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To: Snowshoe who wrote (1896)	7/26/2000 4:43:24 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 12231

Snowshoe, you shouldn't worry one minute about melting ice raising the sea level. As it does so, you can just move uphill over a few decades. Even in a wheelchair you should be able to keep your head above water. However, you should not delay. You should move today [or in the next week or three]. The wetness you need to worry about is big rock things crashing into an ocean near you. Take a look at the moon through a telescope or something and you'll notice some craters. Those are caused by things bumping into the moon. Notice how many there are and how big so many of them are. When rocks and stuff bump into earth, they make a big splash [usually a splash because the place is so wet]. The wave travels quickly over the ocean to where you live. Humans should live 100m above sea-level [to improve survival prospects by 95% in the event of a random splash]. Most splashes would only cause teeny ripples. But every 100 years or two, there is quite a big thing bumps into earth. Every 1000 years, there is pretty hefty splashing going on in local areas. Every 10000 years, there are a LOT of people who wish they'd stayed up in the hills instead of taking up fishing on the coast. Los Angeles is a sitting duck. QUALCOMM is cunningly up on a mesa, well away from all but the largest waves. Irwin Jacobs sure is a cunning, forward-looking guy. Even his house has for decades been way up the hill [I believe]. When QUALCOMM has got Globalstar up and running and everyone has a WWeb device, oceanic level sensors will be constantly monitoring levels and reporting back to a wave-predicting computer. The computer will calculate the expected wave-height for everywhere, then transmit a "Time To Panic" signal to everyone in the splash zone. It will be able to do that because SnapTrack will know where all devices are. Suddenly, people will hear their WWeb device over-riding the 'Silent Switch' which keeps it quiet at movies, funerals and important meetings and it will scream "HEAD FOR THE HILLS - YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO GET HIGHER THAN 145 METRES ABOVE SEA-LEVEL". That will cause traffic jams on many Los Angeles freeways as everyone heads for the HOLLYWOOD sign. The price of helicopters will rise quickly. Melting ice is boring! Don't worry about it. Mqurice

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