How we will actually lose California?.

[Tev]

They are going to try and shoot a laser at some stuff and make a baby star form!

Livermore, California (CNN) -- Scientists at a government lab here are trying to use the world's largest laser -- it's the size of three football fields -- to set off a nuclear reaction so intense that it will make a star bloom on the surface of the Earth.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's formula for cooking up a sun on the ground may sound like it's stolen from the plot of an "Austin Powers" movie. But it's no Hollywood fantasy: The ambitious experiment will be tried for real, and for the first time, late this summer.
If they're successful, the scientists hope to solve the global energy crisis by harnessing the energy generated by the mini-star.

Sounds like fun, no? Reading on you will find that it is actually going to be a very tiny and short lived bit of star....if it even works at all.

But anyway, I always assumed that California would fall off the side of the county into the sea......or collapse into anarchy and become some post-apocalyptic land that Hollywood is fond of showing us. What do you think about our giant "star-smasher" laser?