h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There was a pope who was dug up from his grave, excommunicated, and thrown into the Tiber.

TRiG.

But did he care?

I looked into it.


The pacific Coast of Canada is subject to major earthquakes - granted you said inland but even there canadians are subject to violent windstorms, wildfires and even has active volcanoes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake (one of top three most powerful Earthquakes ever recorded - but Vancouver Island got the worst of the Tsunami)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah_Eve_Wind_Storm_of_2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Coastal_Gale_of_2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Okanagan_Mountain_Park_Fire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseax_Cone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskut-Unuk_River_Cones

Two weeks til finals are over, of course.

To all hootoos.

There is no safe place on this planet of ours.
The geologic record proves this.
It would only take the collision of a 150 metre diametre rock, travelling at 25,000 Kilometres per hour to collide with the Earth, ANYWHERE to send us back to the stone age.

Anywhere safe on Earth???
NO!!

'g'

Hence the title of the Thread being "safEST".

"safEST".

Then there'd better be a lot beer in Utah
because you'll be running out of water soon.


~jwf~

with enough there is always water, slightly yellow and full of minerals

What about some place like Maryland? There's rain, but most hurricanes don't reach that far north. No earthquake faults, low tsunami risk, relatively mild winters... their biggest nuisance is cicadas every once in a while.

You mean these?

"ci-ca-da
Pronunciation [si-key-duh]
any large homopterous insect of the family Cicadidae,
the male of which produces a shrill sound by means of
vibrating membranes on the underside of the abdomen."
-dict.dot.com

picture:
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/question733.htm


~jwf~

>> What about some place like Maryland? <<

Nah, too close to Baltimore.


~jwf~

I wonder if there is a list of likely targets in the event of a nuclear strike?

Something tells me the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S is right near the top.

You wouldn´t want to be in the US anyway. Even without all the natural disasters, we also know that when aliens invade, they go there first.

I'll second Lund. Had an awesome stay there.