pete's
list of scary scales, themselves ranked in order of scariness, which rank
stuff that is potentially scary or dangerous, with an addendum suggesting
other scales that should be implemented:
1 - torino scale (asteroid impact danger/severity)
2 - ines (international nuclear event scale; radiation events)
3 - zay's numeric speed scale (meteor's relative motion to you as it burns
up
in atmosphere. nota bene: if it doesn't appear to be moving, then it's
coming
right at you)
4 - richter scale (earthquakes)
5 - fujita scale (tornadoes)
6 - saffir/simpson (hurricanes)
7 - terror alert scale (see tom ridge for details)
8 - mercalli scale (less popular, also earthquakes, but not their pure
power,
rather their visible impact)
9 - CMAQ (air quality)
10 - beaufort scale (wind speed)
11 - the dee snowstorm scale (snowfall intensity)
12 - noaa space scales (radio blackout; geomagnetic storms; solar radiation)
appendix a, some other scales that should be invented, with suggested
scalability:
road rage quotient (color coded)
house egging probability (geographic overlay)
fart stank scale (1-5)
drunk scale (1-5)
insanity scale (let's go 1-10 on this for nuanced measurements)
postgame riot scale (also let's go 1-10 with one being women getting hair
pulled because they were wearing wrong jersey and ten being overturned,
burning cars and at least one fatality)