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In article <kyxl##m.rdc@netcom.com> rdc@netcom.com (Rachel Dafni Christy)  
writes:
> 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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