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Video: A machine that can forecast quakes
Cnet News ^
| 4/19/06
| staff
Posted on 04/19/2006 7:49:45 PM PDT by grandpa jones
QuakeFinder's QF-1005 Ground Instrument predicts future quakes QuakeFinder CEO Tom Bleier explains the functionality of the QF-1005 Ground Instrument, a machine that can telegraph future earthquakes.
1 minute 30 seconds
Apr 19, 2006 6:57:00 PM
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: earthquake; forecasting; homelandsecurity
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Click the link to see the video. Interesting stuff
To: grandpa jones
Everyone knows that Rove invented this.
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posted on
04/19/2006 7:54:44 PM PDT
by
TomServo
("But Paris was destroyed in the apocalypse, Winky...")
To: grandpa jones
"A machine that can forecast quakes"
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posted on
04/19/2006 7:56:11 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Screaming ALREADY POSTED! since 2004)
To: jdm
Damn, That look like my old computer...The piece of crap wouldn't run Quake II, nevermind forcasting one.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:01:16 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: grandpa jones
Cool!
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:02:30 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: jdm
Hmmmm, I wonder what the steering wheel is for?
To: grandpa jones
Quake prediction has been a graveyard of ideas.
Everything that looks promising ends up flat on its face.
The USGS has largely abandoned the whole idea of actual quake forecasts for specific times for hazard assessment.
I'm generally on the side of the debate that believes there will NEVER be actual useful specific warnings for earthquakes.
To: grandpa jones
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:11:36 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Eat beef. Someone has to control the cow population!)
To: darkwing104; Alamo-Girl
Be nice, since there are some Freepers who have been Software Engineers for such a long, that they have personal knowledge of early computers like this.
At least the key-punch machine had been invented when I first learned to be a programmer, and I was able to pay my way though college from that earned income.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:14:02 PM PDT
by
Hunble
To: Strategerist
Human flight has been a graveyard of ideas.
Everything that looks promising ends up flat on its face.
I'm generally on the side of the debate that believes there will NEVER be actual useful means of flying for humans.
You sound like you stepped right out of the 80's. The 1880's.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:15:23 PM PDT
by
MacDorcha
(In Theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.)
To: Hunble
I too first learned the punch-key cards...Things have changed with light-speed!
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:16:48 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: grandpa jones
Hmmmm, I wonder what the steering wheel is for?
To steer the submarine.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:17:49 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: MacDorcha
Totally different endeavors.
We know that there will never be, say, specific forecasts of hurricane landfall locations a year, or even a month ahead of time..that's been proven mathematically.
It's a chaotic system for which there will never be perfect data.
Anyway, anyone actually investing in this company would do as well to pile some cash up and light it on fire.
To: Hunble
I first learned to program using punch cards. The first word processor I used was on a Zenith Z-100...That was when I was an Airman Stationed in South Dakota.
I never touch or seen a computer in high school.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:18:34 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: lainie; Darksheare; Quilla; SubMareener; Esther Ruth; kimchi lover; sf4dubya; Lijahsbubbe; ...
Earthquake Ping List. Please send a Freepmail if you want to be added
or removed from this list.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:19:10 PM PDT
by
bd476
To: July 4th
I thought that the wheel was what you hung on to during the earthquake. I hope that the TV is well-attached!
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:19:26 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: jdm
oooo, it spoke Fortran! I'll bet that that Window on the wall used tubes.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:20:39 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: darkwing104
I think I first learned on a PDP-11. It took an entire room to contain it, and the temp had to be cold.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:21:50 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: bannie
IBM Keypunch
This is the type of IBM keypunch machine used in the 1960s and 1970s. Operators by the tens of thousands would spend a full shift keypunching orders, time cards and a host of other transactions.
....................
I payed for my college education with this machine!
Of course, we were required to produce 2,000 cards per hour, and that was the most difficult job that I have ever had in my life.
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posted on
04/19/2006 8:25:56 PM PDT
by
Hunble
To: jdm
I wonder what the steering wheel is for... :)
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