Spoilers Season 2 Trailers, Previews, and Promos
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Just checked that website, in the area of San Diego where my mom and stepdad live, their house will be on an island in a small island chain just off the newly formed coastline. They live on a hilltop in East County, thank goodness or they would be underwater!
This is an example of writers not understanding what they're writing. A 200m seismic shift would be catastrophic for not just "the region". That would pretty much kill everyone in the LA basin (10s of millions!), and cause significant damage to Southern and Central California. 200 cm is more likely, and even that is a huge shift.
For comparison, compare to the 1964 Alaska Quake: that was a 9.2 magnitude shaker (one of the strongest that caused about 20m of *lateral* motion (not vertical). The strongest earthquake ever -- 9.5 in Chile, 1960 -- caused similar damage. But 200m? The writers need to learn the metric system.
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Alas that's what Janeway said, and Janeway was a scientist. Perhaps she was exaggerating -- reefs can't grow at depths of 200m anyway, maybe she meant 200m from the new coastline
2047 could have been during world war three (depending on exactly what that means of course), 600 million dead, perhaps the quake was actually part of ww3, with someone deliberately causing it, perhaps LA was a ghost town (as suggested in the novelisation of TMP) because of the buildup and fear of WW3
Of course it was a throwaway line, and we've been explaining and ignoring such lines for 56 years - especially ridiculous ones.
2047 could have been during world war three (depending on exactly what that means of course), 600 million dead, perhaps the quake was actually part of ww3, with someone deliberately causing it, perhaps LA was a ghost town (as suggested in the novelisation of TMP) because of the buildup and fear of WW3
Of course it was a throwaway line, and we've been explaining and ignoring such lines for 56 years - especially ridiculous ones.
According to floodmap.net, this is what 200 m of water would look like:
Where's Otisburg?
They should go back in time to El Pueblo De Los Angeles 1781, while everyone in the crew is adjusting their universal translators trying to communicate,
Rios is all: Saludos mis Amigos! Dónde hay Cantina, Aguardiente, un buen puro, y Mujeres!?
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Others: I think that means he's getting help, right?
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Guinan could be running a secret bar on Earth for all of the non-humans I suppose.
I mean even the Terran Empire had alien officers. This Alt Federation could be the same.
In pre-first contact earth. Vulcans can hide (as seen in Carbon Creek for example), not sure about Andorians. Interesting idea though.
There's a book behind the bar titled "To Serve Andorians"..
Maybe her bar is in a trap street like the hidden street in Doctor Who that had aliens
Forward Street branches off of Diagon Alley.
I do wonder if Guinan just magically manifests a "10 Forward" wherever it's needed, a bit like the Captain's Table bar from the novel series.
I really like that idea.
"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—can't get fooled again.”
Poor Bush, I think this song (from his stoner days) intruded in his head.
Now I want it put to a montage of La Sirena flying around through space and time.
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