OT: Read In Magazine

[David E. Gervais]

"I believe, I Believe!" (it's just the when that is 'Iffy')

Cheers!

[Nodachi]

If you want to see just how active southern California is check out this link.

[bearclaw]

Nodachi said:
If you want to see just how active southern California is check out this link.

Uh, now that's kind of scary.

I actually live in a Northern BC (Canada) town in which the same fault line as the San Andres runs right through down town. It's well known to locals here about it too. IIRC, the estimate is that when the BIG ONE hits California, it will cause our end to become much more active. In the 30 years I've lived here, I've felt 3 minor tremors. Enough to wake me up at night but nothing major than to shake the pictures on the walls.

[NarfsCompIsBack]

Heh. Vancouver has been due for a big one for years now.

[Kamog]

NarfsCompDied said:
Heh. Vancouver has been due for a big one for years now.

Yeah, I keep hearing that too and we're not ready for one. Fortunately, Vancouver is safe from tsunamis because the island will get hit and block them from reaching Vancouver.

[Starhawk]

Hey folks I hope not to sound to arrogant here as I am really not trying too and am not even trying to be offensive but anyway:

Ever notice scientists preach death and hellfire and destruction "within ten years" or so? They've always done this since the time of Darwin they seem to enjoy making simple minded or uninformed people terrified because without those terrified people their research money would dry up and there'd be a lot fewer "scientists" then there are.

Scienctists are the same folks that tell you one year X food will kill you and then the year after tell you X food is not actually that bad for you, but now Y food will kill you. Watch the news anyone? Scientists have changed their minds about things so dang often but it's always just a depressing thing.

Like for example they say that the US milk supply is tainted with rocket fuel, any proof? not really but it's massive speculation and they provided no further answers beyond "It's not quite something to panic about but you should worry." why? Because if your scared you'll keep paying attention to their research I mean for once I'd like to hear a scientist say "Hey folks everything is okay." but you never will

Science is the tool of the pessimistic sot in the wrong hands and with mass media the way it is these same "sots" get more attention then the "real" scientists who are trying to cure cancer or help mankind.

Bad news and scary news gets more attention then good news so until the end of the world we'll be seeing bad news with only a smigin of good news mixed in to throw you off lol.

[Kamog]

In the past few days I remember reading that cell phones might cause brain tumors or something, so kids shouldn't talk on cell phones.

[Renegade 13]

Kamog said:

Yeah, I keep hearing that too and we're not ready for one. Fortunately, Vancouver is safe from tsunamis because the island will get hit and block them from reaching Vancouver.

Yeah, I heard that too. And I've also heard it said that that's bull. I don't doubt that Vancouver would be affected, though maybe not as bad as it would be without the island being there.

[AgentZero]

Kamog said:
Yeah, I keep hearing that too and we're not ready for one. Fortunately, Vancouver is safe from tsunamis because the island will get hit and block them from reaching Vancouver.

Except for the people ON the island, which includes pretty much my entire family.

I remember a few years ago, one of the Irish 'low-brow' newspapers published an article saying that Cork was due to be nailed by a massive tsunami caused by an underwater volcanic erruption/seismic event. The tsunami would supposedly obliterate Cork and cause massive flooding all along both coastlines. 1/3 of Ireland's population was expected to perish and 80-90% of the survivors would be without food or shelter. 30% of the survivors of the initial event were predicted to die within a month of the event.
After a while, other papers started to pick up the stories, and eventually even a couple of the respectable papers started running it. Few days later the Irish Times published a story detailing how the 'SCIENTIFIC PROOF' that PROVED this event will HAPPEN within a few MONTHS was actually a hypothetical study carried out to assess the effects of a 500km/h tsunami hitting the south coast of Ireland.

Just a case of one reporter completly mis-interpreting what they were reading, and everyone else jumping on the bandwagon so as not to get left behind on a story.

Of course, anyone with half a brain cell to bounce around should have been able to tell the whole thing was theoretical. After all the report (published Dec2002, I think) started out, "On April 3rd, 2003 at 12:17pm, a tsunami of incredible force will strike the south coast of Ireland."

12:17pm, huh?