The living earth goes through life cycles just like we do...
Scary though and humbling. We, as individuals, are so insignificant to this planet...
Just like insects would be to us I suppose..
Yup :crazy:
jester
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Originally posted by VDub
The US Geological Survey is reporting that the coast of Japan has shifted 8 feet (2.4m) because of the earthquake in Japan. The Earth's axis has reportedly been shifted 10 inches too.
Did they tell you which direction? If we keep major disasters... the North Pole might just become the South Pole :crazy:
jad
Madness..
Abercrombie
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Originally posted by VDub
That's a deceptive picture comparison. The pic on the right is a huge zoom of the tip of the tower on the left. It's not size proportionate making it look like all the microwave antennas fell off.
Don’t be alarmed if come March 19 you find your astrology-reading friends clunking around in hip waders and full-face helmets with fire extinguishers under their arms. You see, that Saturday falls upon a scrotum-tightening event known in astrological circles as an Extreme SuperMoon.
The popularizer of this to-the-max moniker appears to be Richard Nolle, a diviner of the stars who Sightings credits with predicting the 1993 terrorist bombing at the World Trade Center. An Extreme SuperMoon occurs when a new or full moon coincides with the big rock’s closest orbit to earth, Nolle says. The coming SuperMoon (which is also known as a Full Worm Moon) will be so extreme (221,566 miles away) that a similar event hasn’t been seen since 1993 – it’s almost an Extreme SuperDuper moon.
Are you prepared? Doubtful! According to Nolle’s forecast, from March 16 to March 22 we could see “the usual.” That means:
[A] surge in extreme tides along the coasts, a rash of moderate-to-severe seismic activity (including magnitude 5+ earthquakes, tsunami and volcanic eruptions), and most especially in this case a dramatic spike in powerful storms with heavy precipitation, damaging winds and extreme electrical activity. Floods are a big part of the picture in this case, although some of these will be dry electrical storms that spark fast-spreading wildfires.
He left out thundersnow. But please read on, if you're not a cowering wreck by now:
Being planetary in scale, there’s no place on our home planet that’s beyond the range of a SuperMoon, so it wouldn’t hurt to make ready wherever you are or plan to be during the March 16-22 SuperMoon risk window.
The gravity is going to be out of control! I have already visited REI to purchase a jumbo-sized backpack for a SuperMoon survival kit. Included inside: a blindfold so I don’t have to see the moon, black body paint so the moon can’t see me, a thermos of warm milk and a streetsweeper shotgun.
The people who are spreading this menacing moon theory as far as I can tell do not beckon from the crackpot fringe, but are journalists working for established media outlets. (Which I guess if you’re a Tea Partier does mean they’re extremists.) They’re not agreeing with the terror scenario, but they sure aren’t examining the data very hard. For instance, this article in News.com.au quotes a scientist saying the impending "Moonageddon" won’t do much except change the tidal levels ever so slightly. Then comes the big BUT:
But try telling that to anyone who suffered through the New England hurricane in 1938, or the Hunter Valley floods of 1955. Both happened during lunar perigrees.
Cyclone Tracy in 1974 and Hurricance Katrina in 2005 also coincided with SuperMoons, or at least, very close to.
A “perigree” describes the moon’s closest approach to earth in its irregular orbit. “During,” in the context of this article, apparently means “somewhere in the same year, or maybe the one before or after.” For instance, Cyclone Tracy hit Australia on Christmas Eve, 1974. The closest SuperMoon was on Jan. 27, 1975. I wouldn’t considered those two events “very close to” each other, especially if I was paying an astrologer to pin down the date to play 01081975 lotto numbers.
Hurricane Katrina made land on the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, which was 10 days after the SuperMoon for that month. The 1938 New England hurricane happened on Sept. 21, three weeks after a SuperMoon. Australia’s Hunter River experienced mass flooding and property destruction in February 1955, two whole months before and after bookending SuperMoons.
I realize we’re not exactly talking NASA-level science here, but the arbitrariness of this particular astrological prediction is annoying. I could just pick harmless events that happened around SuperMoons and use them to formulate a theory stating that nobody should ever pay astrologers for readings again. Oh look, I did:
Jan. 25, 1948: One day before an Extreme SuperMoon, a braking malfunction at a Los Angeles rail yard sent a runaway train crashing through a concrete wall 20 feet above street level. Fortunately, the train stopped in time and didn’t fall, and nobody was injured.
Nov. 10, 1954: On this Extreme SuperMoon, Sen. Joe McCarthy issued a press release calling a Congressional committee the "unwitting handmaiden," "involuntary agent" and "attorneys-in-fact" of the Communist Party. Rather than propel the senator into further Red-Scare stardom, these words lead the Senate to censure him and wipe his stain off the halls of Congress for good.
