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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: firko on March 15, 2011, 06:31:02 pm
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I just heard a news flash that a 4.8 'quake has erupted a few k's south of Cairns. What the fu*k is going on with Mother Earth?
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I haven't heard that myself, and no sign of it on this map:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/ortho/150_-60.php#maptop
But there have been a few big ones just north of us over the past week, so who knows/
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Innisfail actually. It's only a little one but who knows whats around the corner.
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/03/15/154335_local-news.html (http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/03/15/154335_local-news.html)
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Yep. Just saw that. They are saying just coincidence. Hmmm...
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This will explain it.
http://journalweek.com/pacific-ring-of-fire/
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That'd put the icing on the cake for QLD wouldn't it.
Fingers crossed it's just the one shudder.
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Crazy isnt it. Theres something new happening every couple weeks. I heard theres houses in Victoria that are still flooded as the water has no where to drain because the river is full. There is also predictions for another earthquake in NZ this week :o
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bah 4.8 is for pussies and their is no exploding Nuke to put the icing on the cake..... take more than that to impress me ;D
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I was under the impression that Aus is extremely ancient and, hence, geologically stable.
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Crazy isnt it. Theres something new happening every couple weeks.
Wait up !! what about a meteoritie shower !! :-\ ;D -- sorry bad scense of humour :(
cheers A
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I just heard a news flash that a 4.8 'quake has erupted a few k's south of Cairns. What the fu*k is going on with Mother Earth?
Global warmin they rekon. ;)
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Kaikoura,200 kms above CHCH is supposed to have a biggie on march 20,hopfully not.
cheers Dale.
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I just heard a news flash that a 4.8 'quake has erupted a few k's south of Cairns. What the fu*k is going on with Mother Earth?
I beleive a cave man was heard to be uttering the same thing
According to this site there has been over 300 quakes in the last 8-30 days
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/
It just happens that some are now newsworthy as most don't bother us
I just heard a news flash that a 4.8 'quake has erupted a few k's south of Cairns. What the fu*k is going on with Mother Earth?
Global warmin they rekon. ;)
I blame the millenium bug
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Niburu lurking maybe :-\ never say never...
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I just heard a news flash that a 4.8 'quake has erupted a few k's south of Cairns. What the fu*k is going on with Mother Earth?
Global warmin they rekon. ;)
Haven't you heard it is not Global Warming anymore its Climate Change :-X that way they can blame everthing on the same thing ::)
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Global warmin they rekon.
Well recently i had read a few things about some guys saying 'oh it should last me till 2012' and i had no idea what they were on about and then i looked it (2012) up and suposedly the world is ment to end in 2012 which was news to me. Everytime they say the world is gonna end it never does though. People get all paranoid and stock up on tinned food, battery powered radios and dolphin torches and nothing ever happens. Maybe all these natural disasters are a lead up though?
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December 21 2012 is when the Mayan calendar ends - in their culture when that happened they had a big celebration and moved onto the next period - now since they aren't aorund I guess they can't move onto the next period - apparently not related to world end at all.
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I just heard a news flash that a 4.8 'quake has erupted a few k's south of Cairns. What the fu*k is going on with Mother Earth?
The same thing that has been happening for the last few million years, the difference is that today we get global saturation of the event via media/internet almost instantly.
The same thing was going on 50 years ago, it just wasn't communicated around the world the way it is today. The boxing day tsunami a few years ago may not have even made the papers in other palces in the world back in 1950, same goes for the other catastrophies, not to down play these events, but satalites have made these events ours as much as the countries that they occured in.
They have been occuring long before humans arrived and they will be going on long after we are gone.
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Anybody got any 700 maico donks layin around , Iam thinking of buildin' an ark and may need a bit of propulsion 8)
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Anybody got any 700 maico donks layin around , Iam thinking of buildin' an ark and may need a bit of propulsion 8)
:D :D ;D
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Well recently i had read a few things about some guys saying 'oh it should last me till 2012' and i had no idea what they were on about and then i looked it (2012) up and suposedly the world is ment to end in 2012 which was news to me. Everytime they say the world is gonna end it never does though. People get all paranoid and stock up on tinned food, battery powered radios and dolphin torches and nothing ever happens. Maybe all these natural disasters are a lead up though?
best i start storing up YZ's then :D
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Evo550 has it right, in this day and age every little event is on our screens immediately and we all start seeing patterns and drawing connections. I was surprised last night while watching a show on TV about water to see that the monsoons failed in India back in the 1800s for about 10 years. India had a monster drought with thousands or millions dying. A truly terrible event, but if it happened today, it'd immediately be proof of some human effect on the weather and part of a global pattern of events. Maybe it was, but most likely it was just something that happened. For sure the monsoons came back.
Once you start looking it soon becomes obvious there have always been huge disasters, it's just that they weren't always known by everyone everywhere right away. Here's an interesting flood event in California I'd never heard of before a couple of days ago:
http://www.redlandsfortnightly.org/papers/Taylor06.htm
Today we are very quick to see danger in even the most common of events.
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Another point that came to me is that many of these disasters seem to occur in 'third world' countries and are given a bit of superficial media coverage and then they (and our interest) moves on to the next headline grabber. When the disaster happens to occur in a developed country like NZ or Japan, they send in Kotchie and Carl Stephanovic and we get saturation coverage. The balance is all wrong.
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Global warmin they rekon.
Well recently i had read a few things about some guys saying 'oh it should last me till 2012' and i had no idea what they were on about and then i looked it (2012) up and suposedly the world is ment to end in 2012 which was news to me. Everytime they say the world is gonna end it never does though. People get all paranoid and stock up on tinned food, battery powered radios and dolphin torches and nothing ever happens. Maybe all these natural disasters are a lead up though?
I,ve got all my tins of stuff and bottles of water so if the world DOES end I,ll be OK. ::) ::) ::)
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Another point that came to me is that many of these disasters seem to occur in 'third world' countries and are given a bit of superficial media coverage and then they (and our interest) moves on to the next headline grabber. When the disaster happens to occur in a developed country like NZ or Japan, they send in Kotchie and Carl Stephanovic and we get saturation coverage. The balance is all wrong.
Mark, I admire your sentiments but the reality is that the third world countries, and I'm thinking of Africa in particular, have told the skilled people, those people who can design earthquake proof infrastructure and repair same, too eff off. The self same countries demonise western technology and farming methods yet using their own indigenous farming methods cannot feed themselves and have a huge population growth rate. Take for example Ethiopia. Since Geldorfs well meaning attempts at alleviating the famine, I think, 1984 Ethiopias population has doubled and is now almost entirely dependent of western food aid. Yet they will happily criticise "western imperialism" in the UN.
SA used to have the most efficient electrical generating capacity and cheapest electricity in the world but the govt decided that the employment figures didn't match the racial demographics and fired/laid off all the white sparkies, techies and engineers. The result is that SA now has a serious shortfall of generating capacity.
Sorry mate, IMO, they bring their woes upon themselves.
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Tim... I was more referring to the media's tendency to cover events that effect "people like us" rather than the third world poor in Ethiopa or Bangladesh rather than the social reasons for the dramas in their countries. I was trying to make the point that there have been equal catastrophies in those poor countries that the media gives only token coverage because they perceive that we, the viewing public don't give much of a shit. On the other hand they go into overload with coverage of disasters in 'western countries'.....largely populated by people "like us".
I suspect that you're pretty right in your assumptions of the state the 'third world' countries find themselves in those countries but it doesn't detract from the sadness and loss these disasters bring.
Since Geldorfs well meaning attempts at alleviating the famine, I think, 1984 Ethiopias population has doubled and is now almost entirely dependent of western food aid. Yet they will happily criticise "western imperialism" in the UN.
As a side issue....I recently read that when Beatle George Harrison held the 'Concert for Bangladesh' to raise money for the victims of the huge famine in that country in 1970, they raised millions of dollars through record sales and donations. As of 2005, 35 years later, not one cent of the money raised has ever reached its intended recipients. It was all eaten up by infrastructure and corruption.
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Tim... I was more referring to the media's tendency to cover events that effect "people like us" rather than the third world poor in Ethiopa or Bangladesh
I don't disagree with that at all. Take the recent Pakistanis floods. On the front pages for three days and then nothing. I think they call it donor fatigue ;).
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Anybody got any 700 maico donks layin around , Iam thinking of buildin' an ark and may need a bit of propulsion
Dont forget to collect a set of unique Horns
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Yeah probly one of each colour of those :D
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I blame the Greens, have no proof, I just dont like them
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Leith, they are just numbers and nothing more .....we have been thru 10 -10 -10 and this year it will be 11 -11 -11. Just another day.
Global warmin they rekon.
Well recently i had read a few things about some guys saying 'oh it should last me till 2012' and i had no idea what they were on about and then i looked it (2012) up and suposedly the world is ment to end in 2012 which was news to me. Everytime they say the world is gonna end it never does though. People get all paranoid and stock up on tinned food, battery powered radios and dolphin torches and nothing ever happens. Maybe all these natural disasters are a lead up though?
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I'm not a believer in dates either, such as the "Dec 21st 2012".
