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totoneila on June 30, 2006 - 4:48am

Hello Don in Colorado,

If they do-- it will be unintentional--but of course that won't make you feel any better. I am no geologist, but setting off all those nukes might possibly wreck the surrounding water tables or aquifers with earthquakes and ground settling. Maybe jumpstart a volcano too? Having plenty of local oil, but suddenly having no nearby water seems like a bad tradeoff to me.

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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Don in Colorado on June 30, 2006 - 7:20pm

I kind of like the volcano idea, Bob.

I built my house out of concrete-reinforced rastra block. I think it could survive the concussion of nuclear blasts on the other side of the Grand Mesa, but I still need uncontaminated water, and too much dust from nuclear fallout might really make my passive solar windows inoperative.

Maybe we should all move to Tahiti ...

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