Everyone is secretly (or openly) waiting for Teh Big One we’ve been promised for decades, when Western California will fall into the ocean and Las Vegas become a seaport.
Everyone is secretly (or openly) waiting for Teh Big One we’ve been promised for decades, when Western California will fall into the ocean and Las Vegas become a seaport.
There's an SF short story (Larry Niven I think) about a seismologist who predicts the big one, but the math is not quite right, the story gets out, panic ensues everyone heads for Nevada, he guy is still working in his lab trying to figure why the sign on his equation is coming out negative when all the rest of the US falls into the sea leaving just his part of CA
“… Alaska can come too.”
https://youtu.be/kCpjgl2baLs
lol I knew exactly what this was just from that quote! what a great time to be alive and online!
endofworld.swf
Hokay so here’s de ert.
This is a great cliff's notes version that actually makes me want to read it, especially since it's a short story. From the description, that's all it needs.
"A Slight Miscalculation" by Ben Bova
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83720/so-that-eart...
Thanks - that's it
Well, there's a theory the latter will happen, but you'd have to be around for possibly 10 million years to see it. https://www.wired.com/story/walker-lane-move-over-san-andrea...
The way the 2020s are going I would not be surprised if it happens by next Tuesday.
This was the plot of a James Bond movie and when I was a teen I thought it was brilliant. Crack California off at the San Andreas- what could go wrong?
Same as Superman I -Lex Luthor steals a nuke to hit the San Andreas fault and turn Luthor's real estate into beachfront property.
Arizona Bay as Bill Hicks called it.
Learn to swim
Any fucking time. Any fucking day