Viewing cataclysmic events

[Rain Man]

Which of the following would you be most interested in seeing as a spectator? Assume that you would be experiencing the event via some sort of magical technology where you can be on-site at any location you choose, and that you would be safe from harm.

Please accept my apologies ahead of time if anyone finds this offensive. I'm thinking more in terms of property damage than loss of life, so please think of the physical event as opposed to anything gory.

Poll hurtling toward you at breakneck speed, destroying everything in its path.

[SLAG]

That was not at breakneck speed... Id say Granny in a one wheel wheelchair is faster than that poll

[dirk digler]

You suck at poles

[Thig Lyfe]

Why isn't the second half of the Chiefs-Eagles game on the list?

[Rain Man]

Okay, perhaps a better explanation is that the poll was coming slowly but inexorably, like the molasses in the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.*


*Okay, the molasses moved quickly, but I'm all about creating a visual image here, and sometimes you have to ignore key facts to make a point.

[Rain Man]

Why isn't the second half of the Chiefs-Eagles game on the list?


The trauma is still too fresh.




I debated between Hurricane Katrina, the New Madrid Earthquake, and the Krakatoa explosion. While Krakatoa would be cool, I think New Madrid would be more interesting. Watching the Mississippi flow backwards for a couple of days would be quite intriguing, especially during those few moments when the flow actually reversed.

[SLAG]

Why isn't the second half of the Chiefs-Eagles game on the list?


I was there I felt Like My House just got blown up


Oh wait


It did

[Rain Man]

Yeah. Let's assume that you can rewind.

[Dunit35]

I would have loved to have seen the Atomic bomb aftermath or the Titanic.

But then again, I couldve gotten a hold of some cheap gear following the Katrina aftermath.

[JBucc]

I'll go with the A-bomb, but I'd wanna see Mt. Vesuvius blowing up too

[Dunit35]

I hear there was some easy ass to be scored at the SuperDome, too.

Damn and I always wanted the clap too.

[morphius]

I'd have to go with a super volcano explosion, the expected comet explosion in Tunguska, or hell, since we are talking magic here, how about the mars size object that crashed into Earth to create the moon.

At least those would be my top 3 I guess.

[Rain Man]

Oh, hey. That Siberian strike would've been a good one to add.

[Ultra Peanut]

This is actually kind of tough. I'm thinking the New Madrid earthquake sort of hit close to home (geddit?), as well as being a staggering event of epic magnitude, so it's a leading candidate.

The Asian tsunami is another one. Just such a mindblowingly HUGE geological event, that would be both horrifying and somewhat entrancing to see from various locations. None of the video and photos that are available even do it justice, as shocking and awe-inspiring as some of them are.

I'll go with the A-bomb, but I'd wanna see Mt. Vesuvius blowing up tooAnd the subsequent destruction of Pompeii? Interesting.

[chefsos]

Setting all goulishness aside, I think it would be WTC. It's just amazing that two buildings that big could just crumble that way, in that city setting, with debris and dust racing up and down the streets.

[Matt Helm]

I saw one event on film, over and over again, and one in real time.

The USS Forrestal fire was used as a training film for years in the Navy.

The collision between the USS Belknap and the USS John F. Kennedy was a tremendous accident. We spent the night attempting to assist in fighting the fire on the Belknap, the whole ship seemed to be on fire. There was a few crewmembers on the foc'sle and some on the fantail. I don't remember how many died.

[trndobrd]

Could I watch the Apocolypse as described in the book of Revelations? I've always been curious about the role of John Elway.