Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:05:41 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: the earth's tilt
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Candy Madigan wrote:
>
> OK, which of you writers is going to write this 'end of the world' story?
>
> It sounds like you've almost got the 'science' worked out.

"Never destroy the Earth in the first chapter.  You're sure to need it
later." -- Douglas Adams

If you want to wipe out the Earth, or just civilization, a pole shift is
'way overcomplicated.  Personally, if I wanted to mess things up, I'd
use a big meteorite or an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano.

BTW, the first real calculation of the effects of a giant meteor hitting
the Earth, including the idea of "nuclear winter" and the possibility
that a meteorite might have wiped out the dinosaurs, was in the March,
1966 issue of Analog.  (I remember it because that's when I started
buying Analog every month.)

I love SF!

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."