I wish it went more into detail on the satellite feeling the earthquake - most of that bit was on how awesome GOCE was. I wanna know how it felt something I didn't when I was standing on the planet it happened on :/
It says that its accelerometers felt the "acoustic wave". This isn't based on any research I've done, but I suspect we didn't feel it for the same reason we don't feel every earthquake worldwide - the energy disperses as the vibrations travel through the Earth's crust, meaning the effects are only felt in a certain area. The vibrations may travel further and faster through air than tectonic plates, though, as air is significantly less dense and so on - meaning the shockwave (so to speak) reached that high, as it hadn't dispersed yet. But also, it was only 270km up - that's not very far, compared to how far we are from the site of the earthquake. And on top of that, well, the vibrations were probably really weak at that point - it's only because the accelerometers and such were so sensitive that we know it "felt" the vibration. The tectonic plates beneath us would have shaken as well, but just such a minuscule amount that we didn't feel it ourselves.
Your thread; I'll back off.
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I didn't mean to come across as being defensive of "my" thread or whatever, I was talking quite generally. ^^ As I said, you're the staff member, it's your job to take action as you see fit - and you're right, that stuff usually turns into a clusterfuck. I was just offering an alternative opinion, mostly because I totally have a stick up my ass about Minority Report-esque pre-emptive/preventative action - because, like, FREEDOM, MAN.
Honestly the idea of Evolution as a whole just gives me a "Wow" reaction.
But if we're looking for more specific instances one notable one was when Cosmos suggested that Black Holes functioned very similliar to the TARDIS's "Bigger on the inside" concept.
woah woah woah, whaaa-? Link me to the article or whatever, that sounds fascinating.
I forget where I saw the article but it was found in Mt Arararat (something like that), the same one in the story. I was just saying it was cool, I didnt mean to cause controversy :(
You haven't dude, don't worry ^^. Having taken a brief look into it, there's no scientific evidence for Noah's Ark's presence there - although there have been many claims that people have found it over the years, it's all come out to be unsubstantiated at best and a complete hoax at worst. That doesn't mean it isn't there, mind - just that it hasn't been found, and certainly hasn't been scientifically verified as the Noah's Ark of lore. Who knows, though, maybe someday the claims of people seeing it will be proven to be true.