No -- but I think the demon that he cast out of the girl was Italian.
nicho
· 8 months ago
He may sound like a nutty professor, but the government response sounds a lot like Bush trying to tell us we had achieved victory in Iraq or the current pack of bozos telling us that prosperity is just around the corner.
“The tremors being felt by the population are part of a typical sequence … (which is) absolutely normal in a seismic area like the one around L’Aquila,” the civil protection agency said in a statement on the eve of that meeting.
Brian
· 8 months ago
Radon as earthquake-predictor approach is more-or-less junk science ... plain and simple.
Jophus
· 8 months ago
Like 'junk DNA?' I hate the arrogance that comes from the science community when it comes to certain things. Like when something isn't understood like parts of dna we can't figure out we call it junk? I suppose gravity and planets were junk astronomy at some point.
residentgeophysicist
· 8 months ago
no...the radon theory has been tested over and over again. and has been disproven. thus: junk.
JustAGuy
· 8 months ago
I think we can take this as a sign that Pope Benedict is correct in stating that Homosexuality poses the greatest threat to society.
Clearly, Italy was attacked by a homosexual earthquake.
-S
charlesrath
· 8 months ago
An earth scientist from the USGS was interviewed on NPR tonite and said that radon was an exciting idea back in the 70's until they found no radon releases before big quakes and big radon releases before no quakes. He said that only 5% of big quakes had radon releases prior.
What the Italian government really has to answer for is the relative success that earthquake science has had doing longer term predictions and the consequences of the shaking if you do nothing to reinforce substandard buildings. Given this, there is no excuse for a government to pretend that lax standards of construction in known earthquake zones is ok. The cost to reduce the risk? What are the lives lost and a region that is destroyed worth? Or of cultural artifacts of midieval cities?
Jophus
· 8 months ago
I just read about this too: new construction was more damaged than older construction. I think the difference is that the Italian citizens will demand something be done about it. It has been just 24 hours and the government has already been pounded by their press and people about suppressing scientists and regulation. This would take months to happen in the US. It is really quite impressive if you think about it.
soapdish
· 8 months ago
Now, I DRTFA, but my first thought on this post was, "What the hell is Rudy Giuliani doing in Italy?"
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“The tremors being felt by the population are part of a typical sequence … (which is) absolutely normal in a seismic area like the one around L’Aquila,” the civil protection agency said in a statement on the eve of that meeting.
Clearly, Italy was attacked by a homosexual earthquake.
-S
What the Italian government really has to answer for is the relative success that earthquake science has had doing longer term predictions and the consequences of the shaking if you do nothing to reinforce substandard buildings. Given this, there is no excuse for a government to pretend that lax standards of construction in known earthquake zones is ok. The cost to reduce the risk? What are the lives lost and a region that is destroyed worth? Or of cultural artifacts of midieval cities?