http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/ Landsat_Tsunami.html
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/ Landsat_Tsunami.html
According to those articles written by NASA, that Earthquake that caused the Tsunami set Earth's rotation slightly off, decreasing the length of the day, reshaped a portion of the planet, and moved the polar ice caps up by centimeters. I say a few more quake's like this, and Earth's inhabitants are doomed.
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 Jan 13 2005, 3:03 pm
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Kinda...Worrying. No WONDER I get busted for not doing homework. "The Tsunami took away my time, miss!" | |
Tiko wrote:
Yeah, a fraction of second shorter a day and a centimeter moved in the arctic. Yep. We're all doomed. Then you obviously didn't think too much on the situation. What if an earthquake of a much larger scale happens on or near a major fault line near the ice caps, or in the Altantic Ocean? Simple: the ice caps will break up & drift into warmer waters, flooding the oceans & flooding continents, destroying homes, entire species of animals & plants, and killing countless people. | |
Anymore weather like this and we are doomed. Ever seen The Day After Tomarrow? Heh, freak weather is happening around the globe, including in my own state. Kinda scary.
Most people are blaming global warming for the weather of the past years, though i couldn't say that for the tsunami. | |
According to those articles written by NASA, that Earthquake that caused the Tsunami set Earth's rotation slightly off, decreasing the length of the day, reshaped a portion of the planet, and moved the polar ice caps up by centimeters. I say a few more quake's like this, and Earth's inhabitants are doomed. Did you actually click on the link and get the detailed number on how much has changed? Not even close to being the end of the world :P. It would have had to be a whole lot larger. | |
Theodis wrote:
According to those articles written by NASA, that Earthquake that caused the Tsunami set Earth's rotation slightly off, decreasing the length of the day, reshaped a portion of the planet, and moved the polar ice caps up by centimeters. I say a few more quake's like this, and Earth's inhabitants are doomed. Yes but, still - it doesn't take much to cause a climate shift. =P | |
Teh Governator wrote:
Then you obviously didn't think too much on the situation. The Earth will split into two pieces, of course! Thank goodness there isn't, or isn't supposed to be that much energy available for an earthquake. | |
Kunark wrote:
Anymore weather like this and we are doomed. Ever seen The Day After Tomarrow? Heh, freak weather is happening around the globe, including in my own state. Kinda scary. The Tsunami was core-related, but still spooky. A few days after the Tsunami, my relative's town, Carlisle, in Northern England flooded. My cousin had to swim out of her new house- and THAT was on a higher level than all the other houses. An entire town surrounded, power out, no electricity. And then it moved south, we've been getting really bad winds and loads of water. It's clearing up now, but England's in a mess. With respect, can the USA stop polluting? It's actions and the consequences of global warming (the rest of the world has signed up to Kyoto) is/are screwing up me and my families lives. Damn you Bush. | |
Yes but, still - it doesn't take much to cause a climate shift. =P You've been watching too many bad movies :P. | |
kerry would have so many "plans" he would eventually have to burn a couple million papers filled with these "plans". Anyway why dont we just get the whole United States population to take over factorys and if that doesnt work we shove potatoes down the chimneys so nothing can leave o.o
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Strawgate wrote:
kerry would have so many "plans" he would eventually have to burn a couple million papers filled with these "plans". Let's not turn this into a "who should've won" debate now... >_> | |
Teh Governator wrote:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/ Landsat_Tsunami.html Uhhh the whether we get for the next decade O.o is whether thats not affected by the tsunami. So stop going pyscho. Besides global warming has screwed us too much any way for this Tsunami to be noticed. | |
The bible stuff is comming true now its the end of the world :/
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You know, that sounds interestingly like what we humans are doing to the planet! You know, with the melting the ice caps and killing entire species of plants and animals.
The day gets longer all the time, that'll go away, the centimetre shift in the Arctic is nothing, and the scenario you're suggesting is impossible. You do realize that earthquakes measuring 9.8 on the Richter scale are incredibly rare? This was probably the first one for thousands of years. | |
Jp wrote:
You do realize that earthquakes measuring 9.8 on the Richter scale are incredibly rare? This was probably the first one for thousands of years. actually, a little research shows that large scale earthquakes in the range of 8+ happen annually on average. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/faq/hist.html) from most of the googled sources (newspaper sites, USGS website, BBC, CNN, etc.) the quake off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia during Christmas was 9.0, not 9.8. Since 1900, the earthquake in Chile on May 22, 1960, is the biggest in the World with magnitude 9.5 Mw (according to USGS earthquake data). from looking at http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/eqstats.html and http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0763403.html seems we've had quite a few 8.0 and greater quakes just in the last 100 years (notice the Indonesian quake is in the middle of that group in the last link). | |
Not.