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Fun with sounds |
Some of what was said tickled my funny bone because honestly, most people are horrible at paying attention to details. I'm a detail nut. That comes from years of being an investigator. I hear everything. If someone calls me on the telephone I can tell a lot about them and their surroundings by what I hear. Just for fun, snap your fingers. Now, how easily did you hear that sound? Can you tell one bird from another if you hear chirping in the yard? Do hummingbirds sound like other birds? No, not at all. I always drive with the passenger window cracked. It alerts me to outside sounds like the wind so I can tell how hard its blowing. If someone pulls a strange maneuver, I'll probably hear it before I see it. Here's a question I'm sure John could secure the answer to from an associate. In Bruce Bolts book "Earthquakes" he said that when rocks are broken in the lab they emit an electrical discharge. So at what freqency is the sound that comes from that? Now imagine that you are a big honken rock, way down under the ground and you're grinding away and a fracture occurs, but it isn't enough to push the fault to an earthquake, what kind of sound would you make? You already know that electricity is at work there, so it just magnified by a 1000 times or so from the laboratory test. Can someone hear that? Maybe not in the normal sense one thinks of hearing, but maybe they can hear the vibration it sends out that seems like a sound to the person who is hearing it? This goes back to that silly game of words that has been played here like a broken record. What is sound? Sound is a vibration. So why does one think that this vibration that occurs in earthquake faults cannot be heard? Indeed, something does happen in earthquake faults before they move. Its like throwing a tennis ball in the air before you hit it with the racket. There are steps to the earthquake occurrence. Petra Follow Ups: ● Sound theories are few and far between - Ara 22:39:51 - 1/19/2005 (24480) (2) ● Re: Sound theories are few and far between - Cathryn 07:00:04 - 1/23/2005 (24529) (0) ● Re: Sound theories are few and far between - Don in Hollister 02:11:40 - 1/20/2005 (24482) (1) ● Unilateral Foghorn Observations - Ara 06:55:21 - 1/20/2005 (24483) (0) ● the same theory says ... - John Vidale 18:06:47 - 1/19/2005 (24479) (1) ● Nucleating Quake Questions - Ara 01:34:37 - 1/20/2005 (24481) (1) ● no much to say, really - John Vidale 10:02:39 - 1/20/2005 (24485) (1) ● Could be it might have been better not to say anything in the first place, then - Ara 18:57:05 - 1/20/2005 (24495) (1) ● in search of quibbling contradiction - John Vidale 21:58:36 - 1/20/2005 (24498) (3) ● Re: in search of quibbling contradiction - Cathryn 06:47:58 - 1/23/2005 (24528) (1) ● have a favorite reference? - John Vidale 08:12:11 - 1/23/2005 (24535) (1) ● Actually, yes - Cathryn 09:07:15 - 1/23/2005 (24545) (1) ● there were foreshocks - John Vidale 10:28:01 - 1/23/2005 (24556) (1) ● confused Haicheng with Tangshan - Cathryn 10:41:34 - 1/23/2005 (24557) (0) ● Not quibbling at all - Ara 01:10:59 - 1/21/2005 (24501) (1) ● our statement - John Vidale 07:05:12 - 1/21/2005 (24503) (2) ● The ebb and flow of untestable ideas - Ara 06:05:50 - 1/22/2005 (24510) (2) ● angels dancing on the head of a pin - John Vidale 08:02:30 - 1/22/2005 (24512) (1) ● Pin heads dancing with angels - Ara 09:39:08 - 1/22/2005 (24513) (2) ● you're drifted into offensive remarks - John Vidale 16:45:19 - 1/22/2005 (24518) (1) ● You have drifted into excuses - Ara 18:17:21 - 1/22/2005 (24519) (0) ● Re: Pin heads dancing with angels - Canie 11:10:35 - 1/22/2005 (24516) (1) ● On the criticism - Ara 18:33:04 - 1/22/2005 (24520) (1) ● really? - John Vidale 18:54:27 - 1/22/2005 (24521) (1) ● Oh come on. - Ara 20:45:25 - 1/22/2005 (24522) (1) ● I get it - John Vidale 21:00:09 - 1/22/2005 (24523) (1) ● I did not get it - Ara 01:56:43 - 1/23/2005 (24526) (0) ● grammar correction - Ara 06:18:02 - 1/22/2005 (24511) (1) ● Insults - Cathryn 08:09:02 - 1/23/2005 (24533) (2) ● Aggravation - Ara 23:50:27 - 1/23/2005 (24558) (1) ● clear illustration of Ara's clarity of thought - John Vidale 01:50:28 - 1/24/2005 (24559) (1) ● Ara's clear clarity - Ara 02:27:28 - 1/24/2005 (24560) (1) ● Re: Ara's clear clarity - Cathryn 08:07:11 - 1/24/2005 (24561) (1) ● Re:respect - Ara 16:50:40 - 1/24/2005 (24567) (1) ● Re:respect - Cathryn 19:42:29 - 1/24/2005 (24573) (1) ● very clear - John Vidale 21:26:32 - 1/24/2005 (24577) (1) ● Re: very clear - Cathryn 04:45:57 - 1/25/2005 (24585) (0) ● thanks - John Vidale 08:32:51 - 1/23/2005 (24541) (1) ● Re: thanks - Cathryn 08:44:13 - 1/23/2005 (24542) (0) ● For John And Ara. Speculation And Theory - Don in Hollister 13:03:06 - 1/21/2005 (24505) (2) ● Re: For John And Ara. Speculation And Theory - Cathryn 08:18:45 - 1/23/2005 (24537) (0) ● You left out hypothesis n/t - Roger Hunter 13:11:50 - 1/21/2005 (24506) (1) ● Re: You left out hypothesis n/t - Canie 17:53:15 - 1/21/2005 (24508) (2) ● Re: You left out hypothesis n/t - Cathryn 08:22:53 - 1/23/2005 (24538) (0) ● Re: You left out hypothesis n/t - Roger Hunter 20:20:31 - 1/21/2005 (24509) (1) ● Re: You left out hypothesis n/t - Cathryn 08:25:48 - 1/23/2005 (24539) (0) ● The Crest of the Wave - Petra 22:41:25 - 1/20/2005 (24500) (0) |
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