Jared Diamond.

The Guardian has got Jared Diamond (Guns,Germs and Steel is fabulous. I’m less enamoured of Collapse, the new one, from what I’ve seen of it in extracts.) to answer questions online. You’ve got until the 20th to ask your questions here. One already in the queue is this, which I think might be an early contender for Moonbat of the Year award:

I read recently that
the earthquake of December 26 and the resulting tsunami may have been
caused by a previous earthquake of magnitude 8.1 that occurred more
than 500 miles southease of Tasmania on December 24th
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/ussjal.htm). Previous to
the Dec 24 earthquake there had been tests of the ocean floors to test
for oil and gas using "sound bombings" or seismic tests of the ocean
floor – that create low frequency sound waves powerful enough to
penetrate up to 40 km below the seafloor, and are between 200 and 230
decibels of sound
(http:independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=10211&fcategory_desc=Uner%20reported).
A jet plane on take off is 120 decibels.
(http://www.hdhearing.com/Learning/How%20to%20Analyze%20Hearing%20Loss/Decibels.htm).
There were numerous whales themselves during the last few months near
where the tests took place in Tasmania.

In
has been demonstrated that mankind’s activities in oil exploration can
cause seismic activity
(http://www.oilfield.slb.com/media/resources/oilfieldreview/ors00/sum00/p2_17.pdf).
To make a long story shorter, do you think it is possible that the
"sound bombings" of the ocean floor could have caused the first quake,
which then dominoed into the second and larger quake?

Yup, the tsunami caused by oil companies raping Gaia.

4 responses

  1. 40 kilometers ? They’re getting datsa from 40 KILOMETERS ???? I’ve got news for you, bud – you rarely get useable seismic data from as deep as 10 kilometers. And the energy involved in single ‘shot’ or ‘pop’ is way, way under even a modest air-dropped conventional bomb. The energy doesn’t penetrate 40 kilometers, though – it pemetrates the entire earth, as does the energy from you jumping up and down out in the parking lot. It is just completely undetectable and totally insignificant in the energy regime of plate tectonics. BTW, I am an oil industry geophysicist with 30 years of practice, so on this one I know whereof I speak.

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    Slowking Man

    Also, the frothing moonbats fail to note that the seismic activity and subsequent tsunami combined had the power of something to the tune of 100,000 A-bombs. Of course, I wouldn’t put the theory that Bushitler launched every nuke in the world at that exact same spot past some on the Left.

  3. My name is Chris O’Connor and I run an online nonfiction book discussion community called BookTalk.org. This is an invitation for you to check us out and hopefully get involved in the book discussion. We read almost exclusively science too!
    We’re currently reading Collapse and expect to have a live online chat session with Professor Diamond near the end of June. You and your friends are invited and encouraged to join us in the discussion and chat session.
    Here is a list of past authors that we’ve read and had as guests in our chat room…
    Upcoming Author Chats
    A. C. Grayling – pending
    Jane Goodall – pending
    Howard Bloom – pending
    Jared Diamond – pending
    Chat and Interview Transcripts
    Howard Bloom – Reinventing Capitalism
    Lee Harris – Civilization & Its Enemies
    Ann Druyan – Pale Blue Dot
    Michael Shermer – How We Believe
    Matt Ridley – The Red Queen
    Stephen Pinker – The Blank Slate
    Massimo Pigliucci – Rationally Speaking
    Richard Dawkins – Unweaving the Rainbow
    Howard Bloom – Global Brain
    Howard Bloom – The Lucifer Principle
    Feel free to ask questions or simple visit the following links… And please spread the word to your science-minded friends.
    http://www.booktalk.org/index.php Home
    http://pub141.ezboard.com/bbooktalk Forums
    http://p090.ezboard.com/fbooktalkfrm87 Collapse forum
    http://p090.ezboard.com/fbooktalkfrm51 Guns, Germs And Steel forum
    Chris
    Chris O’Connor
    BookTalk.org – the freethinkers book discussion community
    http://www.booktalk.org
    chris@booktalk.org
    PO Box 4624
    Clearwater, FL 33758
    Chris

  4. I thought you might be interested in seeing my review of the PBS program in July 8 Science. You can access a text version on my Web site at:
    http://www.michaelbalter.com/NeolithicNews/07_25_2005|Review_of_Guns_Germs_and_Steel.php
    all best, Michael Balter, Science
    http://www.michaelbalter.com

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