There's a guy in Syracuse, NY, who lost his father in that crash. He might not be able to attend the funeral.
Volcanic ash cloud cripples Britain, apparently...
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[IAL]They could use giant loudspeakers.[/IAL]
Iceland is taking revenge on everyone else for not taking them seriously.
There's a Facebook group for carpooling and getting/offering rides:
http://www.facebook.com/carpooleurope
http://www.facebook.com/carpooleurope
You know I'm starting to think The Earth and Mother Nature are just pissed off at everything going on...
First Earth had to Stamp it's feet [the earthquakes] now Mother Nature pissed off and blowing off steam and ash.
First Earth had to Stamp it's feet [the earthquakes] now Mother Nature pissed off and blowing off steam and ash.
All we need now is Father Time to blow his whistle and actually call time on the whole game of existence.
In other words, it's time to unleash some whoop-ash.
[Jess Moondragon]Did someone mention...Mother Nature?[/Jess Moondragon]
The recient spate of powerful earthquakes around the globe we have been having are of course directly related to the movement of plate tectonics. The trigger for volcanic eruptions are also very often caused directly by the movement of plate tectonics which can induce lava to start flowing into the dome and building up pressure until it pops.
If ever we had a massive tectonic shift that triggered 9.5+ earthquakes all around the globe in a short period of time you would see volcanoes going off like crazy all over the place even ones we thought were dead.
I am willing to bet good money such massive shifts have happened in the past 500 million years.
We've had over 50 earthquakes here in central Oklahoma this year. They've all been 3.1 or lower, but that's an astonishing number, and a lot of them are being felt by quite a few people. I've felt two of them. To a girl who grew up in Oklahoma, earth tremors are not something to which you're accustomed. Our Earth is living, breathing, and changing. It is alive.
It only lasted one second, but the first tremor I felt I didn't even know was a tremor. I thought a plane had flown low overheard to Tinker AFB. I felt so stupid when I read there'd been an earthquake.
I hope this isn't creeping toward the New Madrid fault. It's quite a bit more populated than it was in 1811 and 1812. Not exactly filled with buildings constructed to earthquake code, either.
It only lasted one second, but the first tremor I felt I didn't even know was a tremor. I thought a plane had flown low overheard to Tinker AFB. I felt so stupid when I read there'd been an earthquake.
I hope this isn't creeping toward the New Madrid fault. It's quite a bit more populated than it was in 1811 and 1812. Not exactly filled with buildings constructed to earthquake code, either.
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We've had over 50 earthquakes here in central Oklahoma this year. They've all been 3.1 or lower, but that's an astonishing number, and a lot of them are being felt by quite a few people. I've felt two of them. To a girl who grew up in Oklahoma, earth tremors are not something to which you're accustomed. Our Earth is living, breathing, and changing. It is alive.
It only lasted one second, but the first tremor I felt I didn't even know was a tremor. I thought a plane had flown low overheard to Tinker AFB. I felt so stupid when I read there'd been an earthquake.
I hope this isn't creeping toward the New Madrid fault. It's quite a bit more populated than it was in 1811 and 1812. Not exactly filled with buildings constructed to earthquake code, either.
Agreed! We live right in line with the New Madrid Fault, and if the quality of our buildings is any indication, even a moderate quake could cause massive damage.
"Since the dawn of time, Man has yearned to destroy the Sun..."I hear that scientists are working on creating a giant umbrella to cool the earth down in order to prevent global warming.
Mankind cannot control the temperature of the Earth any more than it can the sun. The computer models are flawed as is the data being fed.
Do you think there's a thermostat switch somewhere that can be adjusted?
"We'll do the next best thing: block it out."
Actually, we recently invented a secret new technology called "boats". They float on water as if by magic.
Yes, we have been a sea faring nation since at least 1985. We have videos to prove this fact.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwoeSQMz7VU[/yt]
Don't forget our maritime poems.
Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: "I know you are no coward;
You fly them for a moment to fight with them again.
But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore.
I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain."
