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Spee
2004-08-10, 02:42 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1279710,00.html


Island 'splodes, Canary Islands, Britan, Africa, an North America gets pwnd by bigass wave.


I :love: michigan,

Dharkbayne
2004-08-10, 02:44 AM
If we needed to, I'm betting we could neutralize/reverse the wave with a bigass bomb/nuke or something along those lines.

SDM
2004-08-10, 02:48 AM
We could neutralize it with a zillion tampons. The supar-HEAVY days kind.

Jaged
2004-08-10, 02:53 AM
Wouldn't that just stir up more movement and waves? They mentioned that waves would hit both sides of britain. That means that this stuff would bouunce around. If we nuked it waves would still probably hit some part of the world.

Dharkbayne
2004-08-10, 02:58 AM
Wouldn't that just stir up more movement and waves? They mentioned that waves would hit both sides of britain. That means that this stuff would bouunce around. If we nuked it waves would still probably hit some part of the world.

It would break the wave up, I thikn. Of course, I'm not a physics major, so, meh.

r3d
2004-08-10, 03:00 AM
If we nuked it waves would still probably hit some part of the world.

Are you implying that we are going to nuke a tidal wave?

Jaged
2004-08-10, 03:02 AM
If we needed to, I'm betting we could neutralize/reverse the wave with a bigass bomb/nuke or something along those lines.

Dhark implied it. I was replying to him.

Smaug
2004-08-10, 03:06 AM
All you could really do in a situation like this is evacuate. Even though scientists know it might happen soon, they don't know exactly when, and the wave travels very fast. So its the same situation as an earthquake. You're pretty much helpless.

r3d
2004-08-10, 03:14 AM
Dhark implied it. I was replying to him.

REaDING IS FoR ThE WEaK

Zodiac
2004-08-10, 03:17 AM
:rofl:

:love: r3d

Spee
2004-08-10, 03:23 AM
It would break the wave up, I thikn. Of course, I'm not a physics major, so, meh.


What Im thinking they would try to do, is launch a nuke into the water a few hundred miles prior to where the wave would hit. IN addition to annihilating any ocean life in there for eon, sna making PETA shit itself, it would generate, I think, a massive wave. Unfortunatly, waves go in circular patterns unless created at an angle.

So, the nuke would have to hit the surface at 45 or less degrees, and explode. The wave would hit the other wave, resulting in one of a bunch of possibilities.

1: Like a sine wave, the nuke wave hits the island wave, and the island wave is either 1: Pwnd, or 2: weakened.
2: nuke wave hits island wave. Creats epically monstrous whirlpool that sucks in ships for 50 miles.
3: zee n00ks! Zey d0 nus'ing! And the waves pass through each other harmlessly (Not so sure about this one...)

Octavian
2004-08-10, 06:57 AM
Well... looks like you guys are pretty much screwed then. Mentioned absolutely nothing about my side of the world being affected. :)

Baneblade
2004-08-10, 07:10 AM
The trajectory of the warhead would have zero bearing on the explosive forces. It could be launched from a submarine a mile under...

As for the wave canceling out the other one...I dont think the wave from the nuke itself will be any better, odds would tend to point to the opposite.

So ultimately what we have is Deep Impact...but with France surviving. :lol:

Octavian
2004-08-10, 07:18 AM
So ultimately what we have is Deep Impact...but with France surviving.

And the bloody kangaroos.

Infernus
2004-08-10, 09:17 AM
Too many unkowns to do really anything at all... namely a time frame... If people are told they need to evacuate you get large scale panic and people die in the ensuing riots... If you don't do anything the supposed wave kills people. You use a nuke you fuck up an ecosystem plus there are no guaruntees, if detonated at even slightly the wrong time or slightly the wrong angle the Tsunami will just gain more power, or there will just be another big wave out there...

AztecWarrior
2004-08-10, 11:55 AM
OH, great. What the hell am I supposed to do, move inland?

Seriously, "Waves between 20 and 50 metres [sic] high" means waves anywhere from 60 to 150 feet. What the fuck am I supposed to do?

Infernus
2004-08-10, 12:01 PM
OH, great. What the hell am I supposed to do, move inland?

Seriously, "Waves between 20 and 50 metres [sic] high" means waves anywhere from 60 to 150 feet. What the fuck am I supposed to do?

/me offer's refuge...

Actually I'll probably have to move to... atleast to a point behind the Appalachain's... Mt. Pocono Here I Come!

Ivan
2004-08-10, 12:02 PM
/me offer's refuge...

