[QUOTE=RosettaStoned;45791918]Whats retarded is taking 1059 characters to tell someone that the fucking Earth is big (and that it can't feel anything).
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What's retarded is counting the characters in a post
[QUOTE=RosettaStoned;45795659]I'm not back pedaling, I'm not being edgy and I wasn't shitposting ironically. I made a fucking joke. A stupid quip obviously not meant to be taken seriously or literally. Stop being uppity losers and learn to take a joke without launching into a tirade, even if you don't think its funny.[/QUOTE]
stop trying to defend your sense of humor's honor
[QUOTE=Doom14;45791428]The Earth is what, 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000,000kg and 12,742km in diameter? I honestly don't think it gives a shit.
I'll put it another way. The Tsar Bomba tested in 1961, over Mityushikha Bay, had an atomic yield of about 50mt, which is about 2381 times stronger than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The equivalent mass of TNT would have been a 392m cube, almost the height of the Eiffel Tower. Despite the seismic shock still being measurable on the third passage around the world, the Earth proved that once again it simply didn't give a shit because here we are. And yes, yes - it was air detonated for what it's worth. But a different way to consider it: The Three Gorges Dam used 27,200,000 cubic meters of concrete and displaced 102,600,000 cubic meters of Earth. At maximum capacity, the water it will hold back will weigh 42,000,000,000 tons at 175 meters above sea level. A displacement that gigantic would only change the length of day on Earth by only 0.00000006th of a second.
In other words, [highlight]the Earth doesn't give a shit, stop being edgy.[/highlight][/QUOTE]
okay but you don't know if the earth can feel though [sp]it can[/sp]
but seriously like damn, how tilted can you get
[QUOTE=wari65;45796522]okay but you don't know if the earth can feel though [sp]it can[/sp][/QUOTE]
Look, I'm all for free thought and alternate view points, but if you think a giant celestial body honestly gives half a shit about what you're/humanity is doing, you're twelve different kinds of fucked up. You only need the utmost rudimentary physics knowledge to understand that. If you want to talk about the environment, nature, and all those fluffy feel-good things, be my guest. Besides the radiation and atmospheric effects of nuclear testing during it's height, current weaponry is basically null. As in it just goes boom, throws up some smoke, and clap clap we're done - by comparison. You'd be better off arguing chemical pollutants, especially in the atmosphere/water and not "stop bombing poor mother Gaia :'''( " If you want to reword "feel" into "react" than I think people would be inclined to agree.
And if you wanted to sit down and actually discuss how human development, expansion, and technology have actually affected plate tectonics to any discernible degree, I'd indulge you because that'd be legitimately fascinating.
It's alright, people. Only 14 houses, three schools, a local hospital and a church present slight damage, only casualty so far is a woman with a sprained ankle.
Thanks for the concern, though
[QUOTE=Doom14;45797700]Look, I'm all for free thought and alternate view points, but if you think a giant celestial body honestly gives half a shit about what you're/humanity is doing, you're twelve different kinds of fucked up. You only need the utmost rudimentary physics knowledge to understand that. If you want to talk about the environment, nature, and all those fluffy feel-good things, be my guest. Besides the radiation and atmospheric effects of nuclear testing during it's height, current weaponry is basically null. As in it just goes boom, throws up some smoke, and clap clap we're done - by comparison. You'd be better off arguing chemical pollutants, especially in the atmosphere/water and not "stop bombing poor mother Gaia :'''( " If you want to reword "feel" into "react" than I think people would be inclined to agree.
And if you wanted to sit down and actually discuss how human development, expansion, and technology have actually affected plate tectonics to any discernible degree, I'd indulge you because that'd be legitimately fascinating.[/QUOTE]
okay but that's sidestepping the point here [sp]the earth is a living system[/sp]
but really calm down
[QUOTE=wari65;45798282][sp]the earth is a living system[/sp][/QUOTE]
wroooooong 0/10
next post bickering about hurting the earth's feelings gets their feelings hurt
[QUOTE=Doom14;45791428]The Earth is what, 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000,000kg and 12,742km in diameter? I honestly don't think it gives a shit.
I'll put it another way. The Tsar Bomba tested in 1961, over Mityushikha Bay, had an atomic yield of about 50mt, which is about 2381 times stronger than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The equivalent mass of TNT would have been a 392m cube, almost the height of the Eiffel Tower. Despite the seismic shock still being measurable on the third passage around the world, the Earth proved that once again it simply didn't give a shit because here we are. And yes, yes - it was air detonated for what it's worth. But a different way to consider it: The Three Gorges Dam used 27,200,000 cubic meters of concrete and displaced 102,600,000 cubic meters of Earth. At maximum capacity, the water it will hold back will weigh 42,000,000,000 tons at 175 meters above sea level. A displacement that gigantic would only change the length of day on Earth by only 0.00000006th of a second.
In other words, [highlight]the Earth doesn't give a shit, stop being edgy.[/highlight][/QUOTE]
Arguments aside, it really is quite interesting how massive the scale on which the Earth operates is.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale#Examples[/url]
This is a cool table on Wikipedia about equivalent energy release for Earth quakes in tons of TNT. The energy release in a 9.0 magnitude earthquake is 480 megatons of TNT. The 2004 earthquake in Indonesia put out 950 megatons of TNT worth of energy; that's fucking insane.
Thankfully this earthquake was rather mild. 7.0 earthquakes are honestly not a particularly big deal to a country that has building codes designed to resist earthquakes. I have quite a bit of family in Peru, so I'm glad this seems to have gone over pretty well.
[editline]26th August 2014[/editline]
On an even more unrelated note I went looking around and I found out hurricanes release 12390 megatons of TNT per day.
wowe
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