Re: Our World’s Most Important Science Information Project? – December 18, 2011
Posted by EQF on December 18, 2011 at 07:19:38:

You might want to be a little more careful regarding who out there on the Internet you decide you want to align yourself with.

In my opinion, out there in the Internet Newsgroups, one person you mentioned tried to work with another person to determine what my actual name is. And he also tried to get other people posting notes to join in the effort. Fortunately the Newsgroup readers apparently had the good sense not to pay any attention to either of them.

You might not be aware that, as best as I can recall, one of the colleagues of that other person who was working with the person that you mentioned at one point posted a note to a very public Internet Newsgroup calling for governments around to attempt to assassinate me by firing some type of ICBM at my residence. And that person’s note said that the only problem with that would be the fact that some of my neighbors would also be lost when the rockets landed.

Were that particular type of note posted today instead of years ago I would expect that the Department of Homeland Security might immediately take notice, ban the person involved from ever again posting any notes to the Internet, and perhaps even arrest the person and charge him or her with some type of hate crime.

So, again, you might want to give a second thought regarding what type of legal trouble you could get yourself into by pursuing such matters.

Regarding forecasting earthquakes,

On January 25, 2001 I personally called my UN disaster mitigation contact personnel and warned everyone that EM Signals that I had detected earlier that day indicated to me that a highly destructive earthquake could be on the way. And they needed to consider getting a response ready for it. We talked on and off for about 5 hours. Then I got busy with putting together an E-mail warning for circulation to disaster mitigation groups around the world.

Shortly after that E-mail was sent reports started to arrive about a catastrophic earthquake that had just occurred in India. Many thousands of people perished. And when I analyzed the data they indicated to me that the earthquake was a good match for the EM Signals that had been detected less than 24 hours earlier.

On another occasion I posted a warning to the sci.geo.earthquakes Internet Newsgroup warning people that I was watching for a significant earthquake to occur within a 6 day time window possibly somewhere in Iran or Afghanistan. I had actually determined exact locations for the expected earthquake in both of those countries but did not want to post that type of accurate information to a public earthquake warning and cause a panic. People were advised to contact me by E-mail for more details.

The expected earthquake occurred during the expected time window at the exact location were it was expected in Afghanistan. And thousands of people perished.

I believe that it would be statistically impossible to generate an accurate earthquake warning like that for just two specific locations to occur during a 6 day time window by chance.

And I have generated other accurate earthquake warnings over the years. The problem is that people believe only what they want to believe and create excuses that explain why they don’t have to believe what they would like to ignore.

True science doesn’t work that way. If the data say “A” then you can’t pretend that they are saying “B” just because you don’t like the letter “A.”

Finally, that proposed nonprofit foundation would probably not spend much time and energy on debates related to the science of earthquake forecasting. The point is that there is so much inaccurate science information going around that is being reported as accurate science that some organization needs to be created that can dispel some of it.

For example, the latest report that I saw proposed that the powerful earthquake in Japan early this year was actually the force that caused the initial meltdown of the Japan nuclear reactor complex. The plant had been built according to U.S. earthquake damage standards. And they were not adequate to cover the more powerful earthquakes in Japan. As a result, important reactor cooling water pipes etc. were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake. And the reactor(s) started going critical at some time before the tsunami hit. Up until recently, people had been insisting that the tsunami was the force responsible for the meltdown.

One has to wonder what we are likely to learn in the next news report about that Japan nuclear meltdown fiasco.

These are personal opinions.


Follow Ups:
     ● nonsense - John Vidale  09:24:57 - 12/18/2011  (79445)  (1)
        ● Re: nonsense - heartland chris  16:08:33 - 12/18/2011  (79447)  (1)
           ● link? - John Vidale  17:45:18 - 12/18/2011  (79448)  (1)
              ● now I see the link above - John Vidale  18:29:52 - 12/18/2011  (79449)  (0)