Reply #26: Yes, I could set you straight [View All]

and tell you that we aren't causing these earthquakes.

There have been TONS, FRIGGIN' tons of these damned "Man caused this Tsunami" threads the last few days--how many more of these things are gonna get started? Is there going to be some influx of new information that the last fourteen of these things missed? I've tried to be as polite as possible, but this is getting to be too much.

I love science, I want others to share that love, so I encourage asking questions, but at some point it will behoove all if more people get the proper grounding so that you ask the right questions, and can effectively evaluate the answers. This stuff is sort of akin to asking a bunch of english-speaking-only people debating the syntax and sentence structure of Arabic--yeah, sure I could throw out some speculation, but how close is it likely to be to reality?

Let me just throw out a wild shot of my own for example--Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, this was discovered by a plutonium powered space probe--did the plutonium cause the volcanism?

(I'll give you a hint NO!)

It's not a textbook, but a great place to start understanding the concept of "science" Is Carl Sagan's book "The Demon Haunted World: science as a candle in the dark."