Doesn't your sister still live in the Puget Sound, or had she moved?
We have volcanoes and earthquakes.
And a quick online search shows that Maryland has been hit by forty hurricanes since records started being kept.
Ok, just to be clear, was it implied that literal orgies were happening in "Naked Now" or am I being malicious?!?
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Doesn't your sister still live in the Puget Sound, or had she moved?
We have volcanoes and earthquakes.
And a quick online search shows that Maryland has been hit by forty hurricanes since records started being kept.
You mean Seattle? Yeah.
But as I said, it's not about ongoing moderate risks. I've lived in tornado country all my life (although they seem to be a lot less frequent hereabouts than they were in my youth, maybe due to climate change, or maybe it's just that forecasting has gotten more precise so there are fewer false alarms). It's about rebuilding a city on the exact same fault that demolished it once before and is expected to do so again when "The Big One" inevitably hits. I'm sure there were reasons of geography and logistics, but I sometimes wonder why they didn't just rebuild San Francisco in a different location.
Because every part of this continent is subject to disasters of one sort or another: hurricanes, tsunami, quakes, blizzards, droughts, twisters, whatever.
Blizzards might be the least of those, at least statistically in Maryland. We've had one major tremor in 2011 if memory serves (no deaths), and while we endure the occasional tornado, most hurricanes coming our way seem to concentrate mostly on Florida and New York City. We get rained on a lot, true. Two college girls inside a car were caught in a 2001 hurricane and died. I personally feel Maryland dodges a lot of weather bullets, especially compared to Florida and all the Midwest chaos that gets year-round nightly-news coverage along with the emotionally devastated homeowners ABC endlessly exploits for ratings.
Seattle, the Puget Sound, Western Washington sits on top of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where the Pacific and North American plates meet.
According to analysis, the last major quake, in 1700, registered 8.7 to 9.2 in magnitude.The ground level dropped or rose 66 feet, depending upon your location.
We're overdue for the next big one.
Edit to addWe're overdue for the next big one.
Mt. Rainier has had a series of shallow earthquakes the last few months, for the first time in decades.
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That makes Puget Sound sound pretty unsound...
Depending upon how deep or shallow and where the epicenter is located, everything from Vancouver B.C. to the Oregon-California border is toast.
You realize that's not just SF. That's huge stretches of the west coast, where the North American plate grinds under the Pacific plate. You won't want to live in LA or the Pacific Northwest, either…and the latter has volcanoes!
Somewhere Lex Luthor has just come up with a cunning plan.
Yeah, I know. But humans choose to build cities on top of ground that wants to eat them up. Humans are weird.
Plus the cursed burial grounds.
And those risks worry me too. I'm very, very careful using crosswalks, and I compulsively double- or triple-check that my doors are locked before I turn in. I just generally have a very heightened risk awareness.
I am unsure what an ‘Orgiei’ is? Perhaps social tech of Organian origins similar to other tech ‘out of context’ such a holodecks, but there is no evidence of Organian tech in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The bio Tech psi-2009 from The Naked Now which made everyone get h*rni was a TOS virus of unknown origin, maybe this virus can be a plot point for the new Academy series after its pilot episode before they start dabbling into holodeck episodes? btw, Holodecks should *not* exist in the mid 23rd century and earlier. In the 31st century and beyond though, holodecks for pleasure should not exist because they are open to the exploitation of what are now considered to be sentient beings… photonic life. Surely the Doctor/Professor at the Academy is a proponent for such basic ‘shared’ human rights?
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
I guess that I’ll never understand…
So, you're saying you're not gonna hike down 3,200 feet in Yosemite with me. Fair.
Bring gravity boots, or better yet: hover boots.