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Mother: "here's some money, go and buy the Daily Mail"
Me: "OK" (thinks: I need to buy some cigarettes)
*returns with paper*
Me: "I don't know how you can read that crap"
Mother: "Well! You bought it!"
Me: "um"

The Mega-Tsunami of Doctor Evil

For those of you with digital TV or cable...

There's a rather fab Horizon about mega-tsunamis on BBC4 at 10pm, with more recent information on what's going on at 10:50. After watching it, I mailed one of the scientists on it asking:

I hope you'll forgive the intrusion of your time of this rather silly question that I'm sure you've been asked before.

Few can have watched the BBC Horizon programme about mega-tsunami (recently reshown on BBC Knowledge) without imagining a supervillan placing nuclear devices in the fissure at La Palma in order to hold the Eastern seaboard of the USA to ransom for, say, one beeleeon dollars. Has anyone ever considered whether this would be feasable?

This is an especial risk given that the inactive volcano to the north of the island could make very attractive housing for, say, an underground base filled with jumpsuited minions.

I would be grateful for any light you can shed...

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