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- MelvinSchlubman, on 07/10/2009, -10/+61This would block Sarah's view of Russia.
- marmotjmarmot, on 07/10/2009, -7/+33I can see a huge wave from my house!
- FeloniusMonkey, on 07/10/2009, -0/+23"At the time of the colossal wave, there were only three fishing boats anchored in the bay and amazingly only one sank, with two people losing their lives. The other boats were able to surf the crest of the tsunami."
Wow, talk about one wild ***** ride! Incidentally, the boat that did sink must've been the only one of the three with a quality anchor. - shawnbttu, on 07/10/2009, -0/+21FTA: "The other boats were able to surf the crest of the tsunami."
Badass - slapded, on 07/10/2009, -14/+29maybe it will hit wasilla
- kamikazicondon, on 07/10/2009, -1/+15I would kill for some pics
- Nothlit, on 07/10/2009, -1/+13Sarah Palin did say you can see Russia from Alaska (which is true, if only for a few small islands off the coast). It was Tina Fey, however, who said "I can see Russia from my house!"
- roflsd, on 07/10/2009, -3/+13http://img43.imageshack.us/i/1958alaskatsunami.jpg ...
- mikalveli, on 07/10/2009, -2/+11Fail:
"They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." --Sarah Palin, on her foreign policy insights into Russia, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008 - chuckDontSurf, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8I think soiling myself would've been the first thing that happened.
- schnikies79, on 07/10/2009, -1/+9There is a 1700 ft wave coming towards you. Tell me what you would have done to change it.
- KGBeats, on 07/10/2009, -16/+23Dear Tsunami,
Please hit Alaska before that bitch leaves.
Thank you,
The Age of Reason - TimtheTaxMan, on 07/10/2009, -0/+7Because she stirred up a certain base of voters that moonbats have nothing but contempt for.
- maddonkey, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6where the hell are the pics
- schnikies79, on 07/10/2009, -2/+8Way to put words in his mouth. He didn't say he was going to die and that he needs to save his soul. All he is said is "it's time to pray."
I'm sure you know this man though, along with several other Alaskans. - skinturtle, on 07/10/2009, -5/+11I really don;t understand the hatred towards Sarah Palin. She may be a little naive but how is she a bitch?
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6Dugg for "megathrust earthquakes".
Giggity. - Spytap, on 07/10/2009, -4/+10@TheInformer: You're misinformed.
"Yes, you can see Russian from Alaska."
"You can actually see Russia from Alaska."
The statement was then repeated several more times.
So yes, Sarah - not Tina fey - made that statement originally, and a 1700 ft tsunami would obstruct that view. - cire84117, on 07/10/2009, -2/+8Falcon Punch
- Fleagleman, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5Can it happen again? Are we still on Earth? Of course it freaking can.
- jsmithers, on 07/10/2009, -1/+6NOTE: FTA "caused the largest wall of water in HUMAN history".
I remember watching TV programme (possibly BBC's Horizon) that mentioned at least one FAR larger tsunami in ancient pre history. I think a few km high? It was ridiculously high anyway.
Also, there is the issue of the large underwater shelf on the side of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, that they say could collapse at any time - though very possibly not for thousands of years, and would cause a wall of water to hit the Eastern coast of the States that was about 3/4 of a mile (or km?) high. - MacBandit, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4No Alaska hit the Ocean and then the Tsunami that was generated hit back.
- MacBandit, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Agreed. I doubt the wave was cresting. More likely it was a huge swell. I also doubt that the wave itself was 1,700 feet tall. It's more likely that the swell was tremendously long carrying a lot of energy and pushed water 1,700 feet up the hillside.
- jwolcott, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4"It was 1,700 feet or 520 meters, almost twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. "
"The other boats were able to surf the crest of the tsunami."
I call *****. - TheInformer, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Can You Really See Russia From Alaska?
http://www.slate.com/id/2200155/
"In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, which means that, on a clear day, you can definitely see one from the other. (To see the view of Big Diomede from Little Diomede, check out this webcam.) The Diomede Islands are often blanketed by persistent fog, which makes visibility difficult. On a clear day, though, a person standing at sea level can see a little less than three miles across the ocean."
Can Sarah Palin really see Russia from her house?
http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/09/25/can- ...
