Aneirin -> RE: can nuclear testing set off eathquakes ? (3/15/2011 5:17:03 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or "There is nothing in the power of humans to move anything with that much mass even a fraction of a millimeter, and there almost certainly never will be." Not true, but I will agree that the effect even if measurable would be insignificant. At least for the most part. Absolutely true. Let's take a very small plate, the Caribbean Plate. It's a little more than a million square miles, about a million two. We'll round down, and call it a million. It's mostly oceanic, so let's say it has an average thickness of 10 miles. So, we have a total volume of 10,000,000 square miles. Calculate the number of cubic feet in a cubic mile, and you get a figure of 147,197,952,000. So, you have a total of 1,471,979,520,000,000,000 cubic feet (1.471 quintillion cubic feet) of mass in the Caribbean Plate. Multiply that by the weight of granite (166.5 lbs per cubic foot) and you get a total weight of 245,084,590,080,000,000,000 lbs - almost 2.5 sextillion tons of mass. And that's just a very small plate - 1.2 million square miles. The Pacific Plate is 39,000,000 square miles. If you can explain to me some sort of man made mechanism that can move 2.5 sextillion pounds, I'd be very interested in knowing what it is. Until someone does explain it to me, I'm going to continue to maintain that there is absolutely nothing humankind to do to impart momentum to a mass of that scale. What am trying to get at here, is the fact that underground nuclear testing causes vibrations in the earth, and no matter how large of how small they are, over a period of time vibrations can mount up enough to be an irritation to unstable situations. Now given the frequency of nuclear detonations as was tested in the 1960's through to the 1980's by many nations comparing there dicks, that is a lot of vibrations in the earth that would not have been there otherwise, so is there a possibility that the flexing of military muscles could have destabilised what nature was dealing with already as part of the world's natural action ? Now global warming though perhaps connected or unconnected, it appears mankind so we are told is affecting world climate and with that nature, if we have the power to alter the climate, why is it not considered that we could be irritating the continental plates with our how many whatever comparisons of millions of tons of TNT drilled into the earth's crust and there detonated so scientists can design bigger ones, oh, and generals can get hard ?
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