From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:05:17 -0800, Jeff Shultz
 wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:05:12 -0500, Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 19:07:48 -0800, Jeff Shultz
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:27:35 -0500, Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Depends on the nature of the disaster.  Drop a KT-era
asteroid in the
>>>> Atlantic and you'd best be on mountaintops in the East.
>>>
>>> And if it drops on your head, you're toast anyway. Unless I've got
>>> personal control of a 100mt weapon on a Saturn V class booster, I'm not
>>> going to worry too much about KT-era sized asteroids.
>>>
>>>
>> Actually that was my point.  You can do all sorts of paranoid things to
>> insure your safety but there's always a bigger disaster that can
>> overwhelm
>> you.
>
> Knowing my escape routes while on a coast known for tsunami's isn't
> paranoid... although total avoidance is.
>
>

Nothing wrong with warning systems, etc., but total avoidance is what I'm
talking about.  Reading reminds me that many of the Appalachian mountain
tops aren't going to save you from drowning if a KT is dropped in the
Atlantic -- waves that just stagger the imagination.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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