"Any intelligent person knows that Sarah Palin was joking when she said that she could see Russia from her house. It’s pure hyperbole. But everyone in the media keeps repeating it over and over, and I’m certain that some people probably actually believe it to be true." - inactive, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3I would like to see that in person.
From the window of an airplane, that is. - madrona, on 07/10/2009, -2/+5And they survived a 1700 foot wave hitting their boat. Must have been part of an effective strategy...
- MacBandit, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4Key word here being 'Human' history. Human history is typically recorded history. I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a larger wall of water in recorded history.
I saw the same show you did however and agree that there has most definitely been bigger waves. Just not recently. - novenator, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Surfs up mate!
- Presbyterian, on 07/10/2009, -4/+6Guess what jackass?.Not everyone is an Atheist.Worry about your own family.
- Homerr, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2As an architect I heard a talk by a geologist and engineer a couple of years ago talk about the forces on Washington state from the Cascadia subduction zone and that if a megaquake hit and release all of this force the coastline would drop 6 vertical feet.
- trafficlight, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Why can't this just be a story about the tsunami wave. Why do they have to inject all the fear and *****: "Can it happen again". Of course it will ***** happen again. But we better be deathly afraid of it every day of our lives.
I can't even watch the Discovery Channel anymore. Most of the shows just a tool for spreading FUD. - shig, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2"pre history"
WTF could have possibly happened *before* history.
"ancient pre history"
Now your just ***** with people on purpose. - CrabbyLion, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Can you imagine a wave 2x the height of the Eiffel Tower? I would've died before it hit.
- HappyScrappy, on 07/10/2009, -1/+3Yes.
- skinturtle, on 07/10/2009, -3/+5I think it's a lot to with that DIGG is powered and infested with a crap load of God haters, atheists, homosexuals and genuine ass-agents who bitch about how Christians are hating against them (they call us every name under the sun) yet they turn right around and do the same thing...which makes them hypocrites...the very thing they accuse of us. That's why they don't like Sarah..because she's a woman of faith.
I don't know why I come here..I guess I'll never know..but it's like some kind of torture to sit and watch this show! - MacBandit, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Sorry, I did read your entire post but apparently your point was lost in amongst your words. It's always good to make your statement give an explanation and then reinforce your statement in conclusion.
- Doritos, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1I was watching a discovery channel show which showed a computer recreation of the wave, and no, it wasn't *****, and it didn't just push water 1,700 feet up the hillside. It was actually a huge wave, just like what you thought a tsunami looked like when you were 8 years old.
- DiggCommando, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1I would like to see that evidence. I find it doubtful that the energy from even half of a volcano collapsing would not be almost entirely dissipated by the time it crosses the Atlantic.Also, when an entire tectonic plate lurches upward relative to the neighboring one, you are talking about enormous amounts of water displacement.
- linksus, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1I honestly dont know what id be thinking..
- Oh shiiiiiiiit
- Wow
one or the other proabably. - Twenty, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Holy *****.
- MacBandit, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/single.pdf
You're assumption of earthquake Tsunamis being larger is just that, and assumption. Fault slip isn't always a large movement and frequently only affects a small area sometimes less than a mile. Also the earthquake could be caused by a slip fault rather then a subduction fault and may not cause any real rise or lower in the ocean floor. In the same line land slides are frequently quite small with very little energy to dissipate but sometimes they can involve cubic miles of earth. The amount of energy produced by either can be enormous. Also once the energy is produced it doesn't dissipate based on the distance it travels it has to impact something whether that be an ocean floor mountain chain or land. - inactive, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Batemans bay and East coast Australia has at one time had one that was 400 meters. You can thank New Zealand for that.
If that happened again, Sydney would cease to exist. - Doritos, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1Err nvm meant a different wave, not the one that the article is talking about.
- Doritos, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1This wave wasn't caused by the same things that cause normal waves. I believe it was a huge chunk of an iceberg that fell and caused the wave.
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rogue+ ...
- tallguy240, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1With that and the super-volcano in Yellowstone were all DOOMED! DOOMED I tell you.
- MacBandit, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Discovery channel has never exaggerated anything.
/s - pfhayter, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Thank you.
- Bodhinature, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1You have my assurance that nothing like that could ever ever happen again.
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