[Thinkin' Gal]

Because of Sunday's gargantuan quake, planet Earth is ringing like a church bell.

[ProudVet77]

Wong is wrong. A churchbell is not hit by a tong, it's hit by a clapper.
He is also wrong that this changed the earth's mass. The mass of the earth is the same, it's just vibrating. The strange thing is that Stony Brook used to be the home of a very good physics department. A lot of the guys from Brookhaven Labs used to get their post graduate degrees there as well as teach there.

[farmfriend]

ping

[JockoManning]

bookmark:
"This changed the Earth's mass. As the mass returns to normal, it moves back and forth, much like a church bell when struck by a tong, said Stony Brook geophysicist Teng-fong Wong."

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Wong was weally wong about the tong making a bong wike a gong.

[Caipirabob]

The quake caused a shift in the Earth's rotation, as the change in the planet's mass altered the effect of the pull of gravity on the Earth.

The same thing happens every time Michael Moore sits down or stands up.

[VOYAGER]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling, oh woe is us!

More "Scare Tactics"?

The liberal bleating continues.

[capitan_refugio]

The writer got one thing wrong ...

The mass of the earth did not change due to the earthquake. It was redistributed.

[Tigen]

Keep an eye on these.
http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml

[Woodworker]

Teng-fong Wong say, "Earth go bong! Like Temple Gong! Make ding-dong-song, but not change mass, reporter misquote too fast, but error always last, make me look wong, like some ding-dong!"

[Zeroisanumber]

Just how does an earthquake change the Earth's mass?

[FReepaholic]

Darn right the Earth is ringing. Check out these seismographs:

LIVE SEISMOGRAPHS

They've actually calmed down today. They were all black for the past two days.

[Lil'freeper]

was caused by the shifting of geological plates along a 600-mile area.

To pile on and nitpick further.... if it's truly "area" it should be square miles. If it is the length of the fault, he should say so.

[Route101]

My ears were ringing.....I thought it was the two six packs...

[corlorde]

Stop it people, I'm in tears here...damn if this thread isn't funny!

[docbnj]

Good grief! These newspaper writers know absolutely nothing about science.

The Earth's mass did not change. It shifted a tiny bit, but the mass didn't change. All this psuedo-scientific talk from the press only distracts from the real tragedy of people being swept to their deaths by waves of water and debris.

[Scythian]

It is strange, the coffee in my cup is vibrating in a strange but regular pattern. Last night, everything metal slid towards one side of our house and it happened to 3 of our neighbors as well.

[Raycpa]

Bush should be impeached. This crap would not be happening if he had only signed the Kyotto Treaty and stopped the global warming.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 12/28/2004. Dunno who added the earthquake keyword, but it seemed a little odd at first that I'd not heard anything about it. :') The late FReeper kattracks contributed this under-visited thread, which is why it seems a good idea to add this to catastrophism.

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