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Cap'n Red Jack Cash (Misha) (redjackcash) wrote in otf_wank,
@ 2005-08-31 01:35:00

Haven't we seen janusdoa before? I can't remember...
Wank on APoD (Astronomy Picture of the Day).

Satellite image of Katrina just before landfall was Sunday's image. Of course, janusdoa makes the prerequisite "People are stupid for living there"-type comment. People respond, many point out that his journal information reveals him as living in California - a state known for containing an active fault line.

A little bit down, janusdoa and gridlore get into it, referencing things from each other's personal journals.

I'm in there, but I don't wank (at least, I don't think so). At the time, I didn't know janusdoa and gridlore were enjoying each other's company - now I'd pretty much just call troll.

It's not huge, but I thought the personal insults were interesting enough.

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	blackjackrocket 2005-08-31 05:45 am UTC (link)
	Huh, I just said that earlier to someone. At least here in Oregon, all I have to worry about are minor earthquakes and distant volcanoes. (Reply to this)(Thread)

redjackcash
2005-08-31 06:24 am UTC (link)

Yeah, I can see the point, essentially. Sure, things could have been handled better, especially considering New Orleans relative vulnerability. Of course, generally New Orleans isn't whacked by Category 5 hurricanes - when the weather reaches them it's usually down to tropical storms and the like. I just don't like this "They should have known better!" attitude - it's not like every year they get hit by something like this and rebuild, giving a huge finger to nature or anything. Generally, it's something they can handle, or New Orleans would've crumbled long before now. If we're going to avoid living in places regularly hit by storms, then the entire state of Florida and Tornado Alley would be considered uninhabitable...

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eljuno, 2005-08-31 06:30 am UTC

sadisticferret, 2005-08-31 11:27 am UTC

sadisticferret, 2005-08-31 12:05 pm UTC

(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-08-31 12:58 pm UTC

smo, 2005-08-31 01:03 pm UTC

annabelle_lee, 2005-09-01 05:30 am UTC

silrana, 2005-08-31 02:18 pm UTC

keri, 2005-08-31 03:37 pm UTC

silrana, 2005-08-31 05:41 pm UTC

redjackcash, 2005-08-31 07:49 pm UTC

silrana, 2005-08-31 07:55 pm UTC

kijikun, 2005-09-01 01:12 am UTC

redjackcash, 2005-08-31 03:49 pm UTC

psychofangirl, 2005-08-31 08:49 pm UTC

sadisticferret, 2005-08-31 10:09 pm UTC

platedlizard
2005-09-01 06:47 am UTC (link)

Depends on where you are. Coastal Oregon IS waiting for The Big One, which has been estimated to be about 9.0 on the Richter scale and probably cause a big ass tsunami. The last Big One caused a tsunami that was recorded in JAPAN and sank entire forests of cedar.

The West Hills in Portland are basically all fault zone, too.

Much of Eastern Oregon is covered under what is basically one big basalt flow, the result of a super-eruption, although that is not likely to happen again. The only other super-eruption known exists in Siberia.

The magma dome under the Three Sisters (mostly under South Sister) is building again, we could be looking at another eruption there in the next couple hundred years.

Up in Washington... well basically anyone between Mt. Raineer and Puget Sound could be wiped out in a pyroclastic/lahar flow. It wouldn't even need an eruption to trigger that, just a good strong earthquake. Just imagine, a solid wall of liquid concrete racing toward you at 100 miles an hour. At most people would have about 30 minutes to evacuate.

And this is without even getting into such hazards as forest fires.

The North West is not nearly a tame a people think.

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blackjackrocket, 2005-09-01 07:33 am UTC

	ladysorka 2005-08-31 06:42 am UTC (link)
	You know, our planet tends to get hit by really big meteors every few million years. I guess we're all just idiots for living here. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	nevadafighter 2005-08-31 08:42 am UTC (link)
	Not to mention the fact that in 5 billion years this whole planet's going to be making like Vesuvius . . . it's a wonder property values haven't gone down the toilet . . . (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

platedlizard, 2005-09-01 07:00 am UTC

	telophase 2005-08-31 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	If the Yellowstone supervolcano doesn't get us first. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

