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I wonder if there will be dinosaurs again...ryanrich wrote:End of days my backside. I have to actually laugh at these nuts on Facebook going on about that. Plate tectonics have been around for millions of years yet now it's armageddon? Riiiiight...
yes, really.... energy just keeps building up and building up and one day all this pent up energy is released and is more catastrophic than what it would have been if the energy was released in earlier....Siemens wrote:Not really, no.
Japan had numerous earthquakes before the big on struck. Also other small earthquakes has known to have happened without earthquakes prior for years. Meaning that the longer you go without and earthquake does NOT indicate the size of the earthquake. It's completely irrelevant. However it can happen that a massive earthquake does happen out of the blue it's just not necessarily always related to time.KatrynKat wrote:yes, really.... energy just keeps building up and building up and one day all this pent up energy is released and is more catastrophic than what it would have been if the energy was released in earlier....Siemens wrote:Not really, no.
Only if I am not carefulPrime wrote:Tribble, why cross the road, you could get hit by a car?
Not having an earthquake is more serious in the long run. the longer you go without a quake or tremor, the more serious it will be when it hits.
Yeah well, whatever sells papersGreyWolf wrote:Just wanted to add my 2c on the Fukushima plant. Basically there is so much BS flying around the media, 2 weeks worth of washing wont get the stink off.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31 ... _of_facts/
Check links at the bottom for more.
I am so pissed off about how the media has treated this whole thing. Nuclear power for the WIN!
Yes, somewhat. Fact still remains, prolonged earthquake free periods are worse in the long run.CapNemo wrote:Depends on the tectonics of the area as well KK
Siemens wrote:Japan had numerous earthquakes before the big on struck. Also other small earthquakes has known to have happened without earthquakes prior for years. Meaning that the longer you go without and earthquake does NOT indicate the size of the earthquake. It's completely irrelevant. However it can happen that a massive earthquake does happen out of the blue it's just not necessarily always related to time.KatrynKat wrote:yes, really.... energy just keeps building up and building up and one day all this pent up energy is released and is more catastrophic than what it would have been if the energy was released in earlier....Siemens wrote:Not really, no.
And the The Mogi doughnut Hypothesis. Don't South Africans eat human body parts as medicine?Stuart wrote:So they found a dog at sea yesterday on top of a roof. Probably washed out in the tsunami. It was picked up by a Japanese ship.
Don't the Japanese eat dogs?
Um, I don't know. Do you?Siemens wrote:Don't South Africans eat human body parts as medicine?Stuart wrote:So they found a dog at sea yesterday on top of a roof. Probably washed out in the tsunami. It was picked up by a Japanese ship.
Don't the Japanese eat dogs?
Japanese, Chinese - same difference.Prime wrote:No, I think that's the chinese
Americans don't sit in the dark and scream when the lights go outStuart wrote:Japanese, Chinese - same difference.Prime wrote:No, I think that's the chinese
Like America and Canada.
Australia and New Zealand.
Ireland and Iceland.
You'd be amazed. Even between Chinese and Taiwanese who are essentially the same people there are many, many differences in terms of their culture, and especially their language: alphabet and pronunciations.Stuart wrote:Japanese, Chinese - same difference.Prime wrote:No, I think that's the chinese
IOL News wrote:Tokyo - A dog rescued from the rooftop of a house swept to sea by Japan's March 11 tsunami was reunited on Monday with her owner, who recognised her in television news coverage of the dog's rescue by coast guards.
The two-year-old dog survived for three weeks in a house adrift in an island of debris nearly 2km from the shore.
On Friday, coast guards flying over the area to search for survivors spotted the medium-sized brown dog on the roof of the floating house. The aerial view was broadcast repeatedly, as was footage of the ensuing rescue, and the dog being fed and hugged by coast guards afterwards.
The owner saw the footage in her own partially damaged home in Kesennuma, a coastal city badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that followed it, NHK public television said.
Recognising the dog as the family's missing pet, the woman sought her out in the animal shelter in another part of Miyagi prefecture.
“I saw the rescue on the news, and knew it was her. I knew her rightaway, from her face,” the woman, whose name was not given, told NHK. - Reuters
ya, I know. The taiwanese hate the Chinese.Bladerunner wrote:You'd be amazed. Even between Chinese and Taiwanese who are essentially the same people there are many, many differences in terms of their culture, and especially their language: alphabet and pronunciations.Stuart wrote:Japanese, Chinese - same difference.Prime wrote:No, I think that's the chinese