| ▲ | bombcar 8 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Everyone is secretly (or openly) waiting for Teh Big One we’ve been promised for decades, when Western California will fall into the ocean and Las Vegas become a seaport. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Taniwha 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There's an SF short story (Larry Niven I think) about a seismologist who predicts the big one, but the math is not quite right, the story gets out, panic ensues everyone heads for Nevada, he guy is still working in his lab trying to figure why the sign on his equation is coming out negative when all the rest of the US falls into the sea leaving just his part of CA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | isatis 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Well, there's a theory the latter will happen, but you'd have to be around for possibly 10 million years to see it. https://www.wired.com/story/walker-lane-move-over-san-andrea... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | MontagFTB 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This was the plot of a James Bond movie and when I was a teen I thought it was brilliant. Crack California off at the San Andreas- what could go wrong? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | pcdoodle 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arizona Bay as Bill Hicks called it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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