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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

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.

Taniwha 1y ago
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
- cheschire 1y ago
  “… Alaska can come too.” https://youtu.be/kCpjgl2baLs https://youtu.be/kCpjgl2baLs
  - gnarlynarwhal42 1y ago
    lol I knew exactly what this was just from that quote! what a great time to be alive and online! endofworld.swf
    - bombcar 1y ago
      Hokay so here’s de ert.
- dylan604 1y ago
  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.
- p1mrx 1y ago
  "A Slight Miscalculation" by Ben Bova https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83720/so-that-earthquake-did-you-check-your-math https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83720/so-that-eart...
  - Taniwha 1y ago
    Thanks - that's it
isatis 1y ago
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-andreas-fault/ https://www.wired.com/story/walker-lane-move-over-san-andrea...
- neuronic 1y ago
  The way the 2020s are going I would not be surprised if it happens by next Tuesday.
pcdoodle 1y ago
Arizona Bay as Bill Hicks called it.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
  Learn to swim
  - tialaramex 1y ago
    Any fucking time. Any fucking day
MontagFTB 1y ago
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?
- dekhn 1y ago
  Same as Superman I -Lex Luthor steals a nuke to hit the San Andreas fault and turn Luthor's real estate into beachfront property.

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.

Taniwha 1y ago

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

cheschire 1y ago
“… Alaska can come too.” https://youtu.be/kCpjgl2baLs https://youtu.be/kCpjgl2baLs
- gnarlynarwhal42 1y ago
  lol I knew exactly what this was just from that quote! what a great time to be alive and online! endofworld.swf
  - bombcar 1y ago
    Hokay so here’s de ert.
dylan604 1y ago
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.
p1mrx 1y ago
"A Slight Miscalculation" by Ben Bova https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83720/so-that-earthquake-did-you-check-your-math https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83720/so-that-eart...
- Taniwha 1y ago
  Thanks - that's it

isatis 1y ago

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-andreas-fault/ https://www.wired.com/story/walker-lane-move-over-san-andrea...

neuronic 1y ago
The way the 2020s are going I would not be surprised if it happens by next Tuesday.

pcdoodle 1y ago

Arizona Bay as Bill Hicks called it.

2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
Learn to swim
- tialaramex 1y ago
  Any fucking time. Any fucking day

MontagFTB 1y ago

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?

dekhn 1y ago
Same as Superman I -Lex Luthor steals a nuke to hit the San Andreas fault and turn Luthor's real estate into beachfront property.