Fish-head, too. I take it you have read this story about the chunk of the volcanic island of La Palma in the Canaries falling into the water.
Computer models of the island's collapse show the first regions to be hit, with waves topping 100 metres (330ft), will be the neighbouring Canary Islands. Within a few hours the west coast of Africa will be battered with similar-sized waves. 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.One the one hand, economic disaster. On the other, imagine the body surfing possibilities.
Comments
Michael Demmons - August 10, 2004 11:48 AM
On the one hand, it's strange that this is not getting more play.
On the other, seriously, what the hell can we do about it? I guess, just let it happen. If it's as big as they say, it's not like we have any tyupe of machinery that's big enough to constrain it.
I gotta couple bungee cords I can kick in.
Michael Demmons - August 10, 2004 11:49 AM
BTW: I really really think you should stop posting commenters' email addresses.
It just invites spam.
Alan - August 10, 2004 12:00 PM
Isn't that email thing your choice? When I post I do not post the email for me...lets just check when I post this.
David Janes - August 10, 2004 1:27 PM
The problem is that most people's blogging software hides the e-mail address: it's demanded so that the host blogger can contact this comment poster if need be.
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote a book called Lucifer's Hammer. A scene in the book has a surfer catching such a wave (and wipeout!)
Alan - August 10, 2004 1:37 PM
And I am a lazy administrator. I do not think I have ever used the email to contact anyone and the few posts here that have been rude as opposed to the many (including mine) that are merely idiodic I just delete - I even save all of SayNay's even if I have moved some of them around (strictly in my effort to make this my blog an expression of art in the nature of Lawerence Stern's media savvy early novels.) Deleting has only happened about 3 times over 1021 posts. Maybe I am lucky and maybe the silverorange servers protect against comments spam in wonderful ways. I wish my referral log could be so protected as one spammer has a hold of it.
I do take Michael's main point very seriously, however, which is how posting emails leads to spam. That leads me to wonder again what point is there anymore to email.
portland - August 15, 2004 12:54 AM
huh? waves? they're here this week by the way. you in?