8.9 Magnitude Quake Hits Japan

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    Dean

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    It starts off pretty compelling and interesting, then she goes all Stephen Colbert and starts making random stabs at connecting things.
     
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    She was dead on about the alignment stuff though. Pretty crazy!
     
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    I didn't watch the video but all I've got to say if it's any religious end of the world conspircay I am going to fucking LOSE IT.
     
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    Well why don't you see for yourself? It's presents some solid evidence towards the beginning but trails off to some religious stuff towards the end. There's also another clip of a scientist predicting the disaster at the very end.
     
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    I stopped watching after she couldn't figure out that the "thing falling from the sky that wasn't reported" is actually a contrail illuminated by the sun.. The beginning is pretty interesting though..
     
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    wow... according to the radio, the sunday times and the infaliable wiki, the earthquake in Japan alteres the axis of the Earth by 9.8 inches and slow the rotation of the Earth by 1.8 microsecond o_O.... wow and Japan, itself, moved by 2.4 meters!
     
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    Does this mean they have to recalculate all the astroid trajectories relative of earth and such?
     
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    Yeah, it's true. Although the last year's Chile earthquake was even worse in that respect, it shortened the length of the day for 6.8 microseconds.

    Don't worry, nothing's gonna hit us in 2012 :p
     
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    Jeez, this reactor things is scaring the living bejeezus out of me

    http://www.latimes.com/news/science...mostviewed+(L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories)


    That's extremely stupid. Anybody can connect made up dots to made up dots. Gimme someone who's a scientist who actually knows what they're talking about. Not some blabbermouth that's wiki-walking.
     
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    Thats INSANE.

    First in my life to see this. What a tragedy :(

    Its tough to hear some of my Asian international friends are worried, and even more so that I hear many people have friends overseas that they met while on work or something lost someone or is waiting for to hear back.. I hope they're okay. I hope everything recovers quickly.
     
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    http://www.japanquakemap.com/

    This is a pretty interesting map that shows the 566 quakes and aftershocks that hit off the coat of Japan from 3/11 through now.

    By the way, 'wait for it.'
     
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    I'm so glad I live in an area of the world where this doesn't happen.
     
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    Apparently the tsunami warning has already been lifted. Thank God.
     
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    Unfortunate events indeed, but thus is life in the ring of fire.
     

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