I guess I got a pretty good climate here in the Netherlands, I'd never too hot and hardly ever really cold. I don't even have an air conditioner as it hardly ever gets so hot that I'd use it.
It rains enough for the land to be green and fertile, but we don't have storms that cause damage. No dangerous earthquakes or vulcanism around or anything about nature that I should worry about.
or anything about nature that I should worry about.
Not even rising sea levels due to global warming?
The Netherlands is geographically a very low and flat country, with about 26% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level, and only about 50% of its land exceeding one metre above sea level.
Now the threat to sea levels from global warming is minimal in your lifetime, but even a small asteroid landing in the North Sea could cause a Tsunami that could effectively wipe your country out. That could happen at any time.
Yes we have the NEO programme, but no effective means to stop an incoming.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
A small asteroid landing on my head could also kill me, since the north sea is not that big I doubt that either will happen in my lifetime. The chance to get hit by lightning is a multitude. And then still, if it would, I am not that close to the shore so will have plenty of time to get to higher grounds, and those I do have close enough. Even by bicycle carrying all children I would be easily able to get there on time.
A small asteroid landing on my head could also kill me,
No that would be a meteorite, of which there are multitudes every year falling to ground.
The Vaalserberg is a hill with a height of 322.4 metres (1,058 ft) above sea level and the highest point in mainland Netherlands in the southern end.
I have no idea where you live, but the thought of being stranded a couple of hundred feet above a flooded country with no food or shelter does not appeal to me.
I'm glad to hear that you have evacuation plans in place should they be necessary. No mention of your dear wife, I trust she will trail behind on her own bike?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
So fortunately you could escape from your misery and remain indoors.
It was a matter of returning indoors following a dawn run, and then remaining, Sir. :-)
I don't do the morning run thing but I too stay inside alot during the Summer months, it's just too hot!
Maybe you should head down to the beach occasionally...or maybe not. People might say you're all wet.
I do that sometimes but not as often as you might think, it's hot and full of sand and I prefer 'working' on my computers. 'Working' in my case involves mostly just logging into each one a couple of times per day to ensure they are still crunching and moving them from project to project as the whim hits me. Most are to the point that they just crunch 24/7 and don't need anything done to keep them going, MS can change that sometimes though depending on their updates, I have rolled some back to Win7 to avoid some of the Win10 update problems though as it still works for crunching. There is also always Linux if I have to, after all all most of my pc's do is crunch.
So a meteorite landing on my head would not kill me but would create a tsunami, you think highly of me
First of all I doubt that a tsunami would be our biggest concern if this meteorite that would land in the north sea would create the massive tsunami required to get 3m+ hight at where I live (100km+ from the ocean). The north sea is rather shallow, with an average dept of only 94 meters.
It would be more likely to get to where I live if it would hit much further to the north, as further up north the ocean can get to a depth of around 3km (global average is 4.2km). But then still England and Norway would take the mother-load. When it comes from further away, the energy lost per pm traveled inland is lower since a wave will at that point be more linear in movement. So that will also make sure the wave would get much further.
So lets assume the meteorite would hit further up north (also devastating parts of England, Norway, Greenland, Canada and the USA).
If I would need to take a bike she would already be at work with a car on a location most probably being on high enough grounds, and close enough to even higher ground. Then I also live well above sea level so I would not be so scared at all (rather close to Germany actually). So I think there will be plenty of places to go to escape a that tsunami. And the advantage of a tsunami is generally that the water also retreats back into the ocean.
And we do have plenty rivers that will take that water back.
So likely going up a few floors will be sufficient, wait a few hours and I can go about walking through the mud and debris left behind.
More likely is that I'd go somewhere higher ground and wait for things to become safe and then return home to see the damage. I would not expect my house to collapse, perhaps knock some walls down that do not carry the construction likely leaving me with an intact attic at the very least, where we'd be able to sleep under a roof.
Flooding would be far more likely from a river going out of boundaries then any other cause.
