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I have noticed that you never have the quoted post in a quote box. Why is that? Is it something about the browser that you are using? It is a lot easier to follow what you are saying if you just click on the "quote" button on the bottom of the post that you wish to refer to.

According to this article taken from CNN's web site, most countries affected by this tsunami did not have a warning system in place-------- http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/29/asia.warning.brown/index.html HONG KONG -- On Sunday morning, shortly before killer waves reached Sri Lanka and India, a report was transmitted to a monitoring station in Hong Kong. It came from a federal agency in the United States, which had detected a major earthquake near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and it noted there was the possibility of a tsunami near the quake's epicenter. Although that news was picked up in Hong Kong, it never reached many other parts of Asia or faraway east Africa. Alexis Lau, who runs the Hong Kong Coastal and Atmospheric Research Center, says that is not good enough. "The thing I find frustrating is that the area which is likely to be affected doesn't seem to have done enough," he says. Currently the Indian Ocean does not have a tsunami warning system, and of the 11 countries affected by the tsunamis, only Thailand belongs to an existing system working among the Pacific Rim countries. India's Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal announced on Wednesday that a system would be installed there, but would take two to two-and-a-half years to put in place at a cost of up to 1.25 billion rupees ($27 million). Governments with Pacific Ocean coastlines share real time information that can help detect giant waves, but tsunami warning systems do not always work. On Sunday, India's meteorology center in Andaman and Nicobar informed the government of the earthquake that hit the region and the damage caused to the buildings but it did not have information on the approaching tsunami. "We could not have imagined that a tsunami of this magnitude would hit our coast and cause so much devastation," The Associated Press reported Sibal as saying. "No government thought of it because this really was not on the horizon." In 1993 Japanese authorities scrambled to issue a tsunami warning after a quake off Hokaido. But the alert came too late for people living on the shoreline who were mown down by waves up to 29 meters high. Nearly 200 people died. "If the earthquake occurs very close to the coastline of any island or continent the tidal wave or tsunami would come much quicker than the system works," Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima says. Even so, Japan is now pushing for new measures to protect the people living around the Indian Ocean and wants to discuss the possibility of an early warning system at a conference next month. Australia has also said it would push for an Indian Ocean warning system even though that may seem like "closing the door after the horse has bolted". Analysts say that makes a lot of sense since tectonic plates off Sumatra, close to epicenter of the quake that caused this disaster, remain unstable. Does that mean more major quakes will occur sometime soon? No-one knows for sure, and that is why scientists say we should be prepared for next time. The existing international warning system is designed to alert nations that potentially destructive waves may hit their coastlines within three to 14 hours. Scientists said seismic networks recorded Sunday's massive earthquake, but without wave sensors in the region, there was no way to determine the direction a tsunami would travel.

Just out of curiosity, Who is suing NOAA and in what court is it being brought? I couldn't get the link to work.

I think they are called "lassimus dorsi" or something like that, and I am dead certain that I spelled it wrong. One of the best ways to develope this group is with what I call a "pullover." One lies on his back on the floor, or a bench will work, then with a standard squat bar, or a curl bar will work, reach directly overhead (as if you were being robbed) grasp the bar and bring it up 90 degrees, then return it to the floor. Do these in sets of 8 to 12, about 6 sets every other day, and you will begin to see results. You can even do this with individual dumbbells,(one in each hand of course) but it is a little more awkward. This is also very good for the chest mucsles.

It is impossible for me to accept the idea of time travel without thinking in terms of plural realities. The reality that we call "here and now" are the sum total of all past events since the big bang, and maybe even before. Therefore, if one were able to travel backwards in time, reality as we know it, would not be the same as it "was," which would be somewhat confusing to the general population. I postulate that if one were to travel backwards in time, he would be creating another "here and now" that would exist in another dimension that we would be completely be unaware of. If it is at all possible, then it has already happened. If it is not possible, we will never know.

Precisely old man and I might add to the point that mankind, being a quite natural evloutionary development, is just another contributor to the "natural world." Why do people insist on treating man's involvement in the ecology as somehow unnatural? It isn't as if we immigrated here from some galaxy far far away. We were born here.

speaking of television, why is it that every time I see a television playing on a TV show or porgram, the television that is on television has a picture that is flopping?

Or none of the above? EDIT: On this site, one can lookup the GDP for any country. It is interesting to compare the pr. capita GDP for communist countries to Capitalist countries. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

How do you know that? It's her bubble, not yours. Well when you have a sphere as large as the universe, any part of it is pretty near to flat.

I got the impression that she envisions a universe that is flat in perception, like the world is flat if one is only looking at a few sq. miles of it. I gather that this "bubble" has a skin that is of considerable thickness, but when compared to the whole of the universe, is relitively thin. Like our atmosphere compared to the whole world?

Why did it's rate of expansion change so radically? There is nothing in the center to pull back on the galaxies and there is no atmosphers to retard it's expansion, so what force acted on these objects to change the rate of expansion?

I would have thought that it predicted a God, Heaven, judgement day etc. I don't see why it is not falsifiable.

I thought IDK stood for I don't know.

It ain't? Why not?

I cannot imagine a flat universe, nor can I imagine one like a Christmas ornament, (although that would be easier than flat) I have always wondered why it all has to be one big bang? Look, we think we know that there are such things as black holes. And we think we know that there are many of them. Why couldn't it be the case that once a black hole becomes dense enough--once it has attracted enough matter into it--that it just explodes and creates a galaxy? Does it have to be the whole damned universe at once? Why not a black hole exploding somewhere in the universe every billion years or so? Let's call it the "popcorn theory" of galaxy creation.

If the universe can be taken as flat, would a pancake be a reasonable way to discribe it? Or perhaps like a disc? If so, does ot have a thickness? How thick?

Indeed!

If a magnet chages light so that you can't see something inside it's field, how do they find the patients who go through an MRI examination?

If everything started out with a big explosion, why would it be anything other than spherical?