Feb. 26, 1975: An Extreme SuperMoon loomed on this date, and yet Elvis still had 2 years on the clock. He managed to sign autographs in the parking lot of the Memphian Theatre in Memphis without dropping dead.
Dec. 2, 1990: Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills deployed their game-changing "K-Gun" offense against the Philadelphia Eagles on this date, choosing not to be cowed by an Extreme SuperMoon or to huddle during their offense. The tactic baffled the Eagles and the Bills won the game 30 to 23, later making it to the Super Bowl.
March 8, 1993: MTV aired the first episode of Beavis and Butthead during an Extreme SuperMoon. The show was blamed for killing a 2-year-old girl the same year ("Yes, yes, yes! Fire, fire, fire!") and could have been quickly canceled, yet goes on to become a successful fixture for Gen-Yers and is expected to return to production soon.
Abercrombie
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Originally posted by VDub
Shiiiiit
Guy at the end looked like he made a beeline to check if his pr0n collection survived.
The Potter
The tsunami is expected to travel all the way around the world to Greenland, in the Atlantic, a completely different ocean! :wtf: Rather scarily, I discovered that Canada is not immune from these type of disasters: a 9-magnitude earthquake struck around Vancouver island about 300 hundred years ago, and they are expected roughly every 500 hundred years :eek:
Don’t be alarmed if come March 19 you find your astrology-reading friends clunking around in hip waders and full-face helmets with fire extinguishers under their arms. You see, that Saturday falls upon a scrotum-tightening event known in astrological circles as an Extreme SuperMoon.
The popularizer of this to-the-max moniker appears to be Richard Nolle, a diviner of the stars who Sightings credits with predicting the 1993 terrorist bombing at the World Trade Center. An Extreme SuperMoon occurs when a new or full moon coincides with the big rock’s closest orbit to earth, Nolle says. The coming SuperMoon (which is also known as a Full Worm Moon) will be so extreme (221,566 miles away) that a similar event hasn’t been seen since 1993 – it’s almost an Extreme SuperDuper moon.
Are you prepared? Doubtful! According to Nolle’s forecast, from March 16 to March 22 we could see “the usual.” That means:
[A] surge in extreme tides along the coasts, a rash of moderate-to-severe seismic activity (including magnitude 5+ earthquakes, tsunami and volcanic eruptions), and most especially in this case a dramatic spike in powerful storms with heavy precipitation, damaging winds and extreme electrical activity. Floods are a big part of the picture in this case, although some of these will be dry electrical storms that spark fast-spreading wildfires.
He left out thundersnow. But please read on, if you're not a cowering wreck by now:
Being planetary in scale, there’s no place on our home planet that’s beyond the range of a SuperMoon, so it wouldn’t hurt to make ready wherever you are or plan to be during the March 16-22 SuperMoon risk window.
The gravity is going to be out of control! I have already visited REI to purchase a jumbo-sized backpack for a SuperMoon survival kit. Included inside: a blindfold so I don’t have to see the moon, black body paint so the moon can’t see me, a thermos of warm milk and a streetsweeper shotgun.
The people who are spreading this menacing moon theory as far as I can tell do not beckon from the crackpot fringe, but are journalists working for established media outlets. (Which I guess if you’re a Tea Partier does mean they’re extremists.) They’re not agreeing with the terror scenario, but they sure aren’t examining the data very hard. For instance, this article in News.com.au quotes a scientist saying the impending "Moonageddon" won’t do much except change the tidal levels ever so slightly. Then comes the big BUT:
But try telling that to anyone who suffered through the New England hurricane in 1938, or the Hunter Valley floods of 1955. Both happened during lunar perigrees.
Cyclone Tracy in 1974 and Hurricance Katrina in 2005 also coincided with SuperMoons, or at least, very close to.
A “perigree” describes the moon’s closest approach to earth in its irregular orbit. “During,” in the context of this article, apparently means “somewhere in the same year, or maybe the one before or after.” For instance, Cyclone Tracy hit Australia on Christmas Eve, 1974. The closest SuperMoon was on Jan. 27, 1975. I wouldn’t considered those two events “very close to” each other, especially if I was paying an astrologer to pin down the date to play 01081975 lotto numbers.
Hurricane Katrina made land on the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, which was 10 days after the SuperMoon for that month. The 1938 New England hurricane happened on Sept. 21, three weeks after a SuperMoon. Australia’s Hunter River experienced mass flooding and property destruction in February 1955, two whole months before and after bookending SuperMoons.
