Reply #172: OKAY! ENOUGH! I am not a crackpot and all the things...

[lindashaw]

I'm being accused of. All I did the other day was ask a question. I said in my header that it was a dumb question about earthquakes. I am a 65-year-old woman, and I am NOT all the ugly names that posters on this site are calling me.

I posed my question because I once wrote a piece on my friend, Millie Hughes, who was an astronaut on the space shuttle Columbia. That piece was published in an international magazine. Millie said that the earth has a glow about it that dead planets, like the moon, do not have. She said that the earth is a living thing, and you can see that from outer space. She also said that she saw the smoke from the Kuwait oilfield fires, and it had traveled almost around the globe.

My question about earthquakes was not a crazy question -- about whether or not mankind could hurt this planet and set it up for disasters to happen.

Why the NYT picked my post to print, I don't know. But okay, you all win. I will not be coming back to DU. I've been coming here since before the war, but even an idiot can tell when they've outlived their welcome.