Actually I'll probably have to move to... atleast to a point behind the Appalachain's... Mt. Pocono Here I Come!
Stay away from me. :) :p

NoSurrender
2004-08-10, 12:06 PM
mmmmm good ol midwest

Infernus
2004-08-10, 12:08 PM
Stay away from me. :) :p

Oh MAI MAI I completely forgot... Butler, PA here I come!

Dharkbayne
2004-08-10, 12:28 PM
Too many unkowns to do really anything at all... namely a time frame... If people are told they need to evacuate you get large scale panic and people die in the ensuing riots... If you don't do anything the supposed wave kills people. You use a nuke you fuck up an ecosystem plus there are no guaruntees, if detonated at even slightly the wrong time or slightly the wrong angle the Tsunami will just gain more power, or there will just be another big wave out there...

I'm not saying it has to be a NUKE, I'm sure a few couple hundred thousand pound bombs would do the job too.

EarlyDawn
2004-08-10, 12:44 PM
The thing you have to consider, is how long would we even have to react? An hour or two, at most, as the wave comes in?

Infernus
2004-08-10, 01:17 PM
The thing you have to consider, is how long would we even have to react? An hour or two, at most, as the wave comes in?

Between nine and 12 hours after the island collapses, waves between 20 and 50 metres high will have crossed 4,000 miles of ocean to crash into the Caribbean islands and the eastern seaboard of the US and Canada.


Anyway... in the event this happens can I come stay with you Early? YOU ARE MY ROCK!

JetRaiden
2004-08-10, 01:54 PM
:scared: o great...I hate living in coastal rhode island. hopefully connecticut and massachusetts will take most of the blow, if something like that occurred.

Infernus
2004-08-10, 01:56 PM
You live in Rhode Island? OMG WHERE? Next time I go to visit my family up there I am so just gonna like pop on by and suprise you.

JetRaiden
2004-08-10, 01:57 PM
You live in Rhode Island? OMG WHERE? Next time I go to visit my family up there I am so just gonna like pop on by and suprise you.

in east greenwich. about 15 minutes from providence. :brow:

Infernus
2004-08-10, 02:09 PM
in east greenwich. about 15 minutes from providence. :brow:

DUDE! My aunt and uncle live in providence... !!! YOU GOTS YOUSELF A STALKZ0R!

AztecWarrior
2004-08-10, 02:12 PM
I life in FL. Nowhere to run but Georgia. It takes 8 hours to get there, assuming no traffic.

Infernus
2004-08-10, 02:13 PM
I life in FL. Nowhere to run but Georgia. It takes 8 hours to get there, assuming no traffic.

=/ maybe triggar can airlift yas?

Hydralisk
2004-08-10, 03:51 PM
OH, great. What the hell am I supposed to do, move inland?

Seriously, "Waves between 20 and 50 metres [sic] high" means waves anywhere from 60 to 150 feet. What the fuck am I supposed to do?
Go surfing

Rbstr
2004-08-10, 05:00 PM
If we needed to, I'm betting we could neutralize/reverse the wave with a bigass bomb/nuke or something along those lines.

You'd have to use so many bombs you'd kill basicaly everything in the atlantic, and the wave would be fast enough that there would not be time enought for them to get there

EDIT: I remember watching a thing on discovery about this, :love: Kansas

SDM
2004-08-10, 05:59 PM
I'm telling you. Gigantic tampon. A GIGANPON if you will. A megapon, or perhaps a ultrapon 9000.

Dharkbayne
2004-08-10, 06:14 PM
I'm telling you. Gigantic tampon. A GIGANPON if you will. A megapon, or perhaps a ultrapon 9000.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

AztecWarrior
2004-08-10, 06:22 PM
Go surfing
Go to Hell :evil:

Spider
2004-08-10, 07:33 PM
As far as I know... if a Tsunami hits the only way to know is with seismic readers on the bottom of the ocean... and a tsunami doesnt take much to pop up and fuck up anything... wasnt there a region of japan that was hit by a small Tidal wave couple years back and it made a shitload of corpses and water in the streets for months...?

Biohazzard56
2004-08-10, 07:36 PM
/me offer's refuge...

Actually I'll probably have to move to... atleast to a point behind the Appalachain's... Mt. Pocono Here I Come!

You both can come stay at my house.

Hydralisk
2004-08-10, 08:00 PM
Go to Hell :evil:
Ok!
:love:

ChewyLSB
2004-08-10, 08:56 PM
Nothing really you can do but evacuate. Oh well. Maybe the scientist is wrong. :D

Baneblade
2004-08-10, 09:19 PM
Good ole Southwest.

Mr1337Duck
2004-08-10, 11:32 PM
I live in Midwest. Nothing but a goddamn Chinese invasion is gettin' me.

