John,

Let me do a little copy and paste here for ease of reading, all right?

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

** No scientist to date has come to examine my 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.

** You do not have an instrument available which can do what I can do. That's your excuse, not mine.

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

** Why not? If you have to large pieces of rock and a huge asperity is the only thing holding this thing together and suddenly it breaks, do you not think that some kind of sound is going to be generated? If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does that mean it didn't make a sound when it hit the ground?

Try this home experiment. Get a large tooth comb. One tape recorder. Turn on the tape recorder. Take your fingers and firmly hold them on the teeth of the comb. Push until it breaks,and see if it makes a sound. Is it loud? Is it louder than you thought it should be? Which part of the tooth on the comb broke? The bottom, or the middle? Why? If LK is still around, go see him, he may have more plastic silverware in his office and he can demonstrate what I'm telling you.

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

It is generated everywhere on the planet. Ask Zishinmini, he knows. He hears it too and he's in Japan. They have earthquake faults there and people here them just like they do in America. They may sound a little bit different because they are not our earthquake faults, but it's similar I'm certain.

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.

** In the project known as SETI they have been waiting to hear the sound of extraterrestrial life for countless numbers of years. They haven't heard it yet, but they think it exists. I think I have given you more reason to believe earthquake faults emit a sound prior to earthquakes than SETI has in looking for extraterrestrial life.

I don't want you to buy my theory, I want you to invest in it. Give me $2,500,000 and one scientist with an open mind, two researchers, one computer programmer to show you it does work. What you will end up with is something you can record, program and deliver a life saving warning with. That's a gazillion several million dollars less than the expense of the Parkfield program.

Remember these words, "The prediction and the promise." That was 20 Million Dollars ago. There was no prediction and there is NO PROMISE. I gave you a prediction. You won't even give me credit for it. Versus no prediction from your guys its 100% better than nothing.

How much money has been or will be spent on Earthscope in Parkfield? Is there any promise that they will deliver something? No. Can they issue a prediction the night before an earthquake? They have not demonstrated that they have this ability to date, have they?

Petra