Zanarkin Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 (edited) Define random. They are caused by rocks moving. Why do the rocks move? Something about changes in pressure and some shit as stuff at the bottom rises to the top. Well they are random in the sense that you cannot predict them. Why? IIRC, the rocks create fiction against eachother and cause them to create pressure. This pressure could be released after a short while and therefore the earthquake isn't too powerful, or it could take years before its actually released. If its the latter, the earthquake is likely to be very high in the ricther scale. So yes every earthquake is random because you never know when the pressure is going to be released. Edited August 26, 2011 by SlayerX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaMonkey Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 (edited) I was in Canada in new york... There's a Canada in New York? Edited August 26, 2011 by NinjaMonkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanarkin Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 There's a Canada in New York? Typo. I was in canada, near new york (i can see buffalo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Well they are random in the sense that you cannot predict them. Why? IIRC, the rocks create fiction against eachother and cause them to create pressure. This pressure could be released after a short while and therefore the earthquake isn't too powerful, or it could take years before its actually released. If its the latter, the earthquake is likely to be very high in the ricther scale. So yes every earthquake is random because you never know when the pressure is going to be released. In that case, whether I finish 10 pages of reading tomorrow is also random, as hurricane Irene might zoom in early as a result of high winds, cut off power, and leave me too dark to do a reading without doing flashlight reading, which I hate doing (not that I am actually reading books at this point, schmucks). I understand the point you were trying to get across by trying to say that earthquakes are random, but we are probably living in a universe that is simultaneously random and determined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazuki Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Thought this was pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerachi Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 We will rebuild... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Thought this was pretty funny. What's even better/worse is 10/11...IIRC a single baseball player from the yankees crashed a plane into a building, as far as we know by accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 No no, heard everything in the sense that it got a lot of news coverage. It was a joke. I'd hoped my overoptimism would have come across as sarcasm, but alas, it didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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