I hope this blokes wrong from this link below, otherwise I wont get my bikes done :-\.
But it looks like "Climate Change" is Celestial, and the Government knows this and so does the Bureau of Meteorology being associated with the Australian Space Agency.
This information is leaking from the US Navy and Military intelligence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpbiuKTtMZo&playnext=1&list=PL461362614B0B5A35 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpbiuKTtMZo&playnext=1&list=PL461362614B0B5A35)
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That guy's a crock. I just sat through almost 2 hrs of I'm not sure what.
First he claims it's the desalination of the earths ocean that are going to bring the earth down, then it's solar activity (the suns 11 yr cycle). Then it's the 10th planet in the solar system that comes by every 36000 yrs that's disrupting the earths electrical balance.
Strangley all his facts could be purhased in his books and videos. Even a surival guide.
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Innisfail actually. It's only a little one but who knows whats around the corner.
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/03/15/154335_local-news.html (http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2011/03/15/154335_local-news.html)
Yeh, thats near us. We're 30-40Km from Innisfail as the crow flies & the epicentre was 30km off coast of Innisfail.
Nobody around here felt a thing - wouldn't have known it happened except that the media told us.
Another point that came to me is that many of these disasters seem to occur in 'third world' countries and are given a bit of superficial media coverage and then they (and our interest) moves on to the next headline grabber. When the disaster happens to occur in a developed country like NZ or Japan, they send in Kotchie and Carl Stephanovic and we get saturation coverage. The balance is all wrong
Thoroughly agree Mark. The same occurred to me. When we had the Bris floods, Brazil had huge floods w massive landslides that killed 300-400 people among the poorer folk, but it hardly rated a mention while Bris was news all over the western world. Seems like we value western lives more highly than others'.
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Another point that came to me is that many of these disasters seem to occur in 'third world' countries and are given a bit of superficial media coverage and then they (and our interest) moves on to the next headline grabber. When the disaster happens to occur in a developed country like NZ or Japan, they send in Kotchie and Carl Stephanovic and we get saturation coverage. The balance is all wrong.
Unless the media can apply 'McClurg's Law' ie if the McClurgs or Indoorapilly were visiting that 3rd world country at the time.The race is on to get them, the relatives the neighbours anyone that has a connection to them on the telle.
That's about right John.
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Who is this Mother Earth being or person that is referred to as the one responsible for all the recent happenings. :-\ :-\ We are responsible for all that we do and say and it's not to Mother Earth. ::) ::)
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Who is this Mother Earth being or person that is referred to as the one responsible for all the recent happenings. :-\ :-\ We are responsible for all that we do and say and it's not to Mother Earth. ::) ::)
So who amongst us is "doing" these Earthquakes?
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I have a sneaking suspicion it it might be related to slakey's avatar ::)
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Greenhouse emissions, global warming, climate change ,earthquakes everywhere,,...blah blah blah ,. FACT..Scientists have already stated that the world has actually cooled down over the past few years. Bloody Gillard and her carbon tax, what a load of crap. FACT.. If Australia was to stop emmiting greenhouse gases today then China would replace our Carbon emmisions in 9 months as they are currently building one coal fired Power Station every week. Global warming, look at the history of the earth,yes folks the Earths climate does actually change from time to time. Ancient Egypt and the pharoahs came to an end because of 300 years of drought, don,t you people watch the discovery channel??? And as for Earthquakes, I lived on the Island of Sumbawa in Indonesia for 7 years and we had tremors over there almost every day of the week. If the world is truly coming to an end as the doomsday prophets are continually spruiking, then why even worry about. I mean REALLY whats the point???????
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I blame Guns n' Roses... that last album was a pile of horse hockey.
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Heres one doing the rounds
09 11 01 (sept 11 attack)
03 10 11 ( Japan earthquake.. American dates..backwards)
add the columns
12 21 12 (Mayan prediction)
Cue Twilight zone music.....
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Lets not forget the 01, 01 2000 look how that went... and that was computer geniuses. Something tells me a bunch of near Neanderthal south Americans didn't get it right, they just ran out of ink and paper...
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the thing that fascinates me with september 11 is that the date is 9 - 11 and 911 is the USA emergency phone number and then there is the 2 towers which can represent number '11'. You cant tell me that it wasn't specifically planned for that date because of 911 phone number.
so many people got the whole milenium bug thing wrong. The new millenium was actually 1/1/2001. 2000 was actually the last year, not 1999. We had to actually complete/get through the last year of the millenium.
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Kaikoura,200 kms above CHCH is supposed to have a biggie on march 20,hopfully not.
cheers Dale.
well that prediction is debunked them