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Anticipating Earthquakes
dnahelix writes "Science @ NASA reports 'High above Earth where seismic waves never reach, satellites may be able to detect earthquakes--before they strike.'"
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These quakes are like, sooooo psychadelic, man.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
We had a small earthquake a while ago, and about a minute before it happened my miniature pinscher jumped on my back and woke me up. If a single minpin can predict an earthquake a minute before it happens then a beowulf cluster of 1024 minpins could give people several hours notice.
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
"...with a likely chance of showers. Tomorrow's forecast also includes a 20% chance of EarthQuakes on the 7.0 scale. Watch out Los Angeles, you could have a shaky morning. Phil." "That's right Tom, and speaking of shaky mornings, here's Wolf with the sports..."
Jason Lotito
The glass is half empty...
Who knows when the next Quake is coming? What will probably happen is that they'll predict a date but when the date arrives the Quake will be nowhere to be seen and then the Quake people will announce another date that may or may not be accurate.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
'High above the internet where packets never reach, satellites may be able to detect the slashdot effect--before it strikes.'
Note that there might be some practical considerations having a cow in, say, L.A.
You could always use sheeps bladders...
- m4. f0x
"Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." -Mark Twain
...before they strike.
This is a follow up to a previous program that was predicting them after they struck. Just last year they managed to predict the 1906 San Francisco Quake with amazing accuracy, and results like that are money in the bank for further research.
(Five minutes of rumbling, cracking and breaking glass and then silence).
Chronic flatulence, apparently.
Good point - I was getting earthquakes confused with Godzilla attacks. Though while *you* may know that, I suspect a great proportion Joe Public would still want to get out of the city completely, which could cause gridlock, people stuck in their cars when the quake strikes, etc.
"Slashdot effect?"
"Yes Captain... back in the late 20th century spanning to the early 21st century, a web news site called Slashdot...."
"Get to the point Data..."
"Yes Captain... if we overload the Borg's systems with excessively massive activity... it might, in theory, cause their servers to melt into charred silicon...as the venacular went."
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