Whatzit?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I can't resist:
P.S. Since there has been an earthquake in Japan recently, I'll theorize we can expect a shake or two in California as that Pacific Plate continues its turn northward along USA's west coast ( theory of Plate Tectonics.)

[chuck]

It took something like 4-5 years for debris from the Fukushima disaster to reach the US West Coast.

Re earthquakes, Japan is bounded by two plates with subduction occurring on both sides, aka it is getting squeezed by the Pacific plate and the Eurasion plate. Most west coast activity is from the rubbing of the Pacific plate and the North American plate and a series of smaller plates squeezed between them, Explorer, Juan de Fuca, Gorda.

Most of the monsters stayed in/around Japan. The few that ventured out to places like New York, Paris, and Moscow were mostly flying monsters although Godzilla did attack New York City in 1968 (that must have been a long swim).

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You're an enjoyable fellow, Chuck.

[webenda]

It took something like 4-5 years for debris from the Fukushima disaster to reach the US West Coast.

It took something like 458 days for the first animals from the Japanese tsunami of March 11, 2011 (the cause of the Fukushima disaster) to show up on the West Coast of the US.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/scie ... ocean.html

[chuck]

Yes, some of it made it in about 18 months. Larger junks took much longer (more drag?), like some of the mostly sunken boats.

I wondered if anyone actually examined the pieces of wreckage from MH 370 for the life forms attached to it to help pin down its origins.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...........Godzilla did attack New York City in 1968 (that must have been a long swim).

Nope. He took the subway!

[chuck]

Nope. He took the subway!

Doesn't everybody!

[webenda]

This is a quarter. If anyone says it is a quarter you will be asked to think of something else. What else could a quarter be?

[robert.]

A coin, fuse, and lottery scratch off tool.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Portrait in- profile of an American leader.

[MartyE]

2 Bits? As in "Shave and a haircut"?

[rogruth]

One fourth of something.
There are many things in that category.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Solid gold in storage that backs-up and further imparts value to the silver in the coin.

[chuck]

There is no silver in modern quarters (1965 and onwards). They are copper/nickel. Same for the dime, the nickel and the half dollar. The 1$ coin is now manganese/brass and the modern penny is copper plated zinc (2.5% copper).

[chuck]

Legal tender.