I live in Gelsenkirchen-Buer; a long ways from Berlin but I would love to visit that city sometime.
On 4/2/09, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Douglas wrote: >> Yes, I did. And thanks for the spelling help. I am dyslexic and really >> suck at spelling. Mostly the Spelling checker helps out but in this >> case I was sleepy and could not find right spelling for the word. > > Spellcheckers can't catch right words in the wrong place, and > a 'big commit' could have been slang for something like people > getting together to do something, which made no sense in > context. > >> Does >> not help living in Germany and never seeing much English ether. > > Where? I live in Berlin. > >> I did mean big, But, I do acknowledge that for it do be big enough, I >> think it would kill the whole planet. If say some bit of planet that >> got smashed up at the beginning of the solar system found its way to >> Earth. Or maybe a huge flock of them: would that keep it from totally >> destroying the Earth? > > Deliberate comet strikes figure in some Mars terraforming > scenarios, but Mars starts out uninhabitable and making it > even more so for a short time seems acceptable. On the > other hand, the atmosphere of Earth might burn small > comets before they hit the ground. > > 'Waterworldforming' Earth would have to be a deliberate > act, and it is hard to see a reason why. As acts of war > go, it is silly. > > Chris replied to me: >> > Ah. Still I don't see introducing enough water for that. >> >> What if it hit directly on a polar ice cap, causing all the ice to melt? > > The antarctic covers roughly 3% of earth, so even if all > of it melts, we're talking about less than 100 meters > globally. That would be a global disaster, and it could > kill civilization as we know it (perhaps even humanity), > but it would leave plenty of dry land. > > Onno > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- Douglas E Knapp Why do we live? _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
