Any chance that California will break off into the ocean?

[RandyS]

Any chance that Texas could break off into the ocean?

I'm not asking if it's technically likely to happen on its own, I'm asking if someone can arrange it for me.

I can get ahold of some nukes if you like.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

If California did break off as an island, maybe it would look like it did in maps from the 17th century.

http://www.prigsbee.com/maps/california.htm

However, even back then, some cartographers hedged their bets and depicted California as being an island in some of their maps, but not in others. That reminds me of Schrödinger's cat for some reason.

 

[RJDiogenes]

What most people-- i.e. everybody but me-- don't take into account is the fact that centuries of seismic activity have rendered the bedrock under California porous. Even taking into account the solid top layer and all the building and fat movie producers, California on average is less dense than sea water. Therefore, when California finally breaks off from the rest of North America-- and it will, within the next twenty years-- it will actually float. For the next 462 years, California will be known as the Floating Continent-- or, more informally, Califloater-- and will wander the seven seas like the Flying Dutchman, going up and down the coasts of the continents over and over.

I go into more detail on my upcoming History Channel special.

 

[bigdaddy]

We can hope.

 

[Captain Ice]

What most people-- i.e. everybody but me-- don't take into account is the fact that centuries of seismic activity have rendered the bedrock under California porous. Even taking into account the solid top layer and all the building and fat movie producers, California on average is less dense than sea water. Therefore, when California finally breaks off from the rest of North America-- and it will, within the next twenty years-- it will actually float. For the next 462 years, California will be known as the Floating Continent-- or, more informally, Califloater-- and will wander the seven seas like the Flying Dutchman, going up and down the coasts of the continents over and over.

I go into more detail on my upcoming History Channel special.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Any chance that Texas could break off into the ocean?

I'm not asking if it's technically likely to happen on its own, I'm asking if someone can arrange it for me.

Who are you, Rick Perry?

*snerk*

 

[MANT!]

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/card00132_fr.jpg

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://liblog.libraries.claremont.edu/images/pastearth.jpg&imgrefurl=http://liblog.libraries.claremont.edu/archives/2008/01/30/mapping_the_past_and_future_earth.html&usg=__z_-XOiXGoRYRwJhls3AwKsUht5w=&h=291&w=460&sz=76&hl=en&start=19&um=1&tbnid=cxiBjb1oqHfmiM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmap%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bearth%2Bfuture%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address%26rlz%3D1I7GGLR_en-US%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1

 

[MetroKid]

For what will most likely happen in California in a few million years, I kindly refer you to Mexico’s Baja peninsula. The Gulf of California will likely just keep unzipping the land northward.

 

[RJDiogenes]

What most people-- i.e. everybody but me-- don't take into account is the fact that centuries of seismic activity have rendered the bedrock under California porous. Even taking into account the solid top layer and all the building and fat movie producers, California on average is less dense than sea water. Therefore, when California finally breaks off from the rest of North America-- and it will, within the next twenty years-- it will actually float. For the next 462 years, California will be known as the Floating Continent-- or, more informally, Califloater-- and will wander the seven seas like the Flying Dutchman, going up and down the coasts of the continents over and over.

I go into more detail on my upcoming History Channel special.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Nope.

Antarctica, however....

 

[Docbrown777]

Any chance that Texas could break off into the ocean?

Texans will tell you that there is no chance Texas will ever fall into the ocean. Why? Because Oklahoma sucks.