So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day,
Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven;
But Sir Richard bore in hand all his sick men from the land
Very carefully and slow,
Men of Bideford in Devon,
And we laid them on the ballast down below;
For we brought them all aboard,
And they blest him in their pain, that they were not left to Spain,
To the thumbscrew and the stake, for the glory of the Lord.
He had only a hundred seamen to work the ship and to fight,
And he sailed away from Flores till the Spaniard came in sight,
With his huge sea-castles heaving upon the weather bow.
"Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!
There'll be little of us left by the time this sun be set."
And Sir Richard said again: "We be all good English men.
Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil,
For I never turned my back upon Don or devil yet."
Sir Richard spoke and he laughed, and we roared a hurrah, and so
The little Revenge ran on sheer into the heart of the foe,
With her hundred fighters on deck, and her ninety sick below;
For half of their fleet to the right and half to the left were seen,
And the little Revenge ran on through the long sea-lane between.
Thousands of their soldiers looked down from their decks and laughed,
Thousands of their seamen made mock at the mad little craft
Running on and on, till delayed
By their mountain-like San Philip that, of fifteen hundred tons,
And up-shadowing high above us with her yawning tiers of guns,
Took the breath from our sails, and we stayed.
You fly them for a moment to fight with them again.
But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore.
I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain."
So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day,
Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven;
But Sir Richard bore in hand all his sick men from the land
Very carefully and slow,
Men of Bideford in Devon,
And we laid them on the ballast down below;
For we brought them all aboard,
And they blest him in their pain, that they were not left to Spain,
To the thumbscrew and the stake, for the glory of the Lord.
He had only a hundred seamen to work the ship and to fight,
And he sailed away from Flores till the Spaniard came in sight,
With his huge sea-castles heaving upon the weather bow.
"Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!
There'll be little of us left by the time this sun be set."
And Sir Richard said again: "We be all good English men.
Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil,
For I never turned my back upon Don or devil yet."
Sir Richard spoke and he laughed, and we roared a hurrah, and so
The little Revenge ran on sheer into the heart of the foe,
With her hundred fighters on deck, and her ninety sick below;
For half of their fleet to the right and half to the left were seen,
And the little Revenge ran on through the long sea-lane between.
Thousands of their soldiers looked down from their decks and laughed,
Thousands of their seamen made mock at the mad little craft
Running on and on, till delayed
By their mountain-like San Philip that, of fifteen hundred tons,
And up-shadowing high above us with her yawning tiers of guns,
Took the breath from our sails, and we stayed.
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not surprising given the mountain ranges on most continents as well as the series of islands along the Pacific Rim.
We've had over 50 earthquakes here in central Oklahoma this year. They've all been 3.1 or lower, but that's an astonishing number, and a lot of them are being felt by quite a few people. I've felt two of them. To a girl who grew up in Oklahoma, earth tremors are not something to which you're accustomed. Our Earth is living, breathing, and changing. It is alive.
It only lasted one second, but the first tremor I felt I didn't even know was a tremor. I thought a plane had flown low overheard to Tinker AFB. I felt so stupid when I read there'd been an earthquake.
I hope this isn't creeping toward the New Madrid fault. It's quite a bit more populated than it was in 1811 and 1812. Not exactly filled with buildings constructed to earthquake code, either.
Agreed! We live right in line with the New Madrid Fault, and if the quality of our buildings is any indication, even a moderate quake could cause massive damage.
We were warned of the forthcoming New Madrid quake in 1977, when I was a wee lad in Illinois. 20 years was the deadline, which has come and gone. We're a bit overdue for that mover and shaker.
In addition to what Dorian stated, I happened to feel one of those Oklahoma quakes. It was very perplexing, although I've lived in Illinois, California, and Washington all during times of seismic activity but never felt any.
I believe you, John Picard. It is perplexing the first time you feel it. I think I might have realized quicker what it was had I been outside. It just didn't occur to me that it could be an earthquake. Something about how the faultlines lie and exist in the eastern US would make a New Madrid Quake be felt in a much, much wider area than western US quakes. We are overdue. With fits of land rising, it could create exclaves of the Mississippi river again like it did in 1811 when the course of the river changed. That's a powerful quake.