John,

You are looking for something that is time dependant on a map, but not dependant what's happening in the earth. The earth knows not mans time, but it has its own time. We can only guess when the earth will move from the signs we see and whether it took ten days or forty days it matters not because the signs were there and it happened. Who is the reader of the signs? Not you, but I. You will deny me over and over again because you want the earth to be as science dictates, but it never will.

Before the Indonesia earthquake there were signs then too and your Kerry S. knew those signs too. But he can't talk to you about them because then he would be like me and he can't afford to be like me. So his secret will remain locked in his mind forever. But there was something else too, but I am not free today to tell you what it was, but it was a quake meter you have never seen, nor do you know about it or how it works. From 1000 kms away it recorded the largest earthquake to be, but no one would have believed it then. Today some might. I too have this quake meter and it works but I don't think you'd believe the results of that one either. You would say 'show me' and I would and then you would say "it cannot be" and so we would be where we are today. I, the sign reader, dictating what the signs said and you saying there are no signs to be read.

Does science know why one earthquake on a fault is a 3.0 this time and the next a 6.0? No. Does it know in a short period of time when an earthquake will arrive and where? No. So if science cannot answer these questions why is your expectation of my being able to tell you a 6.8 or greater not accepted when it shows up as an 8.0? You are attempting to hold me to a higher standard than your own people can perform. Is it right to do so? No. It is not right.

I know why this is happening and I cannot change it, but it can and will be changed at some point in time. It can be a short time for some and much longer for others, when the wave of hope spreads around the world science will either stand and deliver or it may become obsolete. The choices are there to be made today, portents of a future where people live rather than die in earthquakes, science as a pedestrian may always be the case, but others will step in and do the job that needs to be done. I saw the signs of this, but I cannot tell you how to read them because you will chose not to see them.

You and Bob Geller should be best friends, drink a toast to hopelessness and be proud that the world of science remains intact while millions die over the years. Only outside of America will progress come, like the space program and then what is said cannot be done will be done here, because it will look bad that what is here has not performed.

In the richest country in the world we are behind when in fact we should be great leaders. Why?

Petra