Earthquake

[Mike]

Oh god, 5.8 magnitude, 60 miles from house. House was shaking, they said felt all the way up to New York. Evacuated Capitol and Pentagon, and got like 4 emails from university telling everyone to leave the buildings and stay 500 feet away. OMGOMGOMGOMG.

[Tom]

There was a simultaneous 5.3 in Colorado, too.

You've also got a nuclear power plant in Virginia that shut down automatically and has lost offsite power. It's now using four diesel generators to maintain cooling operations.

WT is reporting that the giant phallus/pencil known as the Washington Monument may in fact be tilting after the earthquake and the structure needs to be inspected.

Have fun with that!

[Mike]

That's strange, Virginia engineering must suck, there's a nuclear plant in the next county over.

And lol about the monument, haven't heard that.

All the airports are shutdown, and they just reopened union station.

[Naroku]

FYI the earthquake went from Georgia to Canada, i felt it here in Pa as well... but if my theories are correct its not an earthquake. =)

its the same thing that caused Haiti and Japan to go under..... the US has a satellite that can cause earthquakes..... juuuuuust throwing my conspiracy theory out there lol

[Tom]

FYI the earthquake went from Georgia to Canada, i felt it here in Pa as well... but if my theories are correct its not an earthquake. =)

its the same thing that caused Haiti and Japan to go under..... the US has a satellite that can cause earthquakes..... juuuuuust throwing my conspiracy theory out there lol

You're right, but it's not a satellite though, it's a harmonic resonance superweapon. Works in the same way as an opera singer who sings a particular note to shatter crystal glass or a particular frequency used to crack rocks or shake buildings to pieces.

[Naroku]

glad im not the only one that believes this lmao

[Tom]

inb4 James calls the waaahmbulance about conspiracies, proof, etc.

[Naroku]

lol. well thanks to our wonderfull federal an state laws i jsut got another ATF liscense and an FBI one, allowing me to carry loaded Fully Automatic assault rifes in my vehicle anywhere i go. and since i already carry my handguns anyhwere except in 1 state, i am a happy person today

[Mike]

Conspiracy theories... NOPE.

[Vicious88]

I'm not concerned about the theory, so much as the science behind it.

To use a device such as Nikolia Tesla's legendary Earth Quake machine, which operates using harmonic resonance, you need to be somewhere where sound waves can travel -- meaning you could not execute an attack through a vacuum, such as space.

In fact, you'd have to position your device at the epicenter of your attack, a position most attackers would preffer not to take, so the device would have to be controlled from a great distance.

As a final thought, a harmonic resonator would operate using Molecular Momentum, and thus would require a considerable warmup peroid while the matter being shaken gains momentum. This would mean that it would be unable to do a sudden and severe earthquake, as the ground would gradually increase the severity of it's quaking. Depending on the output abilities of the device, a believable* harmonic resonator would take the better part of a week worth of constant shaking to reach the severity of a 5.0 -- and by that time, most anything that was going to fall would have already.

*Note that by "Believable" I mean simply one fitting the description of Nikolia Tesla's machine. If we had the ability to build a large enough resonator with MASSIVE resonator plates (like the size of small cities) and use partical collision to instigate the resonation chain - then yes, we could jump to a 5.0 earthquake fairly quickly (in perhaps as little as 2 minutes, by my estimate). But even the most detailed reports of Tesla's Earthquake Machine describe the building as having progressively increased in it's shaking.

So, with all of that said, I'm not OPPOSED to the theory, but rather the science. I mean, the only way a machine like this would be a practical war machine is if it's size was enough to cause a quick intense burst of vibration. But such a machine would need to be the at the very least the size of a small city, and since it'd be too large to relocate and trigger on enemy territory, it's not exceedingly practical (though that WOULD be the only real explanation of why the US Government would test it on American soil, so close to DC (It'd have to be close enough to where the massive volume work needed to construct and maintain it could be seen as routine government traffic).

But still... If it exists, it's a neat toy and nothing more. An impractical, nay impossible weapon for use in times of war. We'd have to basically have to construct trillions of dollars worth of gigantic machinery on enemy territory - erecting a structure so large that, if above ground, it we be able to be seen from space. Defending said structure, for the YEARS it would take to complete it... And then finally, after the war is over, and the structure is to be designated a war museum, trigger it from the other side of the planet.

[Naroku]

well said.... now on to the military's Rail Gun that's on the USS battleship sitting in the Gulf overseas =) i have walked on the deck of it, so its not a conspiracy theory... it looks similar to the one in the movie transformers 2 =) it look sawesome

[Vicious88]

Ah, the rail gun...

The US Navy has been testing and developing the rail gun since the early 80s, actually, and they've never really shy'd away from the topic.

In fact, they've released a lot of pictures and video, such as the 2008 picture of a railgun test shown on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun -- the flames in the image behind the projectile are not flames at all, but actually super-heated plasma from the projectiles unbelievable speed.

The only problem with the rail gun is that, unfortunately, it too is an impractical weapon. It's impractical because, quiet simply, the amount of energy needed to perform a single shot takes so long to gather and requires so many resources, that you'd find yourself hard pressed to fire a rail gun of such caliber twice in one day.

Also, from a terrain based combat perspective, there's just no reason to use a rail gun. Such high velocities are not needed for earthly combat, as the curvature of the earth would act against you significantly. This weapon isn't slow enough to simply be offset like many long range weapons today are. There's no "Aim high, and the missle will go over the wall and land on the other side." The missile would simply go through the wall. Except in this case, the wall might actually be a populated landmass.

If you could fire rail guns rapidly enough, and have an optimal means of powering them, they'd be amazing defense systems against missiles, planes, asteroids, etc. But the primary reason the US Navy tinkers with them in this day and age is for intimidation value, which the rail gun is certainly not lacking in.

[Naroku]

agreed, and its just an awesome weapon. i would think if an asteriod or large enough mas coming towards earth, this would be our defense... unless they plan on deploying a team to blow it up @ location... lol