Well, yeah, 60,000 MT 300 miles off the coast would do it.

TB — 12/15/2007 10:16:54 PM (archived)

I still maintain that once you got more than a few miles inland, we're talking flash flood, and not a true "wave." I don't know what the air shock would be at that distance.

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Robert Heinlein in the L. A. Times - TB - 12/11/2007 3:16:14 AM
- Spider Robinson's article on Heinlein - TB - 12/11/2007 6:20:20 PM
  - Now that's the Heinlein I thought I knew - Eri - 12/12/2007 1:44:58 AM
    - Lazarus Long!?! - RNE - 12/14/2007 6:00:42 PM
    - Quotes - TB - 12/12/2007 4:09:30 AM
  - And if RAH is so bad, how come John Varley keeps writing homages? - Fox - 12/11/2007 6:26:25 PM
- re: Robert Heinlein in the L. A. Times - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/11/2007 3:58:26 AM
  - It seemed like a pretty even-handed piece to me. - alcaray - 12/11/2007 5:24:25 AM
    - Sure ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/11/2007 9:56:42 AM
      - re: 'Deconstructing Heinlein' - Yeti - 12/13/2007 6:58:06 PM
        
        re: 'Deconstructing Heinlein' - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/13/2007 8:34:37 PM
        
        (....did I hear someone say "gold mine"?....) - podrock - 12/14/2007 3:48:30 AM
        
        Okay, SDAI - Yeti - 12/13/2007 9:42:29 PM
      - That's not what the piece said. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/11/2007 12:11:31 PM
        
        Actually, it did. - TB - 12/11/2007 4:45:47 PM
        
        As I suspected. - Eri - 12/11/2007 5:53:04 PM
        
        It's funny how SF gets bashed by the mainstream literary folk all the time - Socrates II - 12/11/2007 6:51:21 PM
        
        Many people are intimidated by SF - Eri - 12/11/2007 10:51:56 PM
        
        Armageddon vs. Deep Impact - Socrates II - 12/12/2007 2:42:25 PM
        
        re: Armageddon vs. Deep Impact - azstrummer - 12/14/2007 3:57:24 PM
        
        Good plan. - TB - 12/15/2007 5:54:39 PM
        
        re: Good plan. - Laurie Street - 12/15/2007 7:40:42 PM
        
        Well, yeah, 60,000 MT 300 miles off the coast would do it. - TB - 12/15/2007 10:16:54 PM
        
        re: Armageddon vs. Deep Impact - Tony - 12/14/2007 5:51:30 PM
        
        re: Armageddon vs. Deep Impact - Eri - 12/12/2007 5:58:46 PM
        
        re: Armageddon vs. Deep Impact. - True. - Marcia - 12/12/2007 9:45:18 PM

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