New earthquake in far east.

They must have really pissed off the man upstairs.
Best wishes to all involved, lets hope it is not as bad as last years flood.

Howard

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Originally posted by BigH47:
They must have really pissed off the man upstairs.

The man upstairs is certainly being hard on the children of the people that pissed him off...

I'm of the opinion that Earthquakes in this region happen regularly, and have done for eternity, as well as high richter scale levels being reached. This was 30 times smaller than Dec 26th, and as has been reported over and over again that the Mega-Sunami only ensued because of the tiny distance between sea level and surface, and was a first timer in recorded history. Obviously being so close to last time governments and people are nervous, but this will not happen every time a quake occurs, as eg. floods yearly in Bangladesh aren't resulting often in great loss of life. Just a small point made recently by a Shrilankan Minister, in that since DEc over 600 new NGO's have sprung up in the region suprise, suprise, and all that donation money is still waiting to be spent, innit.

Fritz Von Unsuprisingly certain 'News ?' agencies have been wallowing in the panic possibilities over the last few hours, sells 'papers ?' so it does

So they can avoid to write about disaster in Irak and other interesting things.

Goodnight Graham.

That is of course also very true Luigi.


Cheers. G

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
So they can avoid to write about disaster in Irak and other interesting things.

No, the truth is that it's so they can avoid having to write that Iraq is turning out no longer to be a disaster after all.

Regards
Steve M

Steve,

Sorry to disappoint you but Iraq is a disaster, the war was a mistake and Blair went into it on the basis of a lie. A US-imposed 'democratic' election does not in itself confer victory for the coalition and defeat for the insurgents, who are still going strong and still killing civillians every day. And I have not heard yet that a government has actually been formed....?

On the subject of the earthquake, that's tough on the people living in the affected region - I too noticed how the news agencies were slavering over the possibility of another tsunami.

Jon

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Originally posted by JonR:
Sorry to disappoint you but Iraq is a disaster, the war was a mistake and Blair went into it on the basis of a lie. A US-imposed 'democratic' election does not in itself confer victory for the coalition and defeat for the insurgents, who are still going strong and still killing civillians every day. And I have not heard yet that a government has actually been formed....?

All of which is, of course, a matter of vastly differing interpretations and opinions.

However, we're 'off thread' here. Thankfully, it does look as though the latest earthquake won't bring anything like the devastation of the last one.

Regards
Steve M

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Originally posted by JonR:

On the subject of the earthquake, that's tough on the people living in the affected region - I too noticed how the news agencies were slavering over the possibility of another tsunami.

Jon

Yes. It's sad isn't it? Doubtless we get the media we deserve and a majority of us get off on death and suffering in the comfort of our own living rooms.

Very disturbing. And present company excepted as always.

The day after Christmas, and now the day after Easter. Maybe we should cancel Christian festivals for the time being. Weird.

Maybe it'll put that region off of becoming Christian at least, innit.


Fritz Von Lot's killed in Southern Thailand lately with bullets

I think is not matter of God or Gods..........
The planet lives on phisic and chemical laws, that we are not able to control for sure, in the larger part ruled by sun phases.
In front of such things humans seem to be so arrogant.
Expecially when some of us swear to know the true truth..................

Slow down Luigi, you'll be getting as emotional(though not tired) as Fritz soon, innit !



Fritz Von Truth is the fist casualty not only of war, but also of human reason

Go and have a beautiful glass of wine my friend

Let's keep the Christian festivals. Take them away and we'll be left with the pre existing Pagan festivals. Then the Pagans will get the blame for everything and we'll be back in the middle ages (in terms of barbarity, not religion. Oh, come to think of it...).

Harry, your strait-jacket is ready....

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Slow down Luigi

Sorry Graham!
"Arrogant" was not for you!
Believe me.

Of course not Luigi, only some people are arrogant on this forum, and they´can't use their real names ?


Chhers, Graham Von I've burnt my fish

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Chhers, Graham Von I've burnt my fish

hahahaha
I'm sorry Graham!
I've had fish on sunday, but this evening was the usual spaghetti with meat sauce and red red wine.
Doggy had the same but less refined.
No wine of course!

I have an uncomfortable feeling that 'those poor guys' are not going to have any comfortable feelings for a long time into the future. In the event that any quake, ever so small is detected, I imagine that a Tsunami warning will be issued. Maybe the boy will cry wolf once too often with unfortunate consequences.
But what to do? Will a system ever be that good that it can say stay home as against flee to the high ground.

The response to the latest earthquake disaster is immediate and so much so that the local airfield cannot handle the traffic.
Evidence is that we as mere mortals on this planet cannot cope with the ramifications of global disasters of this magnitude.
We cannot control the situation so we admit defeat. I have a suspicion it will take a catastrophe in a Western nation to wake us up and make us realise we have only this planet to live on.
Granted we cannot stop the earth moving but all evidence suggests that we will have huge difficulties sustaining sufficient fresh water for drinking purposes and hygiene and that there is now more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there was before we started to try to bring levals down.
All this accelerating in the last 50 years.

Lomo

You have seen nothing yet - just wait until the Yellowstone Caldera super explodes - watch out for the the TV programs about it.

Ice lakes around Ayers Rock any one??

Oh and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it

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Originally posted by Lomo:
...and that there is now more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there was before we started to try to bring levals down.
All this accelerating in the last 50 years.

I've heard that methane is an even more dangerous greenhouse gas and that there's also far more methane in the atmosphere than before.

Can anyone enlighten us on this?

Regards
Steve M

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Originally posted by Derek Wright:
Lomo

You have seen nothing yet - just wait until the Yellowstone Caldera super explodes - watch out for the the TV programs about it.

Ice lakes around Ayers Rock any one??

Oh and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it

Yes, quite. Or a good asteroid impact or a slight increase in incidence of interstellar radiation or a bit more wobble, or even a mutation to the AIDS virus to make it airborne... we're stuffed, and that's it.

There's no point deliberately sabotaging the environment, but as I always say in these discussions don't imagine (as environmentalists tend to) that Earth's climate is in some state of perpetual equilibrium: it isn't.

So we're stuffed.

EW

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Originally posted by 7V:

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Originally posted by Lomo:
...and that there is now more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there was before we started to try to bring levals down.
All this accelerating in the last 50 years.

I've heard that methane is an even more dangerous greenhouse gas and that there's also far more methane in the atmosphere than before.

Can anyone enlighten us on this?

Regards
Steve M

My teddy's stopped breathing and I didn't even notice !

Another Mr. Bean.