Most Outstanding Contributor Award 2004 - Results

[Paul Burridge]

Hi all,

The votes in the contest have now been counted and the results are as
follows:-

Kevin: 17,346
John Popelish: 498
Win: 456
John L: 450
John W: 400
Rich Grise: 370
Ban:1
Jim Thompson: 0
Keith: 0
Bloggs: 0
Gnome: 0

So a big congratulations to the clear winner, Kevin.
Thanks also to everyone who voted. I'd also like to than Kev for
kindly helping out with the tedious and time-consuming counting
process.

 

[Paul Burridge]

I read in sci.electronics.design that John Fields <jfields@austininstrum
ents.com> wrote (in <[email protected]>) about
'Most Outstanding Contributor Award 2004 - Results', on Tue, 10 Aug
2004:

He's seen a recent British TV programme that reported the thing about
the mountain falling off the Canary Islands and creating a tsunami in
the Atlantic. Take no notice, but invest in buoyancy aids. (;-)

Yes, John. The claim was repeated in yesterday's Daily Mail, too. The
whole thing is a crock of sh*t designed by certain interests in the
insurance industry to relieve gullible Americans of their dough.
Anyone who seriously believes a couple of miillion cubic feet of rock
sliding into the eastern Atlantic is going to wipe out half of N.
America wants their head examined. My calculations reveal that the
height of the 'tsunami' at landfall in NY to be approximately
three-quarters of an inch, so don't even bother putting on your
wellies.
Remember the Y2000 insurance scam? It's just another example of
insurers' taking gullible mugs to the cleaners.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

I read in sci.electronics.design that John Fields <jfields@austininstrum
ents.com> wrote (in <[email protected]>) about
'Most Outstanding Contributor Award 2004 - Results', on Tue, 10 Aug
2004:



He's seen a recent British TV programme that reported the thing about
the mountain falling off the Canary Islands and creating a tsunami in
the Atlantic. Take no notice, but invest in buoyancy aids. (;-)

Even that monster will not travel inland by a few miles at most- a
non-event. Homeland Security has roped it off after intercepting
chatroom messaging about helping it along with shaped charges.
Halliburton has proposed encapsulating it in flotation plastic for $500B.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Paul Burridge
[email protected]>) about 'Most Outstanding Contributor Award 2004 - Results',

Yes, John. The claim was repeated in yesterday's Daily Mail, too. The
whole thing is a crock of sh*t designed by certain interests in the
insurance industry to relieve gullible Americans of their dough. Anyone
who seriously believes a couple of miillion cubic feet of rock sliding
into the eastern Atlantic is going to wipe out half of N. America wants
their head examined.

Not 'wipe out half of N America', but cause very costly damage to the
eastern seaboard, and also to the seaboards of western Africa and
Europe.

Far from being invented by the insurance industry, this warning came
from a serious, peer-reviewed, science paper (maybe more than one). You
can find it in the 'New Scientist' archives on line. Last year, IIRC.

 

[Winfield Hill]

John Woodgate wrote...

Far from being invented by the insurance industry, this warning came
from a serious, peer-reviewed, science paper (maybe more than one). You
can find it in the 'New Scientist' archives on line. Last year, IIRC.

The reasonable fear of a tsunami resulting from seafloor slumping
along well-known steep unstable continental-shelf underwater cliffs.
Combined with methane gas releases to help destroy already inadequate
slope stability. There's an extensive seafloor record showing massive
slides in the recent past. Calculations on the effects of such slides
reveal sobering tsunami strengths originating not very far offshore.

Watch out.

 

[Paul Burridge]

Not 'wipe out half of N America', but cause very costly damage to the
eastern seaboard, and also to the seaboards of western Africa and
Europe.

Far from being invented by the insurance industry, this warning came
from a serious, peer-reviewed, science paper (maybe more than one). You
can find it in the 'New Scientist' archives on line. Last year, IIRC.

Supposedly. I can only assume this guy's in on the scam, as is this
Halliburton guy - whoever the hell he is - that Bloggs mentioned, plus
the company the makes the floatation plastic. $500bn? LOL! Some
scammer's obviously going to do verrry nicely out of it, thank you.
Trust me, John. I know what I'm talking about. This is just a massive
*scam* and there ain't gonna be no big wave arising from a landslide
in the Canaries. Mark my words!

 

[John Popelish]

I saw a thing on edjamacayshunal TV about a big chunk of Hawaii that's
poised to fall off and fall 14,000 feet to the ocean floor. Like, a
significant chunk of Big Island - there's even a big crack, so I'm
told. I have no idea how I'd look up something like that.

But they say that tsunami will be pretty big.

But this is California - Surf's Up!

This map shows the pair of rift zones that represent a weak attachment
of the southern section of the big island from the main land mass:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/Kilauea_map.html