I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#0I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:03pm
Because I'm a bit done being the Norma Shearer of the board today, I've turned my thoughts to the ridiculousness of the weather here in NYC.
Do you think THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is coming true? Have we, as Dennis Quaid so eloquently put it, reached a critical desalinization point?
Is the big wave a-comin'?
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#1re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:05pm
I knew, when I saw the subject line, who had posted this 
. Whenever I hear this line of dialogue now, it's not in Quaid's voice, but yours, my dear robbie. Slightly drunk and loud and in a Mexican bar....
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#2re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:06pm
In all seriousness, it's totally possible. I thought I was going to get lifted and tossed into the side of a building on my way to work this morning.
And tossing me is no easy feat.
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#3re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:08pm
Mister Singer...are you okay? And...IS THE PUG SAFE?
As for all the climatic changes, it is quite interesting. Isn't there a volcano erupting in Alaska, too???
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#4re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:09pm
I think we have. If you read the book The Day After Tomorrow was based on, the real danger lies in extreme shifts of weather.
The Coming Global Superstorm
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:10pm
I think the most disturbing possibility of all is that Goth may in fact be right.
IT'S END TIMES, BITCHES!
CALL KIRK CAMERON!!
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#6re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:12pmI'm always up for a good Rapture.
#7re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:14pm
Kirk Cameron! LMAO!
"And tossing me is no easy feat."
Not what I heard!
I am all toasty in my bed--and VERY SCARED TO LEAVE FOR WORK SOON!
#8re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:15pm
As a closet science freak, I have to admit, I'm actually borderline terrified about the climatic events of the past year or two. We're dangerously overdue for several major cyclic climatic/geologic scenarios that have occurred with some regularity of the history of the planet, not the least of which is the reversal of Earth's magnetic poles, which has happened, on average, every 500,000 years since the birth of the planet.
It last happened 700,000 years ago, and the current data is incredibly persuasive of the fact that we are ever-closer to getting back on schedule.
Git scurred, y'all.
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#9re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:17pmjaily, dont scare me like that.... it is so windy here in NC today. I almost got blown over.
#10re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:18pmWell some psychic did predict an earthquake for NYC. Hold onto your tits, folks!
#11re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:19pmI'm sorry, I raptured last night, so another this soon just isn't acceptable!
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#12re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:22pm
It was Edgar Cayce, Jerby, and it's not such a crackpot prediction.
This is an excerpt from one of my old USGS newsletters: (That's the US Geological Survey, for those of you who don't know that already)
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Mid-plate earthquakes -- those occurring in the interiors of plates -- are much less frequent than those along plate boundaries and more difficult to explain. Earthquakes along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States are most likely related in some way to the westward movement of the North American Plate away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a continuing process begun with the break-up of Pangaea. However, the causes of these infrequent earthquakes are still not understood.
East Coast earthquakes, such as the one that struck Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886 are felt over a much larger area than earthquakes occurring on the West Coast, because the eastern half of the country is mainly composed of older rock that has not been fractured and cracked by frequent earthquake activity in the recent geologic past. Rock that is highly fractured and crushed absorbs more seismic energy than rock that is less fractured. The Charleston earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of about 7.0, was felt as far away as Chicago, more than 1,300 km to the northwest, whereas the 7.1-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquakes was felt no farther than Los Angeles, about 500 km south. The most widely felt earthquakes ever to strike the United States were centered near the town of New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811 and 1812. Three earthquakes, felt as far away as Washington D.C., were each estimated to be above 8.0 in magnitude. Most of us do not associate earthquakes with New York City, but beneath Manhattan is a network of intersecting faults, a few of which are capable of causing earthquakes. The most recent earthquake to strike New York City occurred in 1985 and measured 4.0 in magnitude, and a pair of earthquakes (magnitude 4.0 and 4.5) shook Reading, Pennsylvania, in January 1994 causing minor damage.
Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you.
Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#13re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:23pm
It's a beautful yet cold day in Chicago.
#14re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:24pm
I watched the special on the magnetic poles a year or two ago. It was interesting, and at the same time kind of freaked me out.
And I hope that we aren't in for more of this kind of weather. certainly can't take another hurricane. They actually had a tropical storm at the end of this December. I'm scared about the upcoming hurricane season.
#15re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:24pmAnother "science freak" here In New England it just should NOT be pushing 60 degrees in January! Today feels more like March.
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Conan O'Brien
#16re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:26pmI live in Louisiana...and it was warm enough to wear shorts on Christmas day [which was so wierd because it was 25 degrees on Christmas Eve last year]. Our weather has been so wierd...going from temperatures in the 40s to the 80s the next day. This week it has been in the 50s, but last week it was in the 70s.
#17re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:30pm
"And I hope that we aren't in for more of this kind of weather."
Unfortunately, hon, I think (and most of the established scientific community agrees) not only *are* we in for more, it's only going to get worse.
Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you.
Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.
#18re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:30pmI think Mary Poppins just flew by my window....or was it Addy?
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:31pmAlso strange I am loking out my window and the clouds are movine East to West, (at a rather scary clip!) The normal pattern is West to East.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#20re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:34pm
"not only *are* we in for more, it's only going to get worse."
That's what scares me. I mean...how many hurricanes hit Florida last year, 5? Then two hit Louisiana this year. This season had the most named hurricanes ever.
I'm really afraid for this summer and upcoming hurricane season. I shudder to think of going through the Katrina and Rita nightmare again.
#21re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:36pm
This may sound callow, but...you may want to consider moving, then, if you don't have any deep sentimental ties to the land you live on.
It ain't gonna git prettier in the coming seasons, darlin'.
Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you.
Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.
#22re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:41pm
Well, I live in Baton Rouge, which is 45 minutes north of New Orleans. So, we weren't hit as hard as New Orleans obviously. We had some power outages...school was out for a week, downed trees...but nothing too bad. But it was still hard for all of us to watch and hear about what happened because we love New Orleans and have friends there. Not only that, the whole Katrina issue probably just made the entire country think that the Louisiana government are idiots, which im not inclined to dissagree with right now.
We tons of New Orleans kids come to our high school from September until the beginning of January. Most of them went back home though, so things are finally getting back to some semblance of normal here.
#23re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:41pm
We were just having this conversation last night.
We were discussing how when people move to Seattle, we always joke about the rain, but it's never as bad as all that. Yet, for the past couple of years, whenever we talk to newcomers about the present weather, we end up qualifying it with a "it's not usually like this."
It used to be that we got a steady mist. Now we're getting downpours. It used to be that our summers were warm, but it always cooled off at night, therefore most places not having airconditioning. Now, we're all wishing for A/C in August.
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#24re: I think we've reached a critical desalinization point.
Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:44pmAw, well. Didn't Art Bell say Planet X was supposed to fly by and destroy everything by now, anyway?
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