93,000 Americans killed since war on terror began...

Here's a reference:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/03.16/air.html

The proof or disproof is left to the student.

 

Is that how Archimedes moved the earth?
He was famous for his screw and said that
he could move the earth if it was firm enough.

 

Sorry but I'm hardly going to listen to that Pikey establishment ;o)

 

John Barnes' novel "Mother of Storms" deals with a catastrophic release of
methane into the atmosphere due to a missile strike on the clathrate beds
under the Arctic Ocean. About 173 billion metric tonnes of methane...

 

pseudoplatypus wrote

Does that predate Don't Pick the Flowers by I can't remember who ?
Because if it doesn't then it wasn't an original idea by any means.

 

If it's a Harley you'd never know the difference... Well, perhaps its
handling would improve...

 

I was sure that was in Central America but there you go, it was in
Cameroon

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Nyos.html

 

DF Jones. Also known as "Denver Is Missing". Same sort of thing, oil drill
hits a "gas pocket", gas escapes, causes havoc. Predates "Mother of Storms"
by 20-odd years, but the science is crap, and MoS deals specifically with
the methane clathrates that were under discussion.

 

pseudoplatypus wrote

Nitrogen as I recall. The sign you were about to die was a nasty
coppery taste as the tale was told.

Which is good news.

Easy to say about SF with hindsight.

pedant

 

That was it. I always thought the coppery taste was supposed to be fear.

Ageist ****.

Hindsight is just one of those things I'm not afraid to use.

MWHID

 

Easily countered by celebrating a "no burrito day" in Mexico.

 

pseudoplatypus wrote

Yet you still ride a Drifter.

 

That's "retro". And "ironic".

 

pseudoplatypus wrote

I am aware of that.

 

Apart from the mudguards, of course, which are "plastic".

 

Ask me do I give a shite.