to.

[Ahautenites]

On the other hand, if there were that many earthquakes, it might make California sink, too, and that would surely cause a catastrophic tsunami that would wipe out all of the Pacific rim and probably all of China.

[Sleet]

I don't think this is something to lose sleep over, NS. Nuclear explosions setting off earthquakes is largely the realm of science fiction, and the size of the wave in Deep Impact is not what they're talking about in that article.

Tsunamis can be devastating, but they're typically not the type of thing that wipes out entire countries. Japan's been dealing with tsunamis for millenia, and they're still there.

[Xentor]

Oh, do come live in my country. We're 20 yards below sea level in most places. It only takes one dike-break.

[Terestai]

Oh, I joke now... but I may not be living here in Colorado in a few thousand years! :rollingla

Yes, I seem to have woken up on the insane side of the bed this morning. It's what happens when Mexican painters nearly break through your third-story bedroom window with their ladder at 7:30 AM. :G

[Sleet]

Oh, I joke now... but I may not be living here in Colorado in a few thousand years! :rollingla

If the Yellowstone Caldera goes, everyone west of the Mississippi is in for a really bad day. ;)

[Ahautenites]

Oh, hell no. I'm not going to lose sleep. If anything, I'd be on the side trying to make it happen out of sheer boredom.

[jelly.belly]

:blech: We are so all going to die... :uhhuhuh: I'm telling you, next thing, the Earth is going to explode which wouldn't suprise me right now...

But look at it on the bright side, at least, afterwards, when everyone and everything will be wiped out, at least the Earth is going to be able to regenerate itself after a few thousand years... :2G: And when this happens, we'll probably have flying car or flying cities or something that will save us... I dunno :2G: :D Mars seems like a nice planet right now doesnt it? ;)

[soilsigh aingeal]

I'm moving too!

[Sleet]

Mars seems like a nice planet right now doesnt it? ;)

I can get you an excellent interest rate on some prime land right on the Vastitas Borealis.

Send me a check and I'll get right on it. ;)

[Ahautenites]

Nah. Go here instead: www.marsshop.com or www.lunarembassy.com

All others are frauds. (Not that this one isn't, but hey... he's got neat websites.)

[Aine of the Fae]

I'm so glad I live in Michigan.... And here I was thinking about moving to New Hampshire... well... scrap that plan...

[SilverNightShade]

yay, with Bush as dictator of this lovely country...i'm gunna drown!

That's not so great.

[Tsuchimaru]

Lol, I'm on the east coast of Canada.....

Certainly not my first choice, but oh well.....

[Ahautenites]

Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice! Tsuchi's gonna drown! Everybody celebrate! Woohoo!!!!

[Tsuchimaru]

Actually, I'd probably be mangled, depending on where I am at that moment....but thanks for the support!

:wah2:

[Ahautenites]

Oh. Never mind, then. Mangled is not so good.

[Tsuchimaru]

Both work I suppose.... :lol:

[Ahautenites]

True, but there's a certain majesty to being crushed by a three-hundred foot wall of water slamming into you at freeway speed.

[Tsuchimaru]

I'd still rather die in a swordfight.... :lol:

[Terestai]

If the Yellowstone Caldera goes, everyone west of the Mississippi is in for a really bad day. ;)

True that.... and Yellowstone Lake has suddenly grown a 100-foot bulge in the center, and noone knows why! :eek: Actually, if that one goes, not only will we probably all die here in Colorado, but it would be classified as a mass-extinction eruption. All of Yellowstone will blow up at once - nearly a 27-mile caldera.

[ObsidianShenKa]

I'm so glad I live in Michigan.... And here I was thinking about moving to New Hampshire... well... scrap that plan...
Damn right you're glad you live in Michigan.

Of course, the U.P. is on the Canadian Shield :toofless:

[Ahautenites]

Aw, c'mon. New Hampshire has mountains. (Well, they have things they *call* mountains, anyway. Not mountains. Really big hills. The *Rockies* are mountains.)

[ObsidianShenKa]

Aw, c'mon. New Hampshire has mountains. (Well, they have things they *call* mountains, anyway. Not mountains. Really big hills. The *Rockies* are mountains.)
Michigan has those too. I call them mounds. I'd call them almond joys, but people in the U.P. tend not to have nuts.

But, our deepest valleys are about 800 feet above sea level. We don't have chasms delving into the great abyss or anything.

[Ahautenites]

What is "U.P."?

[Terestai]

What is "U.P."?

Upper Peninsula - the top bit of Michigan. :D

I have only two words: "SKI IOWA!!" :lol:

[Ahautenites]

Ah, thank you. **smiles**

Skiing? Not me, Jack. Uh-uh. Cross-country, maybe some day. Down a hill or a mountain? No can do, buckaroo.

[DixieWitch]

HMmm the middle of the US is looking very good right now!!