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Thread ID: 134823	2013-08-19 00:42:00	NZ earthquake prediction	kingdragonfly (309)	PC World Chat

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1351555	2013-08-19 00:42:00	This youtube video is "predicting" the next earthquake. www.youtube.com Mercury + Sun alignment is supposed to equal earthquake. In my opinion, it's complete bullocks. Mercury is 0.00002% the mass of the sun. This is the same percentage as the population of Australia Norfolk Island, 2,300, compared to the whole world's population. And don't get me started on the distances.	kingdragonfly (309)
1351556	2013-08-19 01:42:00	how accurate were his previous predictions?	1101 (13337)
1351557	2013-08-19 01:44:00	And another here www.stuff.co.nz but a radio news report yesterday said the chances were low. My prediction, these goofs don't know s**t.	Renegade (16270)
1351558	2013-08-19 01:56:00	It's a bit like the weather predictions, sooner or later it will happen and they can then write their own story and set up their own 'How to Walk on Water' academy.	Marnie (4574)
1351559	2013-08-19 02:43:00	That's even stupider than Ken Rings moon theories, if there was a reliable way to predict earthquakes with our current knowledge we would be doing it. There isn't. Gravity is a weak force, the gravity of distant bodies has a tiny effect almost impossible to measure. To suggest strong influences on anything let alone predict earthquakes from an earth, sun, mercury, alignment is the worst kind of irresponsible charlatanry. These guys should be forced to display an official disclaimer that translates roughly as "I don't know what the hell I'm talking about". Consider this, when the moon passes over head do you feel lighter, does your scale show you've lost weight? and that's the strongest gravitational field influencing this planet outside of it's own gravity.	dugimodo (138)
1351560	2013-08-19 06:39:00	Consider this, when the moon passes overhead do you feel lighter, does your scale show you've lost weight? and that's the strongest gravitational field influencing this planet outside of it's own gravity. Fish can swim closer to the shoreline when the moon is overhead (high tide), so if the gravitation field is strong enough to 'lift' the water levels, I believe we could detect a weight difference. Problem is though, our weight changes contantly as we eat, drink, sweat and excrete (boxers sweat off weight in steam rooms to meet their 'weight for grade' limit), so we don't really have a stable baseline to reference against. If we did, it is highly likely that a change would be detectable. Maybe they should weigh corpses (animals, not humans) hermetically sealed in plastic so that nothing can escape. I sure wouldn't bet the Bank on there being no measurable weight difference over cycles of the moon, or even daily. The human body is a complex container of chemically enhanced water so it can't avoid being gravimetrically attracted by the moon. Refute that if you can, but do supply references to [genuine] authorities, not opinions, that confirm your view. Cheers Billy 8-{) :2cents:	Billy T (70)
1351561	2013-08-19 06:40:00	Its not to do with mercury, its all to do with Elenin (www.alamongordo.com). Its easy to predict of another "jolt" after the event. ( real rocket science there) ;) Guess we all missed the mass media warning last week advising of a pending Earthquake within the next few days :rolleyes: These guys got the idea HERE (images1.fanpop.com) & HERE (mail.esdnl.ca) :D Trouble is theres so many theories and predictions you cant believe any of them. What happened to the end on the world on 20/12/2012 -- oh yeah Didn't happen. ;)	wainuitech (129)
1351562	2013-08-19 07:43:00	from en.wikipedia.org The nominal "average" value at the Earth's surface, known as standard gravity is, by definition, 9.80665 m/s2 The gravitational effects of the Moon and the Sun (also the cause of the tides) have a very small effect on the apparent strength of Earth's gravity, depending on their relative positions; typical variations are 2 µm/s2 (0.2 mGal) over the course of a day. I am not refuting the moon exerts a pull on us, just that you won't find a bathroom scale accurate enough to measure it and you won't feel it either. Look at those numbers Earths gravity 9.8 m/s2, variation due to moon and sun of .000002 m/s2 daily typically. That equates to the earth's gravity being 4.9 MILLION times stronger than the moon at sea level on earth. Measure that difference on your bathroom scale I dare you.	dugimodo (138)
1351563	2013-08-19 07:59:00	That's even stupider than Ken Rings moon theories, if there was a reliable way to predict earthquakes with our current knowledge we would be doing it. There isn't. If there was the insurance companies would most likely be canceling policies in areas where they were forecast to happen..	paulw (1826)
1351564	2013-08-19 08:12:00	If there was the insurance companies would most likely be canceling policies in areas where they were forecast to happen.. Nah ... they just raise the premiums. :annoyed:	WalOne (4202)
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