Is Uranus responsible for sea quakes?

[Dover]

Uranus is 'responsible' for sea quakes

30 March 2005 03:09

Uranus may be responsible for recent devastating Asian sea quakes because the mystery-shrouded "planet of calamity" is unusually close to the Earth, tabloid newspaper readers in Germany were warned on Wednesday.

Under the front-page headline "Uncanny Uranus", the report in theBild newspaper cited an array of experts, ranging from Nasa scientists to TV astrologers, saying the seventh planet from the sun possesses a "quadripolar" magnetic field that acts as "a giant cosmic vacuum cleaner".

This heavenly Hoover is literally sucking the Earth's tectonic plates out of their beddings, according to Bild, Europe's largest daily newspaper with more than five million readers.

This magnetic pull is strongest along the Earth's equator because the tropics are marginally closer to Uranus than the poles are.

The magnetic forces "are strong enough at the equator to suck up electrically charged dust particles", which could, in turn, disturb the Earth's crust and spawn killer sea quakes and resulting tidal waves.

The reason these natural phenomena have increased of late is that the distant planet's orbit has brought Uranus uncomfortably close to Earth....cont'd


http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleid=200526

[wtbymark]

1. IMO

crock of sh^t

[ret5hd]

5. i don't know about that...

he used words like quadripolar and cosmic and stuff, so he must know somethin'!

[dave123williams]

2. I dunno - my anus is powerful, but not that powerful.

[madinmaryland]

3. My wife seems to think it was mine! n/t

[dbonds]

4. Something smells on Uranus

[ret5hd]

6. maybe your just too close!

[Dover]

7. Earthquakes caused by underwater oil and gas exploration, shrinking magma.

Earthquakes caused by underwater oil and gas exploration, shrinking magma, magnetic stripping and polar reversal




Staff Reporter
Mar. 29, 2005

Scientists are scratching their heads to find out the reasons for the increasing amounts of earthquakes under the oceans specially the two mega quakes off the coast of Sumatra.

According to a theory called Wadati-Benioff zones, or simply Benioff zones earthquakes tend to be concentrated in certain areas, most notably along the oceanic trenches and spreading ridges. The prominent underwater earthquake zones parallel to the trenches that typically were inclined 40-60° from the horizontal and extended several hundred kilometers into the Earth.

Geologists believe that the ocean floor and underwater portion of the earth’s crust are continuously getting recycled. In certain areas, the magma is expanding, creating new ridges and therefore older ridges are moving apart. Based on this, do not assume that earth is expanding...cont'd

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2097.asp

[salinen]

8. I knew someone would blame

myanus.

[Speck Tater]

9. Considreing the distance to Uranus and the strength

of it's magnetic field, a refridgerator magnet would have WAY more effect on the tectonic plates.

We just have to get people to stop using so many refridgerator magnets before they tear the earth apart.

[Ian David]

10. Appropriate that this comes a day before April Fools

Still, this theory is only SLIGHTLY more stupid than supposing that the oil companies caused it.

[wtbymark]

11. aahaaa i just saw the reason

of course on a show on PBS, i gots two words

Anak Krakatau

[Squeegee]

13. You mean

... Earthquakes can actually happen near geologically active regions of the planet, like near tectonic fault zones or even volcanoes?

Impossible I say! If Democratic Underground has taught me anything, it's that earthquakes are caused by secret government earthquake machines that harness space-alien quantum mechanical technology to manipulate extraterrestrial magnetic fields! Any explanation more reasonable than this is pure hogwash!

Excuse me, I have to run to my panic room... the chem-trail jets are flying over my house again!

[seriousstan]

12. Uranus is currently in the sign of Pisces,"

"And that is a harbinger of disaster."

I AM in the science forum.....right?

[Squeegee]

14. This is actually the "pseudoscience" forum

... but we are all too lazy to spell it out fully and prefer to call it simply the "science" forum.

[seriousstan]

15. I am beginning to believe it.

[Squeegee]

16. I believe it!

Who wouldn't? It doesn't matter to me if some unknown South African web site re-posts a translated article from Germany's popular and sexy Bild tabloid, it's totally convincing!

BTW, esteemed scientific journals are for wusses! :P

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. No

Why do you ask?

[Pepperbelly]

18. I am ordinarily pretty open-minded but this stymies me.

:wtf:

[Poor Richard Lex]

19. this one pegs the BS meter

if the graviy of uranus could affect a tectonic plate it would certianly be measurable on the earth and would affect the moon which goes around the earth, thereby getting into the quadripolar field (or whatever, never heard of this) of Uranus and we would see the moon's orbit become more ovoid or oval-like.

Now that may cause some earthquakes

[DrGonzoLives]

20. I can't fart that powerfully

n/t

[aeolian]

21. BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Holy shit, that's the funniest thing I've read in a while.

What utter bullshit, I don't even know where to start...