I agreeHurricaИe wrote:
On one hand i've heard about how we're "overdue" for a volcano in Yosemite and shit, but on the other hand I'd be willing to bet these freak occurences of nature's wrath (e.g. volcano in Chile, crazy storms in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, Myanmar cyclone, China earthquake) have happened before. Rare, like the alignment of the planets, but I'd say we keep a level head. We've made it billions of years so far... let's make it a few more.
mankind --> causing everything LOLSenorToenails wrote:
I don't think mankind is causing earthquakes.
There is nothing 'strange' going on. The world (universe) and nature has been delivering up disasters for billions of years. There is nothing special about today and nothing special about 4 or 5 events in the past 2 weeks. Everything is based on probabilities and it just pure coincident that these things happened, but even so, its is not abnormal amount of things to happen in such a long period of time anyway.
2004 was pretty messed up.. at least 'round these parts.
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yesDrunkFace wrote:
There is nothing 'strange' going on. The world (universe) and nature has been delivering up disasters for billions of years. There is nothing special about today and nothing special about 4 or 5 events in the past 2 weeks. Everything is based on probabilities and it just pure coincident that these things happened, but even so, its is not abnormal amount of things to happen in such a long period of time anyway.
I think one thing that IS strange, or unprecedented in human history anyway, is the level of reporting and media.
It's global and instantaneous; we hear about everything that happens across the planet on a daily basis, and i think it can lead to a possibly distorted sense of how common cataclysmic natural events are.
We can change the atmosphere, we can change the biosphere, but we can change the lithosphere. It's just too damned huge.
Mind you, there is anecdotal evidence that resevoirs increase the change of certain types of earthquakes...
Mind you, there is anecdotal evidence that resevoirs increase the change of certain types of earthquakes...
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman