ScienceShot: The Mystery of the Absent Sunspots

ScienceNOW ^ | 2 March 2011 | Edwin Cartlidge

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ I’ve never understood how these people come up with this data. I guess that’s why I never entered this field.

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All you need is a fertile imagination.

[odds]

Earthquakes and tsunamis are not the planet taking revenge on man -- "There is no rhyme or reason to an earthquake, and we should for once abandon our infantile delusion that we are the cause and maker of everything."

[andy58-in-nh]

The same guy who wrote "The Catcher in the Fly"

Nahh. that was J.D. Bugzapper.

[odds]

Interesting to view the poll result at the bottom of the linked article.

[SunkenCiv]

Volcanoes are Earth’s way of playing “pull my finger”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks odds, will check it out.

[odds]

I just heard on only 1 tv station, so far here in oz. that an earthquake (tremor) measuring 4.0 hit Cairns/Australia (Northern QLD).

What’s happening in Japan (earthquakes & tsunami), we are told here in oz, is a Northern Hemisphere thing, unlikely to affect us in Australia, but who knows... Tho, in oz, we are much more prone to cyclones, floods & bushfires. Earthquakes/tremors have never been that severe in oz except for example the one in New Castle in the late 1980’s, even then not comparable to any thing in Japan or SF/LA/USA. as examples. But, seems to show that the entire Pacific/Asia Pacific region is very unstable at present.

[Pecos]

Isn’t that a line from Spaceballs?

[UCANSEE2]

I think that's the name of a novel by Robert A. Heineken.

I'll drink to that.

[UCANSEE2]

All you need is a fertile imagination.

And government funding.

[Erasmus]

Could be. But I heard it in a Pollack joke from a housemate in 1965.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks odds.