> I learnt all this from the BBC's excellent "Horizon" series of documentaries. Some time within the next three or so centuries, the island of La Palma will erupt, causing half of the volcano to slip into the sea. The sheer force of this willl create a tidal wave so large it will travel the whole width of the Atlantic to the Eastern coast of the US, where it will cause devastation on a scale never seen before.

Hmm, yes...terrible news, except that Horizon seems solely to come up with more and more ways for everyone on the planet to die. If I remember rightly, within the next few years not only will a supervolcano erupt in Yellowstone Park, wiping out most of America (does Horizon have some sort of a vendetta against America?) but the world will also be flung by a black hole into the outer reaches of space.

Phil-"Well, that's something to look forward to...yes, it would be cool to surf a mundo wave, but your problems are only BEGINNING when you fall over"-bee