Sir Rodney Ffing
I don't do the morning run thing but I too stay inside alot during the Summer months, it's just too hot!
mikey wrote:Sir Rodney Ffing
Maybe you should head down to the beach occasionally...or maybe not. People might say you're all wet.
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I guess I got a pretty good
I guess I got a pretty good climate here in the Netherlands, I'd never too hot and hardly ever really cold. I don't even have an air conditioner as it hardly ever gets so hot that I'd use it.
It rains enough for the land to be green and fertile, but we don't have storms that cause damage. No dangerous earthquakes or vulcanism around or anything about nature that I should worry about.
I am dumbfounded. Well, more
I am dumbfounded. Well, more than usual I mean. I actually saw a baby's belly-button today that looked very close to this shape :
Cheers, Mike.
P.S. It was an inney ....
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
almost like if the baby had a
almost like if the baby had a baby in the belly.
or anything about nature that
Not even rising sea levels due to global warming?
Now the threat to sea levels from global warming is minimal in your lifetime, but even a small asteroid landing in the North Sea could cause a Tsunami that could effectively wipe your country out. That could happen at any time.
Yes we have the NEO programme, but no effective means to stop an incoming.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
A small asteroid landing on
A small asteroid landing on my head could also kill me, since the north sea is not that big I doubt that either will happen in my lifetime. The chance to get hit by lightning is a multitude. And then still, if it would, I am not that close to the shore so will have plenty of time to get to higher grounds, and those I do have close enough. Even by bicycle carrying all children I would be easily able to get there on time.
A small asteroid landing on
No that would be a meteorite, of which there are multitudes every year falling to ground.
I have no idea where you live, but the thought of being stranded a couple of hundred feet above a flooded country with no food or shelter does not appeal to me.
I'm glad to hear that you have evacuation plans in place should they be necessary. No mention of your dear wife, I trust she will trail behind on her own bike?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RandyC wrote:mikey wrote:Sir
I do that sometimes but not as often as you might think, it's hot and full of sand and I prefer 'working' on my computers. 'Working' in my case involves mostly just logging into each one a couple of times per day to ensure they are still crunching and moving them from project to project as the whim hits me. Most are to the point that they just crunch 24/7 and don't need anything done to keep them going, MS can change that sometimes though depending on their updates, I have rolled some back to Win7 to avoid some of the Win10 update problems though as it still works for crunching. There is also always Linux if I have to, after all all most of my pc's do is crunch.
So a meteorite landing on my
So a meteorite landing on my head would not kill me but would create a tsunami, you think highly of me
First of all I doubt that a tsunami would be our biggest concern if this meteorite that would land in the north sea would create the massive tsunami required to get 3m+ hight at where I live (100km+ from the ocean). The north sea is rather shallow, with an average dept of only 94 meters.
It would be more likely to get to where I live if it would hit much further to the north, as further up north the ocean can get to a depth of around 3km (global average is 4.2km). But then still England and Norway would take the mother-load. When it comes from further away, the energy lost per pm traveled inland is lower since a wave will at that point be more linear in movement. So that will also make sure the wave would get much further.
So lets assume the meteorite would hit further up north (also devastating parts of England, Norway, Greenland, Canada and the USA).
If I would need to take a bike she would already be at work with a car on a location most probably being on high enough grounds, and close enough to even higher ground. Then I also live well above sea level so I would not be so scared at all (rather close to Germany actually). So I think there will be plenty of places to go to escape a that tsunami. And the advantage of a tsunami is generally that the water also retreats back into the ocean.
And we do have plenty rivers that will take that water back.
So likely going up a few floors will be sufficient, wait a few hours and I can go about walking through the mud and debris left behind.
More likely is that I'd go somewhere higher ground and wait for things to become safe and then return home to see the damage. I would not expect my house to collapse, perhaps knock some walls down that do not carry the construction likely leaving me with an intact attic at the very least, where we'd be able to sleep under a roof.
Flooding would be far more likely from a river going out of boundaries then any other cause.