Earthquakes on demand
Two months ago, this blog ran a post on earthquakes, looking at the uncanny ability of people with a certain, shall we say, political mindset, to predict these natural phenomena. The example given was a terrorist group, Aum Shinrikyo and their ability to predict Kobe:
In an 8 January 1995 radio broadcast, Asahara stated “Japan will be attacked by an earthquake in 1995. The most likely place is Kobe.”
There followed an earthquake and a combined attack on the subway system, using nerve gas. Investigation traced them back to an obscure farm in Australia, where they’d been experimenting with Tesla earthquake inducing technology. Apparently, they have oodles of money from somewhere.
Still, nothing was proven and everyone had forgotten about it. However, today, Angus Dei carries a piece:
Iran is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate. Tehran straddles scores of fault lines, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, another prominent hard-line cleric, urged Iranians last month to give alms and pray for forgiveness to prevent earthquakes. Hours later, four small earthquakes struck different corners of Iran.
You make of that what you will.
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Predictable, if you would pardon the pun.
Physics as we know it is in an evolutionary cul de sac.
Time will tell. Thinkers are ignored and black-balled.
Scientists from 6000 + years ago held the key. Religion took over with its lunacy, as a method of protecting the status quo,…secrecy prevailed,…restricted to the honoured few,…so we are where we are..spending hundreds of billions to create nanosecond lines on graphs.
The evidence is there, around us, but blinded by spin-offs from religious thinking, we are taught to read the facts wrongly.
It’s almost the equivalent of the eternal war, with consent guaranteed.
On the other hand James, having an earthquake in Kobe or across Iran is hardly surprising given that they are not the most seismically stable parts of the world.