Posted on 12/29/2004 4:59:47 AM PST by shrinkermd
For the sake of some interesting conversation here, is it at all POSSIBLE that the use of heavy explosives underground could set off an earthquake (i.e. underground testing of nuclear weapons)?
BTW, I'm a conservative and NOT an environmentalist. I'm just interested in hearing opinions here if anyone here is knowledgeable in geology.
We need to see if ELF has purchased any cavitators and submarines recently:
State Of Fear, by Michael Crichton
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066214130/103-2771781-3780647?v=glance
OR, the whales are depressed...
Can't be. According to enviroloons, the waters of the world are awash with excreted Prozac. Whales are happy campers & the ones down south are especially happy because they are on vacation, working on their tans...
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It isn't often that I see something so outrageous in the media that I take the time to respond.
Mr. Limburg's above mentioned article captures a certain unprofessional element of those who call themselves servants of the public. This pseudo-scientific diatribe is aimed at a demographic that consists of Socialist Tree Huggers and Eco-terrorists....who create their own science of "imagination" to support their ongoing anti-(Just about everything) and dysfunctional anger.
No where in this article was a professional geologist referenced nor was there anything even closely approaching the "Scientific Method" utilized to support the innuendo. The article did succeed in utilizing bandwidth. Wooohooo!!!
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Man with his puny popguns is not going to shift the crust of the Earth. We are talking about 20 Orders of Magnitude difference in the amount of energy involved.
Now if they were exploring for oil using 20 Megaton nuclear bombs, this author might have something...
Michael Moore has the movie rights.
It's possible. But one would have to know where the most stress is on the fault. Even if you were able to know that, you would need to know alot about the surrounding geology.
I've done alot of exploding of stuff underground. And no matter how many times you've done it before, logic and experience are almost useless. The rock breaks and shears the way the rock wants to break and shear.
It's utterly amazing what you see down there. The types of rocks (even in an igneous/amorphic zone like we're working in) is incredible. And the shears where whole faces of rock disappear or have been shifted out of site are amazing.
I'm talking slates/quartzites/andesites/granedosites (and even limestone) near Yosemite.
And a tiny, tiny amount of gold/silver/molybdenum.
I haven't decided. It's either a lot of hot air or a whale of a story.
Yep! Ya done good!
Just wondering - What caused earthquakes and whale beachings before man started searching for oil? Or is whale beaching a recent phenomenon?
I've been waiting patiently to see how the evidence would unfold that this earthquake and tidal wave were ALL BUSH'S FAULT.
I see I didn't have long to wait.
My cheesecake fell on Christmas Eve...now I know which greedy corporate interests to blame.
"Next piece of crap, please!"
Ditto that.
I seem to remember a guy proposing that we set off explosives to help the San Andreas fault relieve strain in a series of very small quakes, rather than store up strain for a giant quake. Couldn't be done, not enough bombs in the world, couldn't get them deep enough, etc. Very quickly debunked by real geophysicists.
Next to the raw power of the planet, all of man's explosives are little more than bubbles in the tub, so to speak.
I don't think they ever really had it.
>>>>We will be following up on this story as more information is gathered.
and as Comedy Central finds us an appropriate time slot.
Translation: "My care providers are here to take me back to my rubber room. Ta-ta for now."
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