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IN CA.EARTHQUAKES shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell JD) writes:
)
)WHAT do you tell concerned loved ones back in non-California areas
)when they get all worried and are just convinced that some day in the
)not too distant future California is going to detach from the
)continent and fall into the ocean?

Say to them: "Ma, yo an jed no dat an gonna happen.  No stop de worry
an de moonshine an let us city slikers deal wi it, otay?  an jed, leaf
edna de mule alone. otay?"


)I just sort of have said stuff like "even if it did detach, it
)wouldn't fall over, we'd need a bridge to the mainland :-)", but,
)that's not terribly scientific. :-(  

Then make it "scientific".  Add some linear equations, matrices, some
data taken from electrical experiments done in the 40's convoluted to
represent a model of an earthquake, and prove that just like little
+'s like little -'s, california like nevada and arizona.

)So, what *is* the scientific reason that it won't happen, and that
)aside from quake damage itself, there is nothing additional to fear
)from the big one, or for that matter several big ones?

Well, *the* scientific reason is that, unlike in doctor doolittle,
giant snails and moths cannot move giant landmasses, but rather we
will have to wait for space aliens.


hugs and kisses,

marvin minsky.

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