Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: American War a dystopic novel Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 18:12:27 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:12:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5f39a9147b6ab92bc2a954f2ca70ea16"; logging-data="3684610"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/bIwC9PgI/RPIfNt6Gr51J" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ccBkY4EtmjJIzVqk4Gv0t3xnE4o= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2213 The Horny Goat wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:17:02 -0400, Kevrob wrote: > >> I remember Jack Kirby's take on Earth: After Disaster - >> "Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth." >> >> The Great Lakes will have merged and Hudson's Bay gets surrounded by land. > > I'm going to have to look that one up since if Erie and Ontario merge > that's a major event (not to mention Superior which is 150-200 meters > further above see level) since those two are connected by Niagara > Falls (which is about a 75 meter difference between top and bottom) > The other lakes are all about 100m above Ontario, with Superior the highest by a few meters. To join them all sea level would have to rise by the equivalent of melting three and a half to four times as much ice as exists on earth. So you need massive subsidence in which case there's no point in worrying about survivors. William Hyde