Somehow, it's Boosh's fault.Posted on 12/29/2004 4:59:47 AM PST by shrinkermd
Now I don’t claim to be an expert on seismic activity, but there has been a series of events which led up to the 9.0 earthquake of the coast of Indonesia which can not be ignored. This all could be an enormous coincidence, but one must look at the information and choose for themselves whether there is anything to it.
On November 28th, one month ago, Reuters reported that during a 3 day span 169 whales and dolphins beached themselves in Tasmania, an island of the southern coast of mainland Australia and in New Zealand. The cause for these beachings is not known, but Bob Brown, a senator in the Australian parliament, said "sound bombing" or seismic tests of ocean floors to test for oil and gas had been carried out near the sites of the Tasmanian beachings recently.
According to Jim Cummings of the Acoustic Ecology Institute, Seismic surveys utilizing airguns have been taking place in mineral-rich areas of the world’s oceans since 1968. Among the areas that have experienced the most intense survey activity are the North Sea, the Beaufort Sea (off Alaska’s North Slope), and the Gulf of Mexico; areas around Australia and South America are also current hot-spots of activity.
The impulses created by the release of air from arrays of up to 24 airguns create low frequency sound waves powerful enough to penetrate up to 40km below the seafloor. The “source level" of these sound waves is generally over 200dB (and often 230dB or more), roughly comparable to a sound of at least 140-170dB in air.
According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, these 200dB – 230dB shots from the airguns are fired every few seconds, from 10 meters below the surface, 24 hours a day, weather permitting.
These types of tests are known to affect whales and dolphins, whose acute hearing and use of sonar is very sensitive.
On December 24th there was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake more than 500 miles southeast of Tasmania near New Zealand, with a subsequent aftershock 6.1 a little later in the morning that same day.
On December 26th, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck at the intersection of the Australian tectonic plate and the India tectonic plate. This is the devastating tragedy that we have all heard about. The death toll of this horrific event has reached 52,000 souls and continues to rise.
On December 27th, 20 whales beached themselves 110 miles west of Hobart on the southern island state of Tasmania.
What is interesting about this is that the same place where the whale beachings have been taking place over the last 30 days is the same general area where the 8.1 Australian earthquake took place, and this is the same area where they are doing these seismic tests. Then 2 days after the Australian tectonic plate shifted, the 9.0 earthquake shook the coast of Indonesia.
A great deal of interest and seismic testing has been taking place in this area, as the government of Australia has given great tax breaks to encourage the oil exploration.
We will be following up on this story as more information is gathered.
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As soon as the Japanese fishermen find out about this new method of fishing for whales, there won't be any left.
they really are a pathetic bunch aren't they, the ones who come up with this kind of angle EVERY time something happens
"I'm not a REAL seismologist, I just act like one in real life."
What is interesting about this is that the same place where the whale beachings have been taking place over the last 30 days is the same general area where the 8.1 Australian earthquake took place...
OR, one could say that what is interesting about this is that the whale beachings have taken place within less than a handful of days of the summer solstice (in the southern hemisphere) and the freaking whales are trying to max out on sun exposure in the face of declining hours of daylight...
This shows how much the envirowhackos have lost it.
And you know, the males never asked for directions!
I'll bet'cha Bush was on board firing the air cannon!
Somehow, it's Boosh's fault.Hmm, so there werent any earthquakes before Big Oil?
These people have lost all common sense.
Maybe they should go beach themselves too.
OR, the whales are depressed because we're not following the Kyoto protocols, and are committing suicide!
That's where you are wrong, the environmentalists never had any sanity to begin with. ;p
"The “source level" of these sound waves is generally over 200dB (and often 230dB or more), roughly comparable to a sound of at least 140-170dB in air."
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SOUND
PRESSURE
LEVEL dB TYPICAL ENVIRONMENT AVERAGE SUBJECTIVE
DESCRIPTION
140 30m from military aircraft at take off Threshold of pain
130 Pneumatic chipping and riveting (operator's position) Intolerable
120 Boiler shop (maximum levels)
Ships engine room (full speed)
110 Automatic punch press (operator's position)
Sheet metal shop-hand grinding
Textile weaving room
100 Automatic lathe shop
Platform of underground station (maximum levels)
Printing press room Very noisy
90 Heavy lorries at 6m.
Construction site-pneumatic drilling
80 Kerbside of busy street
Office with tabulating machines
70 Loud radio (in average domestic room) Noisy
60 Restaurant
Department Store
50 Conversational speech at 1m.
40 Average suburban area
Whispered conversation at 2m.
Residential area at night Quiet
30 Bedroom at night
20 Background in TV and recording studios Very quiet
10
0 'Normal' threshold of hearing Barely Audible
MEMORANDUM
From: Most Learned Bagel-Snarfing Neo-Con Elder of Zion #5
To: Most Learned Bagel-Snarfing Neo-Con Elders of Zion #1-4 & 6-13
Subj: SUMATRAN WEAPONS EFFECT TEST COVER STORY
1. Whoever planted this story did a good job. It'll keep the treehuggers from getting too close to the truth. Remember, it's always the fault of Bush and Halliburton!
2. The detailed report on the test is posted on the intranet. It's not passworded--unless you have a doctorate in geophysics, you won't even begin to understand it. (What worries me is that the only people who DO understand it all seem to be the sort to cackle with maniacal glee.)
3. I won't say where we're planning to operationally test this, except for this: does anyone know if the Ka'aba stone is waterproof? And when's the 2005 Haj? COWABUNGA, DUDES!
This is so farfetched, it borders on criminally negligent irresponsible journalism.
According to some know nothing named Cummings, who happens to cite 3 parts of the world that are being explored for oil... (none of which are anywhere near what happened) etc. etc. etc.
Anybody who knows anything at all about acoustics isn't gonna just randomly throw out 200+ decibels to describe anything.
What the author does not point out is that there is a very good possibility of subtle magnetic and earth vibrations that caused the whales to beach themselves. The whale may have been responding to these natural precursors to the quake and it had nothing to do with evil humans.
Moral of the story: Whale beachings cause massive earthquakes.
I'll bet when they get to the bottom of all this activity, they will discover it is Halliburton who did it!
Oh, yee of scientificly uninquiring minds. I would like to know the numbers and frequency of whale beachings all across the world during this period of time compared to the mentioned beachings. Were worldwide whale beachings confined to this area only in the last few weeks? Without analyzing this information in a statistical-type manner there is little that can be concluded.
If there were normal numbers of beachings in the world and significantly above normal numbers in this part of the world then further analysis might be needed in order to come to any conclusion about corelations between these whale beachings and the recent earthquakes.
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