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13th October 2005, 06:17 AM
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Tsunami, Hurricanes, Floods and Earthquakes....
What is happening? Why is there a sudden influx in natural disasters?
First it was the Tsunami of late last year which cost 250,000 human lives. Then came the China floods, Indian floods, Katrina, Stan and now Pakistan earthquake.
Conspiracy theories aside, is the human factor responsible for these disasters. Besides Global warming, are there hidden hands working behind the scene?
Read Sidney Sheldon's "Are You Afraid of the Dark." Many countries are actually working towards controlling Earth's weather, in secret.
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13th October 2005 06:17 AM
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13th October 2005, 07:55 AM
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In the Katrina thread I had mentioned Michael Crichton's "State of Fear". A foolish but possible cause: Nature is angry at man trespassing into her private parts, probing, reseearching sacredly untouchable fields!
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13th October 2005, 07:59 AM
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NOV - do you really think so, that the possible reasons for the disasters after disasters are actually due to human activities?? Like side effects of wanting to do something rite'??
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13th October 2005, 08:59 AM
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PP, you are assuming that Nature is a thinking entity? I think man is the most dangerous being walking on Earth today. Not satisfied with clearing forests and wildlife, and then depleting its resourses, man today for very selfish reasons, wants to control nature too.
NM, I am open-minded about this. It could be side effects or worse still, it could be pre-planned or just plans gone awry. Whatever the cause, tens of thousands have become victims.
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13th October 2005, 12:05 PM
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There is a school of thought that believes grobal warming as the reason of more hurricanes. Sea is getting warmer hense hurricanes generated through cold and warm water/air movement
But there doesnt seem any relation between Earth quake and any of mans activities.
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13th October 2005, 12:26 PM
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Nov, Nature, if it were a thinking entity, only my foolish supposition, it has every reason to be outraged by all the unwanted tinkering done in the name of research. And since Nature undoubtedly is immensely more powerful than man it goes berserk in infinite wrath. May be it is threatening man with these warning signals, goading him to rethink! Just my poetic imagination!
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13th October 2005, 12:32 PM
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paavam oru pakkam, pazhi oru pakkam...
The victims of these disasters, unfortunately, are not the designers of such rape of the Earth. If you notice, it is only the poorer segment of society that faces the biggest hazards.
But strangely, the poorest and most under-developed continent, AFRICA, seems to be immune to these disasters!
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13th October 2005, 02:33 PM
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So advancement of science & technology has some correlation?!
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13th October 2005, 03:34 PM
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NOV: Very interesting topic, have been discussing this in the past few months!
From seeing too much of NGC (National Geographic channel), what I get is that while hurricanes, rising of see level, melting of the polar ice cap, etc are due to global warming, earth quakes are more because of trees being chopped and huge buildings (which require massive foundations) being built. For e.g. the Petronas towers in KL has to have a very deep foundation (world's deepest foundation at 120 meters) to hold such a tall building! And then we go around digging tunnels in the sea (The tunnel between Dover & Calais) and through mountains (the tunnels through the Alps), to make life easier for us.
Are we not disturbing mother earth when doing all this? If some one keeps poking me I will tend to atleast shrug, I guess that is what is happening!
And as for Africa, the whole of Africa is sitting on one huge tectonic plate though the border of the plate on the north is closer to land. I guess this is one reason why it does not get affected!
PS: I might completely be wrong but this is my opinion!
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17th October 2005, 01:44 PM
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