ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PLATE TECTONICS & OPIUM.
Heh. I was about to make a post about the earthquake in Chile and vaguely recalled having made 'an earthquake' image some time back. A good many things I should remember are now 'vaguely recalled' - if at all. Which is the blessing and curse of old age - forgetting things. I'm more than happy to forget much of my life, especially my childhood - it sucked and is only a buzzkill now. Memory is a funny thing. I am very keen on it as a process and its impact on my being. For instance, marijuana affects short term memory and it takes some doing to override that. Long term memory naturally slips away with disuse - you must refresh that crap or it will disappear. My issue these days is with the stuff in between - midterm memory - for lack of a better word.
Things that I did a few months ago are almost irretrievable. It either lodges in my long term memory or is tossed out like a handful of Post-It notes that have been gathering dust. Here's something else you probably don't know - opiates screw with memory ... in a most delicate way. When humans dream, the brain - memory - is taking all the sensations, data and feelings of the day and collating that into short term and long term memory. Without that release - that assignment of thoughts and emotions - human beings can only last for few days. Sleep deprivation works so well as an interrogation technique for just that very reason. Opium provides its own dreams.
Opium and its derivatives create wonderfully cinematic dreams, but they have absolutely nothing to do with rearranging one's data so as to facilitate recall (memory) or prevent overload to the system or worse - a complete crash. That's one of the reasons that opiates are so damned addicting. And one of the reasons that - even though I am supposed to - I don't take my morphine before I sleep. Not only am I not able to fully process my memories and get the attendant rest that comes from REM sleep (when all this work is done) - it is impossible to remember any dreams. I do some of my best thinking in Dreamland.
Now, as to the earthquake. I mentioned when Reno had its swarm, that the Pacific Plate will relieve stress all around its perimeter. I have been saying that for over 30 years. Geologists don't buy it. They claim the plate is more 'fluid' than that and stress relief on one side does not equal a reaction elsewhere. I call bullshit. If you will recall, there was a major temblor in Samoa last fall. That was followed by a sizable quake in Japan. Then one off Siberia and volcanic activity in Alaska. Mt. Shasta even made moves, as did Lassen. I have also mentioned that these large events tend to occur in the winter months - THAT is when the tidal pulls are strongest from the Moon because that is when IT is closest in the year.
The lithosphere is every bit as subject to tidal pull as the oceans - the medium is thicker and thus less reactive. But pull the Moon does. If I were a betting man, I would bet that there will be a significant event somewhere between Cabo San Lucas and Vancouver BC in the next coming months, along one of the major fault lines - San Andreas or Juan de Fuca. The Pacific Plate comprises one sixth of the Earth's surface and has been relieving stress everywhere else BUT there over the last year. The worst of the tidal pull will be over in March, BUT then the opposite happens. In June and July the Moon's pull is at its least and THAT will make the North American plate (a much denser medium than the floor of the Pacific Ocean for all kinds of geological reasons) 'lighter' if you will. That will allow the Pacific Plate to subduct more easily and cause a major quake.
Things that I did a few months ago are almost irretrievable. It either lodges in my long term memory or is tossed out like a handful of Post-It notes that have been gathering dust. Here's something else you probably don't know - opiates screw with memory ... in a most delicate way. When humans dream, the brain - memory - is taking all the sensations, data and feelings of the day and collating that into short term and long term memory. Without that release - that assignment of thoughts and emotions - human beings can only last for few days. Sleep deprivation works so well as an interrogation technique for just that very reason. Opium provides its own dreams.
Opium and its derivatives create wonderfully cinematic dreams, but they have absolutely nothing to do with rearranging one's data so as to facilitate recall (memory) or prevent overload to the system or worse - a complete crash. That's one of the reasons that opiates are so damned addicting. And one of the reasons that - even though I am supposed to - I don't take my morphine before I sleep. Not only am I not able to fully process my memories and get the attendant rest that comes from REM sleep (when all this work is done) - it is impossible to remember any dreams. I do some of my best thinking in Dreamland.
Now, as to the earthquake. I mentioned when Reno had its swarm, that the Pacific Plate will relieve stress all around its perimeter. I have been saying that for over 30 years. Geologists don't buy it. They claim the plate is more 'fluid' than that and stress relief on one side does not equal a reaction elsewhere. I call bullshit. If you will recall, there was a major temblor in Samoa last fall. That was followed by a sizable quake in Japan. Then one off Siberia and volcanic activity in Alaska. Mt. Shasta even made moves, as did Lassen. I have also mentioned that these large events tend to occur in the winter months - THAT is when the tidal pulls are strongest from the Moon because that is when IT is closest in the year.
The lithosphere is every bit as subject to tidal pull as the oceans - the medium is thicker and thus less reactive. But pull the Moon does. If I were a betting man, I would bet that there will be a significant event somewhere between Cabo San Lucas and Vancouver BC in the next coming months, along one of the major fault lines - San Andreas or Juan de Fuca. The Pacific Plate comprises one sixth of the Earth's surface and has been relieving stress everywhere else BUT there over the last year. The worst of the tidal pull will be over in March, BUT then the opposite happens. In June and July the Moon's pull is at its least and THAT will make the North American plate (a much denser medium than the floor of the Pacific Ocean for all kinds of geological reasons) 'lighter' if you will. That will allow the Pacific Plate to subduct more easily and cause a major quake.
But what do I know? More than those morons you'll find if you click on the above image, I'll aver.
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What are you talking about? AGW is surely the source of this activity. You just don't get it, do you? Albert, " the science is settled" