Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > > > > >