[ApplegateRanch]

Praise the Lord, and pass the tinfoil!

[Deetes]

Space mark.

[Right Wing Assault]

Pretty soon some crackpot is going to tell us that solar flares cause the Northern Lights or that the continents can move!

For those skeptics out there, the article did not say they had "proved" star eruptions caused earthquakes. The said there was a correlation. Of course correlation is not enough. Strong and frequent correlation is required. Sure there were people who farted before the earthquake, but there are billions of farts that were not followed by quakes (other than in the same room!). These guys are proposing an hypothesis (NOT a theory). The job of science is to determine if the hypothesis is correct. It often takes quite a while.

Remember when people laughed at Dick Tracy's wrist radio? Did you ever see a picture of the first transistor? If a picture of something like that were published today, those guys would be laughed off the planet. The computer you are typing on right probably has over 50 million of them.

Science would get nowhere without people with the guts to propose that which is unusual and open it to examination by competent people. Thankfully they don't mind being laughed at. They laughed at Wegener (or despised him). http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html
Now THEY just look stupid.

Laughter often preceeds success. I'm sure we would have laughed loud and long at a newsman (even Dan Rather) who told us a loony in a cave could bring down the WTC.

[Constantine XIII]

Wow. That is soooooooo retarded. :)

Hey P, thought you might like to, ahem, see this.

[Strategerist]

India Daily is an utterly and completely worthless source run by kooks that basically just randomly makes stuff up.

This is the same source that talked about secret underground UFO bases in the Himalayas.

Notice they didn't actually cite any sources; they just sort of vaguely hinted they were reporting the research of (non-existent, btw) scientists.

People have really got to stop posting India Daily nonsense, and taking it seriously.

[theFIRMbss]

>Computer models are showing an interesting relationship between star-quakes and earthquakes. Supernova, star-quakes and similar burst of energy in the Universe triggers earthquakes and tsunamis

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe. Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind, Possessing and caressing me. Jai guru deva. Om. Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world. Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world. Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes, They call me on and on across the universe. Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box, They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe Jai guru deva. Om. Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world. Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world. Sounds of laughter, shades of love are ringing through my opened ears Inciting and inviting me. Limitless undying love, which shines around me like a million suns, And calls me on and on across the universe Jai guru deva. Om. Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world. Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world. Jai guru deva. Jai guru deva. Jai guru deva. Jai guru deva. Jai guru deva. Jai guru deva.

[UCANSEE2]

Computer models are showing an interesting relationship between star-quakes and earthquakes.

Computer models are showing an interesting relationship between the COLOR of SUVS and GLOBAL WARMING.

Computer models are showing an interesting relationship between the number of stars in the sky and the number of brain cells.

[UCANSEE2]

Well,,,, The Earthquake that caused the Tsunami force waves was on DECEMBER 26, and the arrival of the MAGNETAR PULSE was DECEMBER 27.

Other than that, yeah, they exactly correlate.

[Veto!]

I love the Hindu mind at work. The question is, are there quakes and tsunamis every time there's a burst of energy in the cosmos? Seems to me this planet would be rocking and rolling full time if so.

[jpsb]

Notice the only named source is BBC, no scientist would allow his/her name to be associated with this story. That should tell you a lot. Maybe something is going on probably not. The earth's crust floats on spinning molten magma, I imagine it's movements are much more dependent of the characteristics of the magma flow then anything else.

[fish hawk]

Earthquakes simplified: Build a fire with twigs on bottom and bigger heavier logs on top. Sit back and watch the fire burn for awhile. As the twigs and limbs burn up the upper logs will shift and move. Gee, that is too simple so I guess I will believe that some star somewhere in space is going to cause an earthquake and forget that the inner earth is on fire. Duuuuhhhhhh.

[P.O.E.]

Now let's say that there are N chinese, with average weight m, jumping from height h. Then the total energy is about
Nmgh

Let's use some conservative numbers here:

Let's say that there are 10 billion chinamen
Let's say that they weigh 100 kg each
Let's approximage the acceleration of gravity with 10m/s/s
Then we have
10,000,000,000*100*10=10,000,000,000,000
1*1012 joules of energy.

The earthquake chart at http://www.geop.itu.edu.tr/~onur/seis/energy.html
gives that as equivalent to a magnitude 5.5 earthquake, or about a fifth of a Nagasaki bomb.

Excerpted from:
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/t-8537