Natural Disaster Thread!!
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They aren't increasing, it's just the fact that the media seem to reporting them more often than they have been in years past.
Large earthquakes in fact are occurring at a pretty stable rate. Volcanoes eruptions also seem to be happening on a pretty even rate as well.
Or something about 2012, that's what people really want to talk about, right........
Large earthquakes in fact are occurring at a pretty stable rate. Volcanoes eruptions also seem to be happening on a pretty even rate as well.
Or something about 2012, that's what people really want to talk about, right........
PirateKing
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It's all about hyping up 2012. I can't wait to piss on the Mayans and Nostradamus when 2013 comes. Metaphorically of course....
They aren't increasing, it's just the fact that the media seem to reporting them more often than they have been in years past.
Large earthquakes in fact are occurring at a pretty stable rate.
Or something about 2012, that's what people really want to talk about, right........
Hmmm...I can't recall in my life time as many in a short period of time causing this much death. Hundreds of people just died in China...they are so common we're not even making a big deal out of 4 or 5 hundred people die in China.
You don't think the death tolls could be an after effect of the population boom and the expansion that comes from it? Moving living quarters into unsafe areas, unworkable safety regulations, poverty - can all become variables in the "why" so many die after an earthquake. Of course the earthquake is another one, but judging by the data there doesn't seem to be any correlation to the notion that they're increasing. Just our ability to locate them better.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php
What a dumb fuck!!! :violent:
Well...I don't know what the scenario would be but we damn sure seem to be having frequent occurrences of of 7 plus earthquakes...
We are really in a fragile predicament all things considered when you examine the layers of the earth..
They aren't increasing, it's just the fact that the media seem to reporting them more often than they have been in years past.
Large earthquakes in fact are occurring at a pretty stable rate. Volcanoes eruptions also seem to be happening on a pretty even rate as well.
Or something about 2012, that's what people really want to talk about, right........
While I usually think this BlueBalls is dumb as a sack of Greek pubic hair, I think he's about right on this issue.
BlueBalls is still a twat, though.
jod0565
Member, you member...
Not a dick head though, right?
Goddamn global warming Icelandic pricks.
Well, yes, in fact. He's also a dick head.
He may actually have the name richard cranium...
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
It's social Darwinism, right? I mean, did we really need all of those (economically) poor Haitians? I think not...
Gentlemen, I have come to bring you truth. For this is not what the heathen scientists have lead you to believe. This ridiculous notion of "plate tectonics" is blasphemy! NO, science and plate tectonics do not exist and those that believe in them are surely going to burn in the fiery depths of hell for all eternity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/19/women-blame-earthquakes-iran-cleric
:eek:
For you see it is the evil women and their breasts and lack of testicles that are the cause of all of the hardship. If only these whores of Satan would remove themselves from civilised society, forcibly if necessary to be shunned by all, only to be brought out to cook or to penetrate then the entire world would be a far safer place than it is today. God would obviously not be vengeful.
Damn you vile temptresses! Leave us alone and stop trying to tempt us into sin!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/19/women-blame-earthquakes-iran-cleric
:eek:
For you see it is the evil women and their breasts and lack of testicles that are the cause of all of the hardship. If only these whores of Satan would remove themselves from civilised society, forcibly if necessary to be shunned by all, only to be brought out to cook or to penetrate then the entire world would be a far safer place than it is today. God would obviously not be vengeful.
Damn you vile temptresses! Leave us alone and stop trying to tempt us into sin!
Legzman
what the fuck you lookin at?
oh, boy not another nut job. :fight:
Don't know where to put this, but now clean air causes global warming... go figure
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/18/opinion/la-oe-kintisch18-2010apr18
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/18/opinion/la-oe-kintisch18-2010apr18
I also think there is no real increase in natural disasters. Media reporting makes them front page news and through global media we find out about all the earthquakes and volcanoes along with pictures/videos in every corner of the globe, whereas in previous decades it'd only make local news. Also the last 50 odd years have seen booms in civilian aviation, cars, high rise accomodation as well as increased populations, so when disaster strikes death tolls are often higher esp when buildings/bridges collapse with many people inside. The Iceland volcano would'nt have even been major news if it hadn't disrupted air travel across Europe, when it last erupted it was just as bad but made little news as very few people were directly affected.
