I would be curious about non-seismic earthquakes.
Unfortunately xkcd jumps from magnitude 11 straight to magnitude 15 in his short video, but 11 already looks hard to survive.
PS- I’m very sorry for all the typos. Typing on a phone keyboard is horrible.
PPS- The 'lets rob the house because it has a massive basement bunker’ seems to be most of the plot to ‘Dracula 2000’ ( Besides Jeri Ryan ) .
Maybe meaning Intensity, not Magnitude scale? And even then I would suspect the builder was thinking to himself “right, you gonna be around to sue after THAT happens?”
Not quite at that level, but the hurricane-resistant doors we had installed in our house in Miami would, I expect, have taken a while to breach. They opened outward, and were a combination of hollow-core steel and double-paned impact resistant safety glass, with decorative steel grillwork on either side of the glass. I’d bet a tidy sum of money that your average schmucks in tactical gear wouldn’t be able to breach the doors through impacts; they would almost certainly be able to shoot through the glass, but it would take multiple shots to clear some space.
Funnily enough, when we were shopping around for the doors and windows, the next grade up from what we picked was marketed as, “blast-proof.” Seemed excessive to me, but it is Miami.
You are probably right in as much as I’ve never had so much money that I could just throw it at problems and fears. This is along that line… but slightly different.
Do you remember back in the day when bank branches had that super-super thick glass in front of the tellers? It was what… 3 to 4 inches thick? An acquaintance who was a volunteer fireman went to a house where no one was home that was on fire and tried to get inside. The door probably one of your massively re-enforced door with no windows so… no way in. He and his crew moved around to the beach side and tried to get in that way. No dice. The entire beach front window was that bank teller glass… and even sledge hammers bounced off of it!
Long story short, he and his crew had no choice… so they pulled back to the street sprayed water on the house and basically let it burn. There was no way in… what could they do?
Well apparently Straight Dope considers him well known, but I personally don’t pay any attention to these right-wing nuts so think he belongs here:
Is it true that there will be a memorial to him played all next week on, “Doctor Pimple Popper”?
Is it true that Utah will now be lording this over PA for the near future as proof that they are the better shots?
Is it true that this will not be affecting the guest list at Kelce and Taylor’s wedding at all?
Is it true that all of Taylor Swift’s new CDs dropped after today will have an unlisted track of, “Pop Goes The Weasel” ?
I guess that I’ll have to buy a copy of “The Weekly World News” to know for sure…
Just putting a bookmark here.
Does anyone have him on their list?
Oh Goodness! His for-profit healthcare insurance provider is screwing him around so they won’t have to pay for treatment.
What about all the other millions of people who are getting screwed over by their for-profit healthcare insurance provider? Will Trump help them too?
(Narrator; He will not)
What do you want to bet Trump doesn’t help Adams, either.
“It’ll be there in…two weeks.”
Come on. A nice picture of Trump autographed with a sharpie is a kind of help, right?
Adams is a fool, and desperate. I would never accept help from trump: he would only make matters worse.
Now I’m rooting for trump to help him.
Banks had been in prison since 1982 after shooting 14 people, and killing 13, including his own children, during a rampage in Wilkes-Barre. At time, it was considered one of the worst mass murders in American history. He was convicted of 12 counts of first-degree murder and one count of third-degree murder.
Banks had been drinking at a party late at night before using an AR-15 rifle to start the rampage at his home.
Five victims were his children, ages one to six. Four more were the mothers of his children. Other victims were bystanders, including an 11-year-old child who sometimes stayed with his family, a seven-year-old child and a teenager who saw Banks leaving his home armed with the rifle and recognized him.
Wait, was this guy living in some kind of compound with his multiple “wives” and their children?!? What an incredible disaster.
They were multiple girlfriends, not wives living in sort of a harem.
Here us a documentary about him:
Was his last-minute turnaround enough? Do we believe in end-of-life redemption? [I don’t, really. Fuck Lee Atwater.]
Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies | CNN Politics
I was debating whether i still had the energy to wish him SIH, or whether there are too many others (sadly, still alive) who need that energy more.
Honestly, it was a close call. But you know, the Iraq War and all that.