Comment on Engineer creates video game of Alaska’s Tracy Arm landslide, which generated a megatsunami
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Patrick Lynett, a USC civil engineering professor, said when it comes to natural disasters, training people how to react is important, and one way to do that is through digital work like the simulation and video game he created that depicts what happened.
I think that if you’re in a boat right next to the initiation of a 328-foot-high megatsunami, going 1,578 feet up a rock cliff, as the video portrays in the game, you’re probably just pretty much boned.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, we’re all going to die one day. At least those people got to go out like a Michael Bay movie.
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
And then the wave exploded into a fireball.