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To: SOROS who wrote (70541)	1/4/2005 12:39:42 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Respond to of 89467

Sounds like a real downer....unless you surf. I actually saw something like that being discussed last night. I think Discovery is going to run a show about that potential (or at least Tsunamis in general) this week. When I saw the discussion my first reaction was how self absorbed we are. A killer wave hits and kills 150k people and now we're discussing how one is going to strike here. It's like the news is so slow (outside of the Asia crisis) that we need to extrapolate what would happen if a similar event happened here for drama. My next reaction was how we're taking the misery in another part of the globe and turning it into a profitable marketing piece before the bodies have even cooled. It seems pretty obvious what the outcome would be if that happened or if a major and overdue earthquake hit NY, the Mississippi river area or the west....we're all screwed. Same thing if a meteor pounds us. Talk of destruction really keeps the presses and TV station going though....it sells baby!

To: SOROS who wrote (70541)	1/4/2005 7:42:39 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

I understood that such quakes are so rare in the Atlantic that it was not worth the cost to set up a warning system......I hope the author is wrong... J.

To: SOROS who wrote (70541)	1/4/2005 5:48:02 PM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Thread seems to be 75% meaningless. Don't PM me. Let's see how it goes with less chit-chat. Perhaps some of the useful posters will return. I remain, SOROS