misgivings
Posted by John Vidale on December 04, 2005 at 12:12:25:

One of the first red flags to a scientist is someone whose certainty has outrun their evidence.

I'm still waiting to hear:

(1) a plausible explanation for why your ears detect a signal that travels kms per sec, which scientific instruments cannot.

And (2) why the place a large earthquake is about to strike would generate such a signal.

And (3) why such a signal would not be generated anywhere else.

An explanation consistent with the lack of even the smallest earthquakes from the nucleation region (and the best seismic network in the world surrounds Parkfield), no detectable precursory deformation, and no detectable EM radiation, either.

Infrasound? Are you serious? Rocks breaking? That we understand very, very well. What do you think you're hearing?

I'm not saying that I'm sure you're wrong, but that you've not yet built much of a case, and I don't buy it.


Follow Ups:
     ● Re: misgivings - Petra  13:01:19 - 12/4/2005  (31468)  (1)
        ● a plausible explanation? - John Vidale  19:42:27 - 12/4/2005  (31504)  (1)
           ● Re: a plausible explanation? Infrasound? - Petra  20:40:41 - 12/4/2005  (31506)  (1)
              ● infrasound is just long-period sound - John Vidale  21:39:48 - 12/4/2005  (31511)  (1)
                 ● Re: infrasound is just long-period sound - Petra  23:11:14 - 12/4/2005  (31516)  (0)
     ● Re: misgivings - Don in Hollister  12:43:42 - 12/4/2005  (31467)  (1)
        ● Re: misgivings - chris in suburbia  15:19:10 - 12/4/2005  (31474)  (1)
           ● Re: misgivings, hopefully none. - Petra  18:47:26 - 12/4/2005  (31502)  (2)
              ● research dollars - chris in suburbia  04:12:39 - 12/5/2005  (31518)  (1)
                 ● Re: research dollars/no comment - Petra  04:58:27 - 12/5/2005  (31521)  (1)
                    ● ??? (NT) - Cathryn  17:41:44 - 12/5/2005  (31566)  (0)
              ● For Petra/Curious to know - Todd  20:29:21 - 12/4/2005  (31505)  (2)
                 ● Re: For Petra/Curious to know - Cathryn  16:14:05 - 12/5/2005  (31562)  (0)
                 ● Re: For Petra/Curious to know - Petra  20:44:26 - 12/4/2005  (31507)  (1)
                    ● Re: For Petra/Curious to know - Cathryn  17:46:05 - 12/5/2005  (31568)  (0)