Your conclusions are not especially consistent with what is actually taking place. Additionally, I explained why it can take me a while to respond to notes or why on occasion no responses get made at all. And if you go back a little ways you will see that I did respond to some of Petra’s past notes. There is no person presently posting notes here whom I can think of whose questions I would not try to answer when time permits.

These types of efforts are now at a point where it is vitally important to get the data organized in such a manner that people can examine them at one location where they can try to make some sense out of them. Unfortunately, data like those do not get organized into nice files by themselves. It can take tremendous amounts of time to get the necessary data processing and formatting routines developed and checked. As I said in an earlier note in this thread I am presently working on trying to get some Solid Earth Tide data organized and stored on my Web page.

When I start a project like that I will often spend every minute on it that I can. And during the past few weeks this one has had perhaps 80 to 100 hours of lengthy discussions with geology specialists, basic research, computer programming, and data evaluation invested in it. I even skipped going to a musical concert I wanted to attend, I missed a dear neighbor’s funeral, and I had to turn down two invitations to have dinner at a friend of many year’s house.

The data generation program I am now using generates something like 100 pieces of Solid Earth Tide related data for each earthquake. And it takes it about 5 minutes to process those data for just one earthquake. Something like 15 separate computer programs and files are running or being accessed all at about the same time.

The effort has been worth it. In fact I am rather stunned by the results. I was not even trying to get the ones I got. Yesterday I made what appears to me to be a highly significant discovery regarding links between earthquake precursors, the gravitational pulls of the sun and the moon on the Earth’s crust, the Solid Earth Tide, and earthquake triggering times. The information might not look that impressive. But if it is accurate and is as significant as I suspect it is then I believe that it might have the potential to eventually revolutionize the sciences of earthquake triggering and forecasting. Right now I am trying to figure out what to do for a next step. I have been working on that particular problem for years trying to discover what might be taking place. Now I believe I know. And as is the case with much of this earthquake work, although it is understandable, it is quite complex. As a bonus I also finally learned what the term “azimuth” means.

The point is, in order to focus on one of these projects and get it finished before some interruption forces the work to be placed on “hold” for a month or more, I have to drop everything else and concentrate on it. And that can mean not visiting the EarthWaves board, reading my e-mail, or even getting on the Internet at all for days at a time. Newsgroup readers have also complained a bit about this in the past. But, I am having to deal with major time limitations here.