The Off Topic Topic

[Valmy]

If the Okies can weather that in their doublewides the Euros should be fine.

[Admiral Yi]

Magnitude 3 is pretty trifling, isn't it?

[Tamas]

Try fracking instead;  it's good, and good for you.

Doing explosions underground to mine stuff - radically new concept worth being afraid of!

[Liep]

Magnitude 3 is pretty trifling, isn't it?

Probably, but it does include a mysterious 'and greater'.

[Barrister]

Magnitude 3 is pretty trifling, isn't it?

Very much so.

[Jacob]

Doing explosions underground to mine stuff - radically new concept worth being afraid of!

You have officially been recategorized. Your new category: troll.

[Tamas]

Doing explosions underground to mine stuff - radically new concept worth being afraid of!

You have officially been recategorized. Your new category: troll.

It's sarcasm, Jim

[Liep]

Doing explosions underground to mine stuff - radically new concept worth being afraid of!

You have officially been recategorized. Your new category: troll.

It's sarcasm, Jim

Trolls never use sarcasm.

[Jacob]

Magnitude 3 is pretty trifling, isn't it?

In and of itself, yeah, but I think when you're looking at seismic activity it's less about the strength of any given individual incident and more about trends. I believe big earthquakes, for example, are often preceded by many smaller shakes.

The objection to fracking re: seismic activity is not, I believe, that magnitude 3 quakes are terrifying - it's that it's connected patterns of greatly increased seismic activity.

[Jacob]

It's sarcasm, Jim

Yeah, that was pretty clear Vladimir.

[Tamas]

Fracking may very well be a dangerous thing, but all new technologies have seen their shares of opposition, so forgive me for being skeptical about it being so horrible. But hey, who knows, it might be the first invention in a million years where the naysayers are right.

[Admiral Yi]

In and of itself, yeah, but I think when you're looking at seismic activity it's less about the strength of any given individual incident and more about trends. I believe big earthquakes, for example, are often preceded by many smaller shakes.

The objection to fracking re: seismic activity is not, I believe, that magnitude 3 quakes are terrifying - it's that it's connected patterns of greatly increased seismic activity.

Then why not produce evidence of this greatly increased pattern of seismic activity to which these magnitude 3 earthquakes are connected?

[Jacob]

Fracking may very well be a dangerous thing, but all new technology has seen its share of opposition, so forgive me for being skeptical about it being so horrible. But hey, who knows, it might be the first invention in a million years where the naysayers are right.

So you're confident that fracking is wonderful and has no negative consequences, primarily because it's an invention and inventions have a track record of a million years of always being great?

[Jacob]

In and of itself, yeah, but I think when you're looking at seismic activity it's less about the strength of any given individual incident and more about trends. I believe big earthquakes, for example, are often preceded by many smaller shakes.

The objection to fracking re: seismic activity is not, I believe, that magnitude 3 quakes are terrifying - it's that it's connected patterns of greatly increased seismic activity.

Then why not produce evidence of this greatly increased pattern of seismic activity to which these magnitude 3 earthquakes are connected?

I think we're having a classic moment of Yi-Jacob complete lack of mutual understanding.

[Eddie Teach]