Sure, but we learned not to do that again after the Cobra Base incident.
Chavez is a walking talking Rick-Roll.
Sure— this is just a “wafer-thin” mint of ignorance, after that gluttonous banquet. What’s the worst that could happen?
Offhand, I can think of three methods that we might be able to use to start an earthquake. The previously mentioned nukes - which would be hard to miss. Injecting massive amounts of lubricant like water into a fault - again, it would be hard to miss a large pumping station ( probably more than one ), and you’d never know when or if the fault would let go even if the method is workable. Or, it might be possible ( as in “I’d suspend disbelief if I read it in a sci fi novel” ) to us some sort of targeted vibrations through the ground to induce an earthquake. But as far as I know, we don’t even have a serious theory let alone a real technique for that; and it would be very obvious to every country with a seismograph that something weird was going on.
And at any rate, none of that would involve high frequency radio waves like HAARP is working on anyway. You’d need evil geologists, not evil atmospheric & radio scientists. Those guys are in charge of the hurricane generators.
It would be barbaric; if anything, worse than using a nuke because it would be even less selective. And highly unreliable; more likely to destroy civilian buildings than no doubt heavily reinforced bunkers.
You guys…come on, this is serious. :mad: We all know that the HAARP machine didn’t work as planned for Katrina, and those of us in the know also were aware that the Government was looking for a new place to test it on. When a certain government employee, who’s name will be withheld to protect their anonymity recent went to Haiti and was cheated by a street vendor when buying supposed Cuban Cigars we all KNEW that the government had found it’s target.
sigh Ridiculous. It was actually not Obama or the administration that ordered the test…it was a secret cabal of former Republicans and Jews that were responsible. They were acting without the authorization or even knowledge of Obama, who was told that HAARP was to be used to provide mana from heaven to the starving masses.
Again, ridiculous. The ‘bonus’ was that the Jews got to sacrifice the blood of non-believers, the Christian Right got to strike a blow against Natas and all his works, and the Republicans who were central to the execution of the plan got a lot of footage of death and destruction for their Saturday evening popcorn party.
Certainly. It’s self evident since we saw the effects on Haiti.
Sure, we have the technology. Those of us in the know, however, speculate that either France or Belgium are the next targets. Won’t those damn Euros be surprised!! muahahahahhahahahaha!
Yes, but not in the way you think. The REAL ‘bonus’ for the influx of Haitian immigrants are as house servants to Republican elite and their Jewish partners.
-XT
“We’ve been debating?” C’mon, man, I’m always wishing people would give you the benefit of the doubt on your claim to being a long-time lurker, but do you have to go undermining the plausibility of it?
ETA: Please stop being such a Binky Boo.
By “poverty ray” do you mean the targeted broadcasting of Jerry Springer and Judge Judy episodes?
I’ve:
- Merged lalenin’s thread with the one started by YoureBeingABinkyBoo.
- Moved the completed thread to MPSIMS from Great Debates.
- Revised the title for clarity (added the part in brackets).
If anyone wants to have a serious debate on alternative weapons like an earthquake machine or anything else, I’d suggest starting a separate thread in Great Debates.
What good would mana from heaven be to starving masses? Everyone knows that food is the first of the five principal exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration…*
:rolleyes:
*[cite](President from signing a bill into law. The Dems “core value” is not the inverse corollary)
We, as in the SDMB. I love the fact that I’ve introduced Binky Boo to your vocabulary. 
Geothermal drilling projects can cause earthquakes–above links to NYTimes articles on same.
I feel so naive.
My sister did have a friend whose brother said that there was a Hispanic guy at the gym who said there was going to be a big shake up somewhere and that she shouldn’t travel anywhere south of Florida. Apparently , he offered up this information just because he got good work out tips from my sister’s friend’s brother.
Was Christopher Walken spotted in a blimp anywhere nearby?
Well, technically yes, seeing as Tsar Bomba produced energy equivalent to a 7.1 earthquake (in other words, slightly more powerful than the Haiti quake). Getting a Tsar Bomba-type device to a spot 10 miles under the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, however, seems to me a tricky task.
I know that dude!
I don’t see how you can compare a bone-headed plan to fake attacks on the US as if they were by Cuba (with no deaths), with the Holocaust or intentionally causing an earthquake that kills over 100,000 people. That’s just nuts.
It might not be a bad idea, when you are referencing board discussions in which you did not take part, to explicitly say "The Board debated [topic under discussion]. . . " Clarity can be helpful. Especially when so many people are already hinting at incredulity with your assertion that you were a long-time lurker. As for me, I’m happy to take you at your word. But someone who’s lurked long enough to consider himself “not a new Doper” will certainly recognize that perceptions matter, no?
In what way is this worse than Pat Robertson’s explanation?
It isn’t. But that’s damning with very, very faint praise.