2,200 killed in tidal wave

Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:37 am

I am not sure I buy that this is the earth trying to repair itself. it was an earthquke caused by the earth cooling. The crust sqeezes together and earthquakes result.

Global warming does not affect the cooling of the earth over time.

That video just doesn't appear to be that nasty if you know what I mean. I dunno it just looks like a flood. I wonder where it was shot. Some areas the wave was over 30ft high and travelling at 500 mph. This video just does not look like that.

fuu

Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:43 am

Originally posted by Htown
u know i think this is a result of the earth trying to heal itself after years of pollution and industrialization. I mean just look at all the wacky weather we have been getting lately, diseases are running rampant. And i hear Florida will be mostly a swampland in a decade or so. Don't like being morbid but these are the results of humanity destroying itself, the earth is just trying to fight back.

If that was the case, the Tsunami would have hit New Jersey!

Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:18 am

Originally posted by Mugzy
Found a video. This one is not close enough to show anyone getting pulled by the water. I saw another one that did, but out of respect for all that died, I will not post that link.

http://dr.dk/pubs/nyheder/template/lib/wmm.jhtml?mmID=101937&publicationID=1

yea, that's the video I was talking about.
It was taken by a Dutch tourist on the 13th floor of a hotel.
You can see the water through the restaurant, so I guess the flood was 'just' 5 meters high.
Nevertheless, it came unexpected and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of children didn't survive this.

Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:24 am

WOW!!! If NY and LA both go bye bye that would be unreal, thank god im in Illinois, I'm all the way in the middle.

The most annoying thing is news people dont know how to say the name of the wave, they always stumble and end up saying the silent T

Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:32 am

there is something going on with the weather for sure....maybe they are right that we have done and continue to do, too much damage to the earth and the ozone...

40,00 + people is an awful lot. My wife cried when we watched the news last night...

Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:11 am

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
there is something going on with the weather for sure....maybe they are right that we have done and continue to do, too much damage to the earth and the ozone...

40,000 + people is an awful lot. My wife cried when we watched the news last night...

Nope, it is just the Earth going through it's cycles.

They proved it when they found plants where the icecaps are melting, meaning that the Earth does freeze and dethaw like is currently happening.

Also the hole in the ozone has been in decline since the mid 90s, nothing to fear execpt that NewYork city will be under water as well as great Britian.

Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:24 am

if you ask me, it's both.

If it isn't nature that destroys Earth, than it would be because of us.
So the biggest question of this century will be:

Will the Earth survive mankind?

Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:48 am

the Earth will survive mankind.
To quote George Carlin, as much as i can remember, : "We are just annoying fleas to the Earth and the Earth can and will just shake us off like pests. Who are we, and how pompus are we to think we can affect this planet that has lived 4.5 billion years and has seen much worse than us?" Or something like that.

Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:19 am

Finnaly, got some video media for aliitle peep show as to what it would be like.

http://www.bahoo.fr/earthquake/

And allitle video animation for the heck of it.

http://weather.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usc.edu%2Fdept%2Ftsunamis%2Fvideo%2F

Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:05 pm

THe ice melting really isnt the scary thing about global warming. Even if none of the ice melted we would still be int trouble, just from thermal expansion of the oceans. All it takes is for that water to warm just a little bit and expand and we will have global flooding.

Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:37 pm

55000+

Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:53 pm

Originally posted by Davis
Finnaly, got some video media for aliitle peep show as to what it would be like.

http://www.bahoo.fr/earthquake/

the third video really scared the hell out of me

Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:18 pm

Those videos are amazing. The one for phuket is brutal.

The newst figures are 60k+ now with expectations that it may 100k very soon. The World health Organization says that diseases may DOUBLE the death count in weeks.

Absolutely unbelievable.

fuu

Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:10 pm

just watched the vids ... WOW!!!! Ya that last one where he pans into the city and just a rush of water is flowing...freaky, scary as hell. Anyone who lives on a coast anywhere has to shit an eggroll right about now.

Note... can we use this as yet another example of how someone accidentaly tk'ing you is no big deal.

Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:12 pm

Yeah kind of puts things in perspective don't it?