Major Earthquake in Japan
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CaerMyrddin
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Well, can't trade so I'll just look to the news.
Coincidence or not, yesterday I read this article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110310/ ... ldisasters
Coincidence or not, yesterday I read this article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110310/ ... ldisasters
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oddstrader
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Being a trader in the money markets must be a real roller coaster ride at the moment, Egypt, Tunisia , Qatar, New Zealand gaddafi and now Japan.
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oddstrader
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Amazing how twitter and facebook are being used to communicate now , as some mobile networks down but videos and photos instantly available on the net.
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enzabella2009
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Is Japan politically unstable? people die for disasters ( India, Iran, Pakistan, Abruzzo, Haiti, New Zeland, Japan) you feel glad where you live ? People death is every1 defeat...to75ne wrote:makes yer glad we live in a geological (and polilitcal) stable part of world. poor sods.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/ ... hy.geology
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5366886.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wale ... 652040.stm
Think again...
enzabella2009 wrote:Is Japan politically unstable? people die for disasters ( India, Iran, Pakistan, Abruzzo, Haiti, New Zeland, Japan) you feel glad where you live ? People death is every1 defeat...to75ne wrote:makes yer glad we live in a geological (and polilitcal) stable part of world. poor sods.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/ ... hy.geology
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5366886.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wale ... 652040.stm
Think again...
Think again...
Think what again?
I did not state or infer that Japan is politically unstable.
What I said was “ makes yer glad we live in a geological and in brackets political stable part of the world. “ Emphasising the many disasters that have been inflicted on countless millions of people due to natural disasters and politically unstable/deplorable regimes.
Showing that I have some empathy with their plight although I am powerless to do anything about their situations, hence “poor sods”.
I suspect you are not a native English speaker, that is to say you are not English, Irish, welsh, Scottish, Australian, American, New Zealander etcetera, if you were you would naturally understand such a simple statement.
it's amazing the external forces has on the planet and although you may at first dismiss this as baloney it makes you think.CaerMyrddin wrote:Well, can't trade so I'll just look to the news.
Coincidence or not, yesterday I read this article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110310/ ... ldisasters
many years ago I was a systems engineer and solar activity could cause single bit memory errors and even crash large systems. trying to explain to customers that the system that controlled their plant was due to a sun spot often fell on deaf ears!!
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CaerMyrddin
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Well, that's impressive.
I'm gonna have some trouble explaining this but I'll give a try anyway, trying to show how gravitational fields are important.
Some kind of oysters open up to collect food when the tide is down and close when it's high. During many years it was thought that they were able to 'measure' the pressure above them as an indirect way of measuring the water column height above them.
In a lab it wasn't possible to prove such thesis as they weren't responding to the pressure, yet they still 'followed' the natural tides. Scientists from a different lab asked to make further tests and the oysters where taken far away from the shore. It was only then that they discovered that oysters opened and closed as if there was a tide in that spot (which was impossible as there was no tide there as there as no sea). The little creatures are able to measure the power of the gravitational field around them and act accordingly.
Think about that
I'm not claiming that oysters are really powerful, but gravitational fields definitively are.
I'm gonna have some trouble explaining this but I'll give a try anyway, trying to show how gravitational fields are important.
Some kind of oysters open up to collect food when the tide is down and close when it's high. During many years it was thought that they were able to 'measure' the pressure above them as an indirect way of measuring the water column height above them.
In a lab it wasn't possible to prove such thesis as they weren't responding to the pressure, yet they still 'followed' the natural tides. Scientists from a different lab asked to make further tests and the oysters where taken far away from the shore. It was only then that they discovered that oysters opened and closed as if there was a tide in that spot (which was impossible as there was no tide there as there as no sea). The little creatures are able to measure the power of the gravitational field around them and act accordingly.
Think about that
I'm not claiming that oysters are really powerful, but gravitational fields definitively are.
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JollyGreen
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Big aftershocks have hit Tokyo and Eastern Japan. I heard they were 6.8 but that figure has not been confirmed.
Looking at this makes you realise just how many major aftershocks these poor people are suffering as well...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... es_big.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... es_big.php