platedlizard, 2005-09-01 06:52 am UTC

telophase, 2005-09-01 01:14 pm UTC

mael, 2005-09-02 12:16 am UTC

telophase, 2005-09-02 12:23 am UTC

mael, 2005-09-02 12:29 am UTC

telophase, 2005-09-02 12:33 am UTC

	moonjaguar 2005-08-31 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	Don't forget global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	koipool 2005-08-31 06:45 am UTC (link)
	Holy crap! APoD wank! I didn't even know that existed! (Reply to this)

	radiotrash 2005-08-31 06:51 am UTC (link)
	I don't understand the whole "Why do people live where there are disastors?!" thing. Like everyone's gonna go "oh, ok" and the entire USA packs up and moves to Canada. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	notjo 2005-08-31 11:15 am UTC (link)
	Besides, where would we keep them? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	isntitironic 2005-08-31 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	Pah, them wussy Americans wouldn't last two weeks up here. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kijikun, 2005-09-01 01:14 am UTC

	terra_katta 2005-08-31 08:41 am UTC (link)
	Wow. I can't even look at the wank. That picture's pretty. o_o (Reply to this)

	xanos 2005-08-31 09:54 am UTC (link)
	Everyone in that wank was disturbingly perky and cheerful while slinging insults at each other. oO (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ataniell93 2005-08-31 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	gridlore is like that--we're friends in RL. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kylenne 2005-08-31 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	Damn, never thought I'd live to see APoD wank...I just go there for the purdy pictures. Enjoying the fast-paced, glamorous life of a pizza delivery guy? Gridlore wins. (Reply to this)

	dracothelizard 2005-08-31 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	Astronomy Picture of the Day wank. Now I've seen everything. I guess I'll add this to my internet rules then. Rule 4: Nothing is safe from wanking, not even Astronomy communities. (First three rules boil down to everybody having fangirls, everybody has Mary Sues and every fandom has slash) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	teapotgirl 2005-08-31 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	Who are the slash OTPs in the Astronomy fandom? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-08-31 04:08 pm UTC

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2005-08-31 06:04 pm UTC

platedlizard, 2005-09-01 06:54 am UTC

	jetamors 2005-08-31 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	Rule 4: Nothing is safe from wanking, not even Astronomy communities. Pssh. You shoulda been around for the Bad Astronomer vs. seethruart battles. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2005-08-31 09:45 pm UTC

jetamors, 2005-09-02 03:23 am UTC

(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-09-02 04:51 am UTC

(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2005-09-02 01:09 pm UTC

jetamors, 2005-09-02 02:30 pm UTC

	moonjaguar 2005-08-31 05:23 pm UTC (link)
	I don't get it. I've been told I'm insane to live in Tornado Alley and where 100 degree summers and -20 degree winters are routine. I figure every location has its natural hazards. I don't know where people are going to go to avoid big storms, fault lines, and the like. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	nekoneko 2005-08-31 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	Southern Pennsylvania it seems, according to the population boom lately... And people stupid enough to buy expensive houses next to the landfill. They have to be from out of the area. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

megmurry, 2005-09-01 12:55 am UTC

	phosfate 2005-08-31 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	Much better odds in Tornado Alley than in hurrcane land. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2005-08-31 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	I love, more than anything, the "an active fault line" (emphasis mine) thing. http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ shows the earthquakes in California and Nevada. Every single brown line is a DIFFERENT fault. Does this idiot know about earthquakes at all? And that's just California and Nevada. Washington and Oregon have plenty of their own faults. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	redjackcash 2005-08-31 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	Meh, I was just referring to the one that everyone knows - the San Andreas. But yeah, earthquake country... (Reply to this)(Parent)

electricchick, 2005-08-31 11:39 pm UTC

platedlizard, 2005-09-01 06:56 am UTC

	zarla 2005-08-31 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	Oh cool, I didn't know APOD had an LJ feed. Awesome. Fer the record, resident of Southern California. Whee earthquakes, droughts, mudslides, and forest fires! (Reply to this)

	amasaglajax 2005-09-05 02:29 am UTC (link)
	NYC is pretty good on the natural disasters front, I think, and then 9/11 happened. NOWHERE IS SAFE. tinhat (Reply to this)

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