They say people don't care enough. What can you do? Pour a few hundred billion dollars into some crackpot project to pull the island back up? Build a barrier where it'll fall to stop it from hitting the water?


Or better still, find some resource on this island and start mining. They'll disolve that thing in a couple years.



Same with super-eruptions and massive comet strikes. If it's gonna happen, we're fucked. Lots of people and animals will die, and we're gonna try to rebuild.

Zodiac
2004-08-11, 12:11 AM
"Between nine and 12 hours after the island collapses, waves between 20 and 50 metres high will have crossed 4,000 miles of ocean to crash into the Caribbean islands and the eastern seaboard of the US and Canada. "

I doubt a 100 ft wave is going to be as cataclismic for the USA as some of you make it sound. :p

I live 3 miles from the atlantic and im not worried, not like there is anything I can do about it anyway.

Rbstr
2004-08-11, 12:15 AM
But the thing is the Wave gets MUCH higher when it hits the beach becasue it no longer can wave so deep in the ocean, it could possibly level all of the skyscrapes that have nothing inbetween them and the waterfront, oethr than trees and other small thingys like houses. And all the water even if it didn't destry the buildings it would kill any electric things. Think about it Wallstreet would be under many feet of water, with the rest of manhattan. It would basicaly cripple the US.

Zodiac
2004-08-11, 01:35 AM
But the thing is the Wave gets MUCH higher when it hits the beach becasue it no longer can wave so deep in the oceaneh? Don't know where you came up with that. 20-50 meters means 20-50 meters.

Be paranoid if you want, but even if it does happen, it wont be the end of the world.

Heavygain
2004-08-11, 02:43 AM
:love: my cellar that is in my THIRD basement, thats right, THIRD. Bitches, thats right. i gots three basement cause my house is a sunken, but they call it a rambler. so i pizzown you with a bag of skittles and some oreos.


EDIT: Why dont we just pull the big ass plug thats at the bottom of the ocean :brow: SDM knows what im talkin 'bout :brow:

Baneblade
2004-08-11, 02:45 AM
Why the hell would you want to go into a basement during a flood?

Heavygain
2004-08-11, 02:47 AM
Cause i can

Infernus
2004-08-11, 07:40 AM
Why the hell would you want to go into a basement during a flood?

Cause you see... Heavy is lacking that 'brain' thing that everyone else has... :love:

AztecWarrior
2004-08-11, 10:41 AM
I doubt a 100 ft wave is going to be as cataclismic for the USA as some of you make it sound. :p
That's because OUR HOUSES ARE GOING TO FALL APART AS WE TRY IN VAIN TO REACH THE SURFACE BUT WE ALL DROWN ! ! !

It's a WAVE OF WATER 100 FEET HIGH GOING FASTER THAN A JET LINER. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT GOING TO BE BAD?

AztecWarrior
2004-08-11, 10:43 AM
:love: my cellar that is in my THIRD basement, thats right, THIRD. Bitches, thats right. i gots three basement cause my house is a sunken, but they call it a rambler. so i pizzown you with a bag of skittles and some oreos.

Short bus to school?

In the basement, the water fills up your house and you die. GG

SDM
2004-08-11, 01:11 PM
Short bus to school?

In the basement, the water fills up your house and you die. GG
Maybe thats where he keeps his mini-submarine. While you're dead and bloated, floating face down in Miami, he'll be munching Skittles, and deploying his Tampax OMNIPON X-800.

Zodiac
2004-08-11, 01:55 PM
Maybe thats where he keeps his mini-submarine. While you're dead and bloated, floating face down in Miami, he'll be munching Skittles, and deploying his Tampax OMNIPON X-800. :rofl:

Heavygain
2004-08-11, 04:22 PM
Yep, SDM's got the idea, your all so slow. :doh:

Red October
2004-08-11, 06:00 PM
eeessshhh.

Didn't hit the link, but they've been saying this crap for years along with...

1) San Andreas fault will cause Cailifornia to slide off into the ocean! (If an earthquake that big happened, whole world is in a pickle + considered impossible).

2) The Super-Volcano will erupt in Yellowstone and wipe out most of life as we know it. (Hope I'm there when it happens...quick death).

3) Meteor or Comet from space will slam right into us! (Hope I'm in its path, quick death).

Bottom line, there are numerous cataclysmic events that "could" happen and not a damn thing you could really do about them. You could move to avoid one....only to be in the way of another...or worse, be so far from it that you experiance the "effects" of the said event. Ex. Starvation, warfare for food, disease, etc.

Go on with life as normal. Nothing to see here people, move along. These aren't the droids your looking for. "These aren't the droids were looking for". You can go about your business. "You can go about your business". Move Along. "Move Along! Move Along!".