John Hopkins on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:32:31 +0200 (CEST) |
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>Could a terrorism theme park be not far away? /jc > >+ From a UCSD press release > >August 22, 2006 >"Operation College Freedom" Hi Jordan -- While I also find this next step in the militaristic show of force on campus repugnant, those of you docked and living in SoCal (NoCal as well) might well take a bit of personal heed to the very real event statistically just over the immediate horizon (it stays an immediate possibility until it happens!) -- that of massive geo-tectonic activity. As a geophysicist, I couldn't rationalize staying in the LA basin area, working an a building on Wilshire Blvd with giant auto springs holding it up in the basement and every other week, the strange precursor rumblings that was first thought to be a herd of morbidly obese amurikans thundering down the hallway outside my office. If you thought that Katrina was a big deal, or 911, or the Iraq War for that matter, you will be overwhelmed by the potential of large-scale tectonics. Doubtful that even numerous DHS practices will help much of anything except for the military itself, but you might consider making a locative project out of the idea of hiking east out of the heavily populated costal areas assuming that all elevated roads will be collapsed, and that you will have to carry all your water, food, and weapons to stay in possession of both, with you -- at least as far as the Arizona border. It won't be a theme park, it'll be REAL LIFE! Cheers John # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net