I realize we’re not exactly talking NASA-level science here, but the arbitrariness of this particular astrological prediction is annoying. I could just pick harmless events that happened around SuperMoons and use them to formulate a theory stating that nobody should ever pay astrologers for readings again. Oh look, I did:
Jan. 25, 1948: One day before an Extreme SuperMoon, a braking malfunction at a Los Angeles rail yard sent a runaway train crashing through a concrete wall 20 feet above street level. Fortunately, the train stopped in time and didn’t fall, and nobody was injured.
Nov. 10, 1954: On this Extreme SuperMoon, Sen. Joe McCarthy issued a press release calling a Congressional committee the "unwitting handmaiden," "involuntary agent" and "attorneys-in-fact" of the Communist Party. Rather than propel the senator into further Red-Scare stardom, these words lead the Senate to censure him and wipe his stain off the halls of Congress for good.
Feb. 26, 1975: An Extreme SuperMoon loomed on this date, and yet Elvis still had 2 years on the clock. He managed to sign autographs in the parking lot of the Memphian Theatre in Memphis without dropping dead.
Dec. 2, 1990: Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills deployed their game-changing "K-Gun" offense against the Philadelphia Eagles on this date, choosing not to be cowed by an Extreme SuperMoon or to huddle during their offense. The tactic baffled the Eagles and the Bills won the game 30 to 23, later making it to the Super Bowl.
March 8, 1993: MTV aired the first episode of Beavis and Butthead during an Extreme SuperMoon. The show was blamed for killing a 2-year-old girl the same year ("Yes, yes, yes! Fire, fire, fire!") and could have been quickly canceled, yet goes on to become a successful fixture for Gen-Yers and is expected to return to production soon.
I've actually heard about this before. It'll be interesting to see how things will fold from here on..
Don’t be alarmed if come March 19 you find your astrology-reading friends clunking around in hip waders and full-face helmets with fire extinguishers under their arms. You see, that Saturday falls upon a scrotum-tightening event known in astrological circles as an Extreme SuperMoon.
The popularizer of this to-the-max moniker appears to be Richard Nolle, a diviner of the stars who Sightings credits with predicting the 1993 terrorist bombing at the World Trade Center. An Extreme SuperMoon occurs when a new or full moon coincides with the big rock’s closest orbit to earth, Nolle says. The coming SuperMoon (which is also known as a Full Worm Moon) will be so extreme (221,566 miles away) that a similar event hasn’t been seen since 1993 – it’s almost an Extreme SuperDuper moon.
Are you prepared? Doubtful! According to Nolle’s forecast, from March 16 to March 22 we could see “the usual.” That means:
[A] surge in extreme tides along the coasts, a rash of moderate-to-severe seismic activity (including magnitude 5+ earthquakes, tsunami and volcanic eruptions), and most especially in this case a dramatic spike in powerful storms with heavy precipitation, damaging winds and extreme electrical activity. Floods are a big part of the picture in this case, although some of these will be dry electrical storms that spark fast-spreading wildfires.
He left out thundersnow. But please read on, if you're not a cowering wreck by now:
Being planetary in scale, there’s no place on our home planet that’s beyond the range of a SuperMoon, so it wouldn’t hurt to make ready wherever you are or plan to be during the March 16-22 SuperMoon risk window.
The gravity is going to be out of control! I have already visited REI to purchase a jumbo-sized backpack for a SuperMoon survival kit. Included inside: a blindfold so I don’t have to see the moon, black body paint so the moon can’t see me, a thermos of warm milk and a streetsweeper shotgun.
The people who are spreading this menacing moon theory as far as I can tell do not beckon from the crackpot fringe, but are journalists working for established media outlets. (Which I guess if you’re a Tea Partier does mean they’re extremists.) They’re not agreeing with the terror scenario, but they sure aren’t examining the data very hard. For instance, this article in News.com.au quotes a scientist saying the impending "Moonageddon" won’t do much except change the tidal levels ever so slightly. Then comes the big BUT:
But try telling that to anyone who suffered through the New England hurricane in 1938, or the Hunter Valley floods of 1955. Both happened during lunar perigrees.
Cyclone Tracy in 1974 and Hurricance Katrina in 2005 also coincided with SuperMoons, or at least, very close to.
A “perigree” describes the moon’s closest approach to earth in its irregular orbit. “During,” in the context of this article, apparently means “somewhere in the same year, or maybe the one before or after.” For instance, Cyclone Tracy hit Australia on Christmas Eve, 1974. The closest SuperMoon was on Jan. 27, 1975. I wouldn’t considered those two events “very close to” each other, especially if I was paying an astrologer to pin down the date to play 01081975 lotto numbers.
Hurricane Katrina made land on the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, which was 10 days after the SuperMoon for that month. The 1938 New England hurricane happened on Sept. 21, three weeks after a SuperMoon. Australia’s Hunter River experienced mass flooding and property destruction in February 1955, two whole months before and after bookending SuperMoons.
I realize we’re not exactly talking NASA-level science here, but the arbitrariness of this particular astrological prediction is annoying. I could just pick harmless events that happened around SuperMoons and use them to formulate a theory stating that nobody should ever pay astrologers for readings again. Oh look, I did:
Jan. 25, 1948: One day before an Extreme SuperMoon, a braking malfunction at a Los Angeles rail yard sent a runaway train crashing through a concrete wall 20 feet above street level. Fortunately, the train stopped in time and didn’t fall, and nobody was injured.
Nov. 10, 1954: On this Extreme SuperMoon, Sen. Joe McCarthy issued a press release calling a Congressional committee the "unwitting handmaiden," "involuntary agent" and "attorneys-in-fact" of the Communist Party. Rather than propel the senator into further Red-Scare stardom, these words lead the Senate to censure him and wipe his stain off the halls of Congress for good.
Feb. 26, 1975: An Extreme SuperMoon loomed on this date, and yet Elvis still had 2 years on the clock. He managed to sign autographs in the parking lot of the Memphian Theatre in Memphis without dropping dead.
Dec. 2, 1990: Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills deployed their game-changing "K-Gun" offense against the Philadelphia Eagles on this date, choosing not to be cowed by an Extreme SuperMoon or to huddle during their offense. The tactic baffled the Eagles and the Bills won the game 30 to 23, later making it to the Super Bowl.
March 8, 1993: MTV aired the first episode of Beavis and Butthead during an Extreme SuperMoon. The show was blamed for killing a 2-year-old girl the same year ("Yes, yes, yes! Fire, fire, fire!") and could have been quickly canceled, yet goes on to become a successful fixture for Gen-Yers and is expected to return to production soon.
I've actually heard about this before. It'll be interesting to see how things will fold from here on..
E2EK1EL
“MOBILE GIVING FOUNDATION CANADA PROGRAMS SUPPORT RELIEF EFFORT IN JAPAN
The Mobile Giving Foundation Canada, which brings the power and reach of mobile phones to registered charities as a fundraising and donor interaction mechanism, has enabled several new text message donation programs for Canadian charities to assist with their earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan. The charities listed below are offering Canadians the opportunity to give through their mobile phones by texting any “KEYWORD” to its associated short code. Donors will then receive a message asking them to confirm their donation with a “YES” reply. A one-time charge of $5 or $10 will be added to the donor’s wireless bill or deducted from their prepaid balance. 100% of each donation will go to the donor’s chosen charity. Service is available on most carriers.
• The Canadian Red Cross Society: Text “ASIA” or “ASIE” to 30333 ($5).
• The Salvation Army in Canada: Text “QUAKE” to 45678 ($10).
• UNICEF: Text “GIVE” to 45678 ($5).”
jester
As long as the nuclear reactor doesn't go Chernobyl on them it is all good. I hope they are monitoring Mt. Fuji :/ That's all Japan needs... water eating the country inwards and lava pushing them towards the water :/
jad
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
“MOBILE GIVING FOUNDATION CANADA PROGRAMS SUPPORT RELIEF EFFORT IN JAPAN
The Mobile Giving Foundation Canada, which brings the power and reach of mobile phones to registered charities as a fundraising and donor interaction mechanism, has enabled several new text message donation programs for Canadian charities to assist with their earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan. The charities listed below are offering Canadians the opportunity to give through their mobile phones by texting any “KEYWORD” to its associated short code. Donors will then receive a message asking them to confirm their donation with a “YES” reply. A one-time charge of $5 or $10 will be added to the donor’s wireless bill or deducted from their prepaid balance. 100% of each donation will go to the donor’s chosen charity. Service is available on most carriers.
• The Canadian Red Cross Society: Text “ASIA” or “ASIE” to 30333 ($5).
• The Salvation Army in Canada: Text “QUAKE” to 45678 ($10).
• UNICEF: Text “GIVE” to 45678 ($5).”
I don't trust these 'mobile' charity schemes. You don't know how much of your money actually ends up there. If you want to donate, get in contact with the charities to find out what sort of tangible goods people need there. There's less corruption when it comes to donating canned foods and used clothing than there is with money.. especially during emergency situations.
