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Post by adciv » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:01 pm

[quote="Bigity";p="681073"]I know some guys in SPINSTRA (Special Instruments Training Flight). They monitor nuclear treaties by monitoring siesmic activity and other factors. Maybe I will have to go over there today and see what they can tell me.[/quote]

Here's a question for them that would help us.

What is the equation between tonage of an explosion and the magnitude on the rictor scale.
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Post by eyextra » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:14 pm

Yeah, basically he just baught a chess set (nuclear politics) and doesn't know how to play. He's too used to checkers (non-nuclear politics)... for lack of a better analogy.
Correct, Now the little bad boy has a bomb in hand ,but nobody want to play with him if he do not give up holding the bomb,So what could he do,bomb his own house again or throw the bomb to others?
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Post by Prospero » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:49 pm

Good. I hope they attack someone. I need some fucking entertainment in my life. The closer to home, the better. I heard radiation does wonders for the skin. And what's more entertaining than a little bit of global thermonuclear warfare?
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Post by dmpotter » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:34 pm

Global matter/anit-matter annihilation warfare?
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Post by Arc Orion » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:58 pm

How about a nice game of chess?
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Post by The Cid » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:00 pm

Chessboxing is more entertaining.
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Post by Seir » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:19 pm

[quote="The Cid";p="681174"]Chessboxing is more entertaining.[/quote]

I'm game.

/knows how to do both.
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Post by Blaze » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:08 pm

[quote="The Cid";p="681174"]Chessboxing is more entertaining.[/quote]

More Entertaining STILL!
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Post by adciv » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:49 pm

Back on topic...
After some googling I found a site that gives the definition of the Richter scale in terms of the Kelly Kiloton Index.
http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/KEL ... escale.htm

The 4.7 Magnitude reading (which seems to be a maximum bound, so far) would imply an 11kiloton explosion. The 3.7 reading would imply about a 340 ton explosion.

Posted Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:20 am:

And it would appear a Second Explosion has been detected.

Posted Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:44 am:

Scratch that, it was an earthquake in Japan.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/10/D8KM3OE00.html
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Post by mikehendo » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:06 am

earthquakes causing seismic activity, who would have thunk it..
On a side not, I was in about 4 earthquakes when I was in Japan.. It sucks when they shut the trains down for hours at a time out of fear of the aftershocks.. I was stuck in Akihabara for 4 hours one night.
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Post by StruckingFuggle » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:10 am

On a side not, I was in about 4 earthquakes when I was in Japan.. It sucks when they shut the trains down for hours at a time out of fear of the aftershocks.. I was stuck in Akihabara for 4 hours one night.
Well ... certainly there's worse places to be stuck overnight in Japan, eh?
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Post by Prospero » Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:03 am

[quote="Arc Orion";p="681173"]How about a nice game of chess?[/quote]

Brownie points for "getting it." :wink:
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Post by HTRN » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:49 pm

[quote="Blaze";p="681211"][quote="The Cid";p="681174"]Chessboxing is more entertaining.[/quote]

More Entertaining STILL![/quote]

You can buy a much cheaper version in Bed, Bath and Beyond.


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Post by mikehendo » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:59 pm

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="681313"]
On a side not, I was in about 4 earthquakes when I was in Japan.. It sucks when they shut the trains down for hours at a time out of fear of the aftershocks.. I was stuck in Akihabara for 4 hours one night.
Well ... certainly there's worse places to be stuck overnight in Japan, eh?[/quote]
I suppose, but by around 11:30 my feet were sore from walking all day, I didnt have money to get another beer at the bar and all i wanted to do was sleep.. Ah the joys of a country where most of the business do not accept credit cards..
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Post by adciv » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:58 pm

[quote="mikehendo";p="681464"]Ah the joys of a country where most of the business do not accept credit cards..[/quote]

What?! I would have thought that the Japanese would be at the forefront of electronic payment.
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