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8.9 earthquake in Japan
sailordad:
did you see the video of that explosion
the shock wave was most impressive :o
mullet:
Yea, I'd hate to be downwind.
Jesse:
--- Quote from: mullet on March 12, 2011, 08:06:10 pm ---Yea, I'd hate to be downwind.
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Yeah thats no good. The wind could spread that stuff hundreds of miles.
ricktrojanowski:
--- Quote from: HatchA on March 12, 2011, 04:05:19 pm ---Pat and Sailor... I agree 100% about people living in these areas of bad natural happenings - Tsunami hits, people morn the losses, people rebuyild and come up with "early warning systems" to give them some sort of "preparation" for then next eventuallity... I think "if shit like this keeps happening, why don't you MOVE!!!???"
But then again... where would they move to?
The economic ramefications of entire nations of people looking for a "new home" are massive! There's a lot of countries on this planet that have the spacial capacity to allow for massive population increases - but the infrastructures just aren't there and the cost of putting them in place (at current level of capilism/commercialism) are astronomical!!
On a topic more related to the original post -
There's a guy in the U.S. who's job for the last 35 years has been to go into work every day, fire a laser at a bank of reflectors on the moon and wait for the laser to come back to him.
Every day... go to work... shoot laser... wait for it to come back... record the details.
After 35 years of doing this, he's able to compare the records from today against the 35 year old ones and he's now able to say that the beam takes 2 seconds more to come back now than it did when he first started doing it. The moon is moving further away from the planet Earth.
Mankind as a species has been damming up rivers and trying to control the natural run of things. The tides are controlled by the moon's gravitational pull on the water - maybe our stockpiling of rivers behind massive concrete walls has, over time, been affecting the equilibrium betwen the Earth and moon's gravitational relationship...
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35 years of that. I wonder why our taxes are so high ;D
HatchA:
--- Quote from: ricktrojanowski on March 12, 2011, 11:07:31 pm ---
35 years of that. I wonder why our taxes are so high ;D
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LMAO!!! :D :D :D
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