My cunning plan involves a stolen small nuclear device and the island of La Palma
First I need to obtain a small nuclear device, briefcase sized preferably, but a suitcase will suffice. I then take it deep into the cave system under La Palma. There I will sit, finger on button, and make my list of outrageous demands. If they are not met, well...
"the western flank of the Cumbre Vieja, with a mass of approximately 1.5 x1015 kg, could slide into the ocean. This could then potentially generate a giant wave which they termed a "megatsunami" around 650–900 m high in the region of the islands. The wave would radiate out across the Atlantic and inundate the eastern seaboard of North America including the American, the Caribbean and northern coasts of South America some six to eight hours later. They estimate that the tsunami will have waves possibly 160 ft (49 m) or higher causing massive devastation along the coastlines. Modelling suggests that the tsunami could inundate up to 25 km (16 mi) inland - depending upon topography."

Therefore I would become an international supervillian, with my own island fortress.
(Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 5:47, 15 replies)

So...
What are your demands?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 6 Jul 2012, 7:31, closed)

my demands?
A Ginger Homeland
(Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 17:29, closed)

Lacks ambition.
I'd suggest you don't post this on twitter though, you could get nicked.
(username failed moderation, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 8:37, closed)

I demand that you learn to use the <sup> tag.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 8:48, closed)

What's sup, bro?

( Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 9:04, closed)

you stole my idea!

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 9:46, closed)

"with a mass of approximately 1.5 x1015 kg"
So that's a mass of one and a half tonnes. Watch out America!
(Discocat is bringing sexy back, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 9:47, closed)

^this^
You beat me to it. I really don't know what he meant there. It can't be 1.5X10^1015, I feel that would be much larger than the mass of the universe.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 9:57, closed)

I think he means
1.5x10¹⁵kg; the mass of the Earth is about 5.97 × 10²⁴kg.

EDIT: Wikipedia says that the mass of the visible universe is somewhere in the region of 3.14 ×10⁵⁴ to 3.35 ×10⁵⁴kg.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 10:05, closed)

"Wagon Wheels"
We still much bigger in my day....
(TheManofScience, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 11:49, closed)

You've been reading that BBC article about Doggerland, haven't you?

( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 10:58, closed)

Your own island fortress
that you have just blown up with a nuclear bomb this is?

Cunning

n t
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 11:48, closed)

Hello
Yoda.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 14:40, closed)

Strictly speaking 'half' an island fortress
Assuming the nuke was powerful enough to trigger the fault on La Palma, but not so powerful as to vaporise the entire land mass, the vulcanologists' assumption is that the western side of the island will slide into the Atlantic and create the mega tsunami.
And I, for one, welcome our new island overlord.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sat 7 Jul 2012, 19:17, closed)

well no, that wouldn't work
why would anyone give me money/whatever I ask for AFTER I had carried out my threat?
(Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Mon 9 Jul 2012, 10:03, closed)