29-03-2005 02:12									#61
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Aggie, OTOH, deserves being thrown out from a 'copter over open sea, for being a baby-eating consie.

	29-03-2005 02:12									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon quote: agathon, this is in responce to ned saying i deserved to be homeless because i make "vicious attacks" against him in a good portion of threads he makes. ned is a complete *******. That's just wrong. I on the other hand believe that you deserve to be homeless because you are a perverted, degenerate, liberal, enemy of Christian righteousness. I hope you aren't offended.

well i know you like to kid so its not a big deal

	29-03-2005 02:14									#63
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quote: Aggie, OTOH, deserves being thrown out from a 'copter over open sea, for being a baby-eating consie.

He certainly does... burn him!!!*

* and have his ashes scattered over Natalie Portman.

	29-03-2005 02:15									#64
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Odd that all these water things should happen around Christian holidays.

	29-03-2005 02:22									#65
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I don't understand why there is no tsunami. This is a good thing of course. But also troubling that we can't predict them. hmm

Because it's a relatively deep earthquake. Tsunami only occur when the seabed moves substantially, so a 9.0 eathquake which is quite shallow would move the seabed quite a lot.

With this one, the earthquake was deep enough for the seabed to not be affected terribly much, if at all, but naturally we can't tell if the quake is deep enough to avoid movement of the seabed until it's too late.

	29-03-2005 02:23									#66
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I don't understand why there is no tsunami.

Quakes deep in the crust may not move the eart on the surface enough to displace large quantities of water. Also, if the quake was caused by two faults slipping horizontally, no water would be displaced. It's only when the sea floot moves up or down that a tsunami is produced.

	29-03-2005 02:30									#67
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Can't wait to see all the film of carnage,death and destruction

	29-03-2005 02:33									#68
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Precisely.

Think about it. It's easy to lift a bucket full of water, but to lift a bucket full of water and, say, 3 bags of cement, it's not terribly easy, easpecially when your weaker.

The trouble with prediction is that there is not enough information available at the time of the quake to predict. It's only afterwards we know what type of quake it was. Additionally, there is no set mathematical formula to say "At this depth and at this magnitude, there will be a tsunami". We simply haven't got a large enough population of tsunami to choose from.

Additionally, there are many other variables, such as water depth, postion of the moon, time of day, time of year.. again, we simply do not have the population size of tsunami required to make accurate inferences as to whether a tsunami will strike.

This only applies to centres like the Pacific Early Warning System, who are far away. If we have many buoys in the ocean, which is essentially an Early Warning System specific to that region, we can use motions of the water to predict a tsunami (because a 1m wave among 30m waves repeated many times post earthquake would generally mean a tsunami). As it stands though, we simply cannot predict when one will strike.

	29-03-2005 02:36									#69
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50 fatalities on an island near the epicenter due to quake damage. No tsunami hit western Sumatra, but equipment recorded a "small" tsunami heading SW away from the epicenter in the Indian Ocean. Speculation is that the quake's energy ruptured south this time.

	29-03-2005 02:37									#70
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Man, my ignore list is going to increase exponentially in size today, it seems.

	29-03-2005 02:39									#71
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quote: EDIT: X-post with Docfeelgood

Why?



Aren't you excited bout seeing hundred thousand people die?

Whats wrong with you?
Your not human!

	29-03-2005 02:45									#72
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My give a **** is ****ed up. I don't know why. It bothers me.

	29-03-2005 02:45									#73
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Man, my ignore list is going to increase exponentially in size today, it seems.

Sensative?



I'll share my popcorn with you while we wait for the showing of watery deaths



Im so excited!

	29-03-2005 02:49									#74
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Seriously


I went to MNSB site and watched a video of a news person stating that they are waiting for the vedios of the waves to come in and will keep the news desk posted.





MORBID

	29-03-2005 03:07									#75
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Looks like there's going to be no tsunami. All the experts seem to be saying there wont be one and it seems that its only the news directors who are still holding out hope (and doc feelgood)

Wonder how many people died in the quake?

	29-03-2005 03:23									#76
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If there's no tsunami, probably not very many, but someone mentioned 50 dead on an island off Sumatra.

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Indonesian police officials have said "hundreds" are dead in collapsed buildings.

	29-03-2005 04:02									#78
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Well, I'll prepare for the next disaster...as this has happened immediately after a Christian holiday for the second time, there is a very real chance that Pat Robertson and/or Jerry Falwell will blame this on the wrath of God against terrorists, Muslims, Hindus, homosexuals, Muslim-Hindu homosexual terrorists, etc. I would like to preemptively respond to their comment, should it be made, with disgust and a proposal to have them both shipped off to Tora Bora. Make a note of it.

And it's good that it doesn't look like there will be another tsunami.

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Oh, and I agree, there's a line between "slightly morbid" and "sociopathic lack of concern for human well-being" which Dfg is inching towards, if not already over.

EDIT: By insane coincidence, when I posted this, I got the following Bertolt Brecht quote as a while-you-wait: "He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news."

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Maybe it's because he's a Dr., and his gives a **** meter is already on full capacity.

	29-03-2005 04:17									#81
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quote: Originally posted by Elok Oh, and I agree, there's a line between "slightly morbid" and "sociopathic lack of concern for human well-being" which Dfg is inching towards, if not already over. EDIT: By insane coincidence, when I posted this, I got the following Bertolt Brecht quote as a while-you-wait: "He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news."

Im trying to make a point.


I think sum of you got it.

	29-03-2005 04:31									#82
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DFG was being ironc.

	29-03-2005 04:33									#83
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There are deaths, though. Fifty people dead on the island of Nias, quake magnitude raised to 8.7.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/a...uake/index.html

	29-03-2005 04:34									#84
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this is strange... the first earthquake/tsunami happened on Dec 26th, then this one happens a day after easter...

baby jesus hates brown people?

	29-03-2005 04:39									#85
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No. He wants them in Heaven.

	29-03-2005 04:45									#86
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The death toll is going to be in the hundreds.

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I'm residing in Singapore at the moment and lastnight I felt a very long and dragging sway. It lasted about 2 minutes. I'm from New Zealand so I can identify earthquakes quite easily, seems a lot of Singaporeans didn't notice it.

I stood up and tried to feel the movement, just to make sure it wasn't just me being dizzy.

So this morning, I find out that there really was an earthquake at the same time I felt one. Now that I have felt the earthquake, I am going to be much more precautious, I don't want to be near beaches when one happens again.

	29-03-2005 09:43									#88
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Aside from the Christian holidays, the two incidents followed the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox.

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quote: Originally posted by Sn00py I'm residing in Singapore at the moment and lastnight I felt a very long and dragging sway. It lasted about 2 minutes. I'm from New Zealand so I can identify earthquakes quite easily, seems a lot of Singaporeans didn't notice it. I stood up and tried to feel the movement, just to make sure it wasn't just me being dizzy. So this morning, I find out that there really was an earthquake at the same time I felt one. Now that I have felt the earthquake, I am going to be much more precautious, I don't want to be near beaches when one happens again.

I live about a mile from the epicenter of the massive '89 quake. I moved here just after the quake, though. But for years we had significant aftershocks that were quite impressive. We still get quakes, but usually they are a long way off.

As well, I was in SoCal during the big quake of '72. Now for me, that was scary. It went on for about 1 minute, during which time the entire house was shaking violently and loudly.

	29-03-2005 10:13									#90
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quote: Originally posted by Kidicious The death toll is going to be in the hundreds.

At least 2,000, according to an Indonesian official.