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If we are going to start pre-emptively triggering fault lines, what are the residents of Los Angeles going to say? |
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However, we do this with avalanches (though maybe not with nuclear weapons), so it sounds like a plan to me. |
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Yeah, I was hoping for Public:
Safety or Public: Disaster
Prevention, but I guess here will do |
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I once read a book that explained that if you plot severity of event vs time between events, you get a curve that follows a power law. i.e. The longer you wait between entropising events, the more vigorous they'll be when they do eventually come around. I think there's a HB idea somewhere that suggests 'shaking up' governments in this way. |
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Though I don't recommend doing this immediately (Bermuda would be washed clean in the Tsunami - I'll be back in the UK for Christmas though) I do think it might be worthwhile triggering smallish tremors every month or so along big fault-lines, in order to smooth their movements. |
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In the specific example of Cubre Vieja, mightn't there be a way to erode the offending lump piece by piece, thus saving all the horrific loss of life and property? |
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It looks like florida would get whacked hard by the tsunami, nuke-induced or otherwise. |
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Would nukes be powerful enough to snap off that chunk of extruding land? |
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Sure, if we bury a few of them
deep in the fissure. |
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[erode the offending lump piece by
piece] we're talking 500 cubic
kilometers here - that's 120 cubic
miles. As in 120 solid chunks of
rock, a mile by a mile by a mile
-each- in size. Not trivial, but
mmm, yes, could be a comparable
task to the Atlantic-wide
evacuation and wholescale
rebuilding of cities. |
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And we'd have to excavate it with
an extremely light touch - no
excessively large blasting charges
here methinks. |
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So a whole lot more boring. /edit/ sorry, completely unintended pun I only just noticed. |
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Can't we just nuke it? Huh? Pretty
please? |
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<Agitated Beaker> Mee Meee! Mee Meeee! MeeMeeMeeMeeMeeeeeee!!! </ab> |
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Before the nuke was detonated, you could remove the ocean for about 1/2 mile back, so the majority of the mountain fell onto bare ocean floor. |
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A documentary on this a while back showed La Palma’s separation would be due to the extreme heating of water trapped within. My thought at the time was to drill it full of holes so the pressure couldn’t get high enough, of course doing battle with subterranean lava heated water is likely futile. |
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Living on the eastern seaboard of the US, I will be wiped out, so how’s my insurance? I am insured for all so called ‘acts of god’ including a tsunami, but your proposal is for a ‘man made’ disaster. Hmmm. |
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The first thing I thought when I saw that documentary was that terrorists can now attack a country without having to enter the country being attacked. |
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How about you get those large earth movers to do the work. |
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I like the idea of removing the
water beforehand - build a giant
cassion around the mountain
perhaps. And [Shz] maybe it's
the insurance industry that would
be most interested in funding
this venture, seeing what they
stand to lose otherwise. |
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[Pa've] My reading is that the
fissure is not a tectonic
fault-line, but a slippage fissure
of a giant, slow-moving
landslide. I'm not proposing that
mankind's puny weapons could
trigger an earthquake. |
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Although maybe what we need
to do is drill [Shz]'s holes and
pump water -into- it.... |
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trust me... you wouldnt need nukes... |
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also it would be better to simply drill down into the magma underneath, thus letting it higher to heat the water in the rock face making it collapse... |
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or you could blow it up, piece by piece making smaller usefull tsunamis... |
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all funded by the surfers waiting for the massive waves.... |
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I was thinking about this idea - worrying about it. If one had a bomb and terror in mind, this approach would provide a lot of leverage. In fact this could probably be done with 19th century technology but no-one thought of it. |
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Until Now! Mwahahaha!
<distant sound of tepid air rushing through a slightly-rusting nozzle> |
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