Thursday, December 01, 2011
Now we're getting close to the truth
One of Polistra's main themes: Scientists should be observing and studying Nature, not Numbers. Nature means THINGS THAT ACTUALLY EXIST AND HAPPEN. Nature does NOT mean the utterly bizarre set of perfectly false theories and wild schizophrenic babblings that lunatic wacked-out apocalyptic number-cultists permit themselves to examine.
When trying to measure WHAT ACTUALLY EXISTS AND HAPPENS, we have to pay close attention to the feelings and traditions of humans and animals, instead of fucking around with fact-free and context-free numbers and equations.
Geneticists are beginning to look outside the eentsy-weentsy sliver of secularity, as I noted a few days ago.
Now we have word that seismologists are starting to use real measurements as well.
Ionization affects mood. This fits into the picture I've observed personally. Something happens about two days before a quake that humans can sense, and the sensation is a dark dire feeling of impending disaster. = = = = = Update Mar 2015: The same researchers led by Rachel Grant have firmly established a quake-escaping migration among rodents, using motion-triggered security cameras in a zoo-like park. About one week before a major quake, the critters suddenly left their burrows and went elsewhere. They hadn't done this at any other time. No possibility of 'confirmation bias'. ¶ 3:05 AM
When trying to measure WHAT ACTUALLY EXISTS AND HAPPENS, we have to pay close attention to the feelings and traditions of humans and animals, instead of fucking around with fact-free and context-free numbers and equations.
Geneticists are beginning to look outside the eentsy-weentsy sliver of secularity, as I noted a few days ago.
Now we have word that seismologists are starting to use real measurements as well.
This is where the case of the L'Aquila toads was different. Rachel Grant, a biologist from the Open University, was monitoring the toad colony as part of her PhD project. "It was very dramatic," she recalled. "It went from 96 toads to almost zero over three days."
Ms Grant published her observations in the Journal of Zoology. "After that, I was contacted by Nasa," she told BBC Nature.
Scientists at the US space agency had been studying the chemical changes that occur when rocks are under extreme stress. They wondered if these changes were linked to the mass exodus of the toads.
Their laboratory-based tests have now revealed, not only that these changes could be connected, but that the Earth's crust could directly affect the chemistry of the pond that the toads were living and breeding in at the time.
Nasa geophysicist Friedemann Freund showed that, when rocks were under very high levels of stress - for example by the "gargantuan tectonic forces" just before an earthquake, they release charged particles.
These charged particles can flow out into the surrounding rocks, explained Dr Freund. And when they arrive at the Earth's surface they react with the air - converting air molecules into charged particles known as ions.
Ionization affects mood. This fits into the picture I've observed personally. Something happens about two days before a quake that humans can sense, and the sensation is a dark dire feeling of impending disaster. = = = = = Update Mar 2015: The same researchers led by Rachel Grant have firmly established a quake-escaping migration among rodents, using motion-triggered security cameras in a zoo-like park. About one week before a major quake, the critters suddenly left their burrows and went elsewhere. They hadn't done this at any other time. No possibility of 'confirmation bias'. ¶ 3:05 AM
