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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Plate Tectonics and your Real Estate Agent
From: Dante Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:00:27 -0400

This is clearly a job for Lex Luthor!

On Saturday, October 14, 2000, at 04:26 PM, Tom Schofield wrote:

> I'm a stone's throw east of a fault, at about 300' elevation, so I figure 
> there is a good chance at that beach front property thing, even with a fair 
> amount of Gore's global warming.  According to my geology class at UC Davis 
> some decade or two ago, the Pacific plate is heading North along 
> Kalifornica, so in x billion years, LA will be beside SF, and the debate 
> will be which is the City and which the suburb.  (The San Andreas cuts 
> offshore, tothe West of SF, but inland to the East of LA.)  A few billion 
> years later LA will be subducted into the Aleution trench ... but we can't 
> wait that long to solve California's problems! 
>  
> Tom 
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dante Stella" <dante@umich.edu> 
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> 
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 11:26 AM 
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Plate Tectonics and your Real Estate Agent 
>  
>  
> > Yes, but at the same time, the oceans are rising and are set to swallow up 
> everything on the East and West coasts.  Since Detroit is the largest inland 
> city with an elevation significantly above sea-level (130m mean, per my 
> GPS) - and also with the greatest industrial (read: weapons-building) 
> capacity, it will be the only place to be. 
> > 
> > Imagine the naval battles the Greater Detroit-Windsor Co-Prosperity Sphere 
> will have with the Archduchy of Minneapolis and the Protectorate of Denver! 
> It will make Pisa vs. Genoa look like a sandbox fight.  Afterward, there 
> will be the more leisurely expeditions to find the lost cities of Chicago, 
> Cleveland and Indianapolis. 
> > 
> > : O 
> > 
> > On Friday, October 13, 2000, at 02:54 PM, John Collier wrote: 
> > 
> > > Public Service Announcement 
> > > 
> > > The Pacific plate is RISING over the continental plate of North America. 
> > > California is not going to sink into the sea like a modern day Atlantis. 
> I 
> > > am not familiar with the exact drift directions but conceivably 
> California 
> > > may run right over Texas! 
> > > 
> > > JBC 
> > > 
> > > 
>  
>