@hiwaygal said:

Dammit.

Dont worry hiway- I-64 never backs up. We're good.

Actually the VA coastline has about 30-50 more miles of continental shelf than the rest of the Eastern Seaboard. Meaning, the wave will likely break and the energy dissipate further from the coast than in other areas. I still wouldn't stand on the beach to watch it though.

@the-gipper said:

The Mayans had all those cities that are now just ruins in the jungle..

Don't forget the Black Death which wiped out about 1/3rd of the population of Europe.

Black Death- what a failure, only 1/3? Hell that doesn't even match BQ completion %.

@the-gipper said:

1. I apologize for digressing off the subject of the constant debate about the quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, but there is certainly sufficient babble on the issue without my input. Besides, it gives me a headache to try to synthesize all the voluminous postulations on the matter.

2. Some say that it is a sign of the paucity of quality current artsmanship when the following fact is taken into account:

In the decade of the 2000s, the second best selling musical artist is: The Beatles.

I say, no, it is merely an indication that generation after generation the talent of that band is recognized as being perhaps the best there ever was, the best there ever will be.

3. OK, I have certain guilty pleasures in TV viewing, Survivor being one of them even though perhaps the whole schtick of that show is getting a little old.

4. I hear the NBA is thinking of retiring #23 leaguewide in honor of Michael Jordan. I believe this to be absolutely absurd. Baseball did it for Jackie Robinson, but his situation was vastly different. His number was retired not because he was such a great player, though he was, but because of the greater social implications that arose from his situation. Michael Jordan was a great player....but in my opinion by no means the greatest there ever was. (I would take Magic and Russell and maybe Wilt over him). And beyond that, he was basically just a sales prop, an endorsement tool for the league. He was by no means any sort of social icon of the sort Jackie Robinson was.

5. Rough week. Losing Patrick Swazey who was vastly popular with both men and women. Every man wanted to be him, every woman wanted to do him. And Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary. One of the main consciences of a generation. And even Henry Gibson. A minor, but funny, character.

6. OK, so in your opinion which natural disaster will be a potential extinction event for mankind first: Earth being struck by a giant asteroid? The Yellowstone Super Volcano erupting? The La Palma volcano in the Canary Islands suffering a landslide that would cause a 2000 foot tsunami to hit America's east coast? The melting of the Greenland ice cap causing to much cold water to be released into the Atlantic thus "turning off" the Gulf Stream and causing an ice age for much of the northern hemisphere?

7. OK, to a more cheery subject: HOT BABE of the WEEK: How about Eva Longoria Parker?

The Gipper

Looks like LeBron will have to pick a new #

How about Lumbergh multiplies and spreads beyond the internet Ever see Matrix Revolutions?

@the-gipper said:

The Mayans had all those cities that are now just ruins in the jungle..

Don't forget the Black Death which wiped out about 1/3rd of the population of Europe.

I'm definetly saying Mother nature will balance out our population for us....has happened throughout human history. We have gotten better at the Microbiology but MN will get us sooner than these other events on a world scale. Like dog shakes "dry" after a bath. If we weren't "as good" at the biology, the bird flu and swine flu would have gotten a lot more than it has.

anyway, I just wanted to throw out that im effin dreamy, just like BQ and I's have no problem posting a picture of myself

Zombo's idealized version of Patrick Swazey?

@solon16 said:

Are you saying that nature will simply "cull" out the human race? That sort of thing has certainly happened before. Speaking of the Mayans, when the Spaniards landed in what is Mexico today there were millions of Mayans. With the disease the Spanish brought with them, in not so many years the Mayan population was down to a few thousands.

The Mayans had all those cities that are now just ruins in the jungle..

Don't forget the Black Death which wiped out about 1/3rd of the population of Europe.

@inspecta said:

I doubt it because the entire population of the East Coast will be having the same idea as you, and the Interstates will be one massive parking lot. Better to be in a plane or a helicopter....or get into a boat and head out to see TOWARD the Tsunami. A number of miles off shore the Tsunami would perhaps be a massive wave, but you might be able to ridge the crest. If you are near the shore or on land, you may as well just put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

@solon16 said:

I'm always holding out hope for a zombie apocalypse.

@inspecta said:

Loser? Haha, wow man you really showed me.....how the in the hell do you come up with these witty quips?!?

Maybe you should do some research on the internet on how to insult somebody properly. Right now my non verbal autistic brother has better smack talk skills than you....

Sure thing there tubbo. Sure thing, ROFLMAO.

@inspecta said:

If there's a tsunami on the way, you wouldn't make it very far in your vehicle before either getting in an accident or hitting the biggest "traffic jam" in the history of the world.

@inspecta said:

C'mon Diehard, i'm sure you can come up with some original fat jokes about me.....think hard....

Or hey, I know. Why don't you grow a sack and post a picture of yourself online here. I'm sure your a dreamy hunk just like our starting QB. Nothing to hide eh there batshit crazy dude?

Is it possible for you to be any weirder, or more of an asshole? Does anybody actually engage you in a real discussion? Have you ever talked real football or do you just drop in to share some of your mental dysfunction then leave to go sniff paint and masturbate to kiddy porn?

Settle down there tubby. Taking crack so early? Or drunk already? Loser.

@inspecta said:

God said the end would come like a thief in the night, so it's unlikely it will come on one prescribed date. Speaking of which, I know this solar flare is supposed to occur in 2012, but does anybody have a specific date?

The world is ending in 2012, we are all going to die! No more Brady Quinn! No more Inspecta fat ass rapping on Youtube. Shit, maybe it won't be so bad after all.

@inspecta said:

God said the end would come like a thief in the night, so it's unlikely it will come on one prescribed date. Speaking of which, I know this solar flare is supposed to occur in 2012, but does anybody have a specific date?

I am not sure that it is supposed to be a solar flare. What it is is the alignment of our sun with the middle of the Milky Way, plus a certain alignment of the planets. They say it is possible that the earth could rotate on its axis, which apparently it has done in the past. In other words, the current north and south poles would be switched so that they would line up along a new equator, and the north and south poles would then become where the current equator meets the prime meridian (somewhere off the coast of West Africa) and where the current equator crosses the international date line. (near Kiribati in the Pacific). The action of that rotation of the planet would rend apart the tectonic plates that make up the earth's crust and of course cause massive earthquakes and ice cap melting. The new equator would dissect Antarctica.

Oddly, the location of NE Ohio would not change drastically vis a vis the poles and the equator. The location that would be at the intersection of the 45th parallel and the 90th meridian would not have their "weather" change much.

That location is a place called Poniatowski, Wisconsin, which is just outside of Wausau (not far from Green Bay). And we are not that far from there.

@inspecta said:

God said the end would come like a thief in the night, so it's unlikely it will come on one prescribed date. Speaking of which, I know this solar flare is supposed to occur in 2012, but does anybody have a specific date?

December 21, I think? I know that's the date everyone points out as being the end of the world. 12/21/12

@inspecta said:

Anybody know how long it would take a tsunami to cross the atlantic once that shelf drops in the ocean?

A Tsunami like that would travel at about 500 mph, so it would only take 4-6 hours to hit Miami or Wash. D.C., NYC etc. Certainly not enough time to evacuate beyond the Appalachians.

@inspecta said:

Anybody know how long it would take a tsunami to cross the atlantic once that shelf drops in the ocean?

I'm not sure but that would be wild to see from the air.

Here is La Palma, doesn't look that big from satellite, but just think of the landslide that occurred at Mt. St. Helen's, and imagine that 3000 feet of earth sliding into the ocean. It would make the tsunami that hit Indonesia a few years back look like a drop in a bucket.