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Sun and moon 'set off deep tremors on San Andreas fault'
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| Dec.24, 2009
| David Derbyshire
Posted on 12/26/2009 11:36:52 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Seems like a logical conclusion to me.
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posted on
12/26/2009 11:42:54 AM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Nahh, it's all the CO
2 from those d@mn SUVs.
Cheers!
...and Merry Christmas.
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posted on
12/26/2009 11:45:17 AM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
There must exist some type of equilibrium between all things and it must constantly adjust.
We think of the world as more or less orderly (the sun rises in the east and sets in the west) but every day brings some type of chaos...Look at the Phillipine Volcano...
Since all things must be connected, I can see their theory as quite possible.
To: grey_whiskers
Merry Christmas to you and all my Freeper friends!
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posted on
12/26/2009 11:57:04 AM PST
by
Free ThinkerNY
(Live Free Or Die)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Makes sense to me. A friend of mine is a sexton for many of the local cemetaries and he swears there are predicable tides in the earth. He says the best time to backfill a grave is at “low tide” because he can get more earth back into the hole.
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posted on
12/26/2009 12:13:00 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
For thousands of years astrologers have claimed that disasters are foretold in the movement of the planets. Now a new study suggests they might be right. Scientists have discovered that the faint gravitational tug of the sun and moon Neither of which is a planet.
I believe this has been conventional wisdom for decades. When a quake is trembling on the edge, tidal forces are likelly to push it over.
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posted on
12/26/2009 12:13:44 PM PST
by
Sherman Logan
("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
To: Free ThinkerNY
In Los Angeles earthquakes are called looting day.
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posted on
12/26/2009 12:14:35 PM PST
by
Vaduz
To: Free ThinkerNY
Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant,
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
- John Donne, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Verse III
To: cripplecreek
Earth tides are very, very small. Sounds more like confirmation bias to me.
To: cripplecreek
Makes sense to me. A friend of mine is a sexton for many of the local cemetaries and he swears there are predicable tides in the earth. He says the best time to backfill a grave is at low tide because he can get more earth back into the hole. Precise orbit predictions (among other things) take account of solid tides, which are a slight bulge of the Earth in response to lunar and solar gravity. It's not a huge effect, but it matters.
I could see your friend's story being right; and this article makes sense in that context.
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posted on
12/26/2009 12:49:05 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: r9etb
Its not a big difference but enough for someone with nearly 30 years of experience to recognize.
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12/26/2009 12:54:09 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Congress needs to get busy and start regulating these heavenly bodies.
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posted on
12/26/2009 1:13:18 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This is not science. How can it be tested? We cannot remove the remove the presence of the moon and the sun to attempt to falsify this hypothesis. The tidal presence of both are a constant variable that may or may not have a relationship to tectonic movement (probably does) but how do we prove it? At this juncture, it is only a conjecture, perhaps an observation of a correlation.
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posted on
12/26/2009 2:33:23 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
Where,d that double “remove the” come from? Ah, well. . .
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posted on
12/26/2009 2:40:26 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
...but how do we prove it?
&&&
Scientists usually do not claim to “prove” any hypothesis; an experiment has the capability merely of supporting said hypothesis.
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posted on
12/26/2009 3:03:13 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
To: Bigg Red
Scientists usually do not claim to prove any hypothesis; an experiment has the capability merely of supporting said hypothesis. I know. So far, I have read three articles on this claiming the scientists have "shown" or "proved" that these mini quakes and tremors are being caused by by the sun and the moon. That is what I am challenging.
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12/26/2009 5:46:50 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
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To: Bigg Red
But, you’re right, I should have phrased that “How do we disprove it?” which was the point of my post.
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posted on
12/26/2009 6:04:22 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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posted on
12/26/2009 9:04:06 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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posted on
12/26/2009 9:08:34 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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