Lunar perigee, which is only about two percent closer. Sounds like hype to me.
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iceman785 wrote:
So my cousin is saying that in the next 8 days the moon will be closest to the earth than it's ever been in 18 years, it'll be a full moon. He says that scientists are predicting that it's might cause more earthquakes and volcanic activity, can anyone confirm/deny?
http://www.space.com/11084-supermoon-ea … sters.htmlVidale concurred. "Practically speaking, you'll never see any effect of lunar perigee," he said. "It's somewhere between 'It has no effect' and 'It's so small you don't see any effect.'"
The bottom line is, the upcoming supermoon won't cause a preponderance of earthquakes, although the idea isn't a crazy one.
"Earthquakes don't respond as much to the tides as you'd think they would. There should actually be more of an effect," said Vidale.
Most natural disasters have nothing to do with the moon at all. The Earth has a lot of pent up energy, and it releases it anytime the buildup gets too great. The supermoon probably won't push it past the tipping point, but we'll know for sure, one way or the other, by March 20.
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tsunami's supposedly gonna hit Vancouver in ~2h
No wonder the video was cut before it got to the roadKmar wrote:
Right.. and look how fast it is moving..Lucien wrote:
jesus there's people just driving right next to it too
This is horrible.
I need around tree fiddy.
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This is horrible.
Well worth watching.Jebus wrote:
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
Fucking hell.
On SKY earlier the chopper was up filming the tide racing across the farm land, it span round and showed the next wave coming in, this link also shows that.
Al-Jezera's chief meterologist is an absolute babe, shes geogeous
I agree '27.
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Crazy.
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Crazy.
Thanks brahKmar wrote:
iceman785 wrote:
So my cousin is saying that in the next 8 days the moon will be closest to the earth than it's ever been in 18 years, it'll be a full moon. He says that scientists are predicting that it's might cause more earthquakes and volcanic activity, can anyone confirm/deny?http://www.space.com/11084-supermoon-ea … sters.htmlVidale concurred. "Practically speaking, you'll never see any effect of lunar perigee," he said. "It's somewhere between 'It has no effect' and 'It's so small you don't see any effect.'"
The bottom line is, the upcoming supermoon won't cause a preponderance of earthquakes, although the idea isn't a crazy one.
"Earthquakes don't respond as much to the tides as you'd think they would. There should actually be more of an effect," said Vidale.
Most natural disasters have nothing to do with the moon at all. The Earth has a lot of pent up energy, and it releases it anytime the buildup gets too great. The supermoon probably won't push it past the tipping point, but we'll know for sure, one way or the other, by March 20.
Gonna have to pay attention to this one. My place is just up the Howe sound from there and only a little above sea level.ebug9 wrote:
tsunami's supposedly gonna hit Vancouver in ~2h
I watched this with bated breath earlier expecting it to rip through the farm land like the earlier wave. It just seemed to stop at the shore line, I was watching it live about 4 hours ago now. I know what Ive just said sounds crazy, but it just seemed to act like a normal wave at the beach. It also showed about 4 more of these behind this wave shown
seems focused on libya the few times I've checked that link.1927 wrote:
I watched this with bated breath earlier expecting it to rip through the farm land like the earlier wave. It just seemed to stop at the shore line, I was watching it live about 4 hours ago now. I know what Ive just said sounds crazy, but it just seemed to act like a normal wave at the beach. It also showed about 4 more of these behind this wave shown
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That was the last 10 mins or so.Kmar wrote:
seems focused on libya the few times I've checked that link.1927 wrote:
I watched this with bated breath earlier expecting it to rip through the farm land like the earlier wave. It just seemed to stop at the shore line, I was watching it live about 4 hours ago now. I know what Ive just said sounds crazy, but it just seemed to act like a normal wave at the beach. It also showed about 4 more of these behind this wave shown
That looked crazy when they were all bent over as its Friday Prayers time, then they all knelt up.
Check back on the hour, 15 mins or so
Damn, its on about Gadaffi again.
It just showed footage from a Mobile, the house shakes, the people run outside into the road and a woman is lying down. The windscreen wipers on a car were facing upwards as if done by vandals.
It just showed footage from a Mobile, the house shakes, the people run outside into the road and a woman is lying down. The windscreen wipers on a car were facing upwards as if done by vandals.
I want to know what happened to those cars. Fuck.Kmar wrote:
Right.. and look how fast it is moving..Lucien wrote:
jesus there's people just driving right next to it too
yeah because 18 years ago thats exactly what happened.iceman785 wrote:
So my cousin is saying that in the next 8 days the moon will be closest to the earth than it's ever been in 18 years, it'll be a full moon. He says that scientists are predicting that it's might cause more earthquakes and volcanic activity, can anyone confirm/deny?
gtfo
also, a fullmoon doesn't mean shit. so there's more light on the moon. gtfo
Did I say that? No. My cousin told me this, don't go and get your panties in a bunch because of something someone said. It's already been debunked, but clearly he wasn't the only one thinking this because other scientists were think it might happen too.
the moon theory is full of shit frankly. go to wikipedia, look up some numbers, plug them into newton's formula and you'll see why
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Id worry more about the sun. Last Wednesday we had another huge mass ejection. They're saying that the northern lights might be visible as far south as new york city this time. The solar peak is really starting to gear up now.
Edit.. link for reference http://spaceweather.com/
SDO image of the flare is on the page.
Edit.. link for reference http://spaceweather.com/
SDO image of the flare is on the page.
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8 thousand times more powerful than the NZ earthquake...
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for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
i hate waking up to shit like this. disaster news is always so sobering. now it's going to be played nonstop with live footage and looped clips on 24hour news and internet sites. so depressing. what an awful event... makes me think a lot about the state of news-reporting and globalised information, too. it seems like thesedays there's a new atrocity and disaster every day. thoughts to the affected and afflicted.
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Heard an LPG plant exploded, and just saw footage of the waters rolling into an airport. The aerial shot at first doesn't look too bad, until you see the cars and houses for scale and speed.
As many as three hundred bodies have been found in Japanese city of Sendai, says #Japan's news agency Jiji: http://bbc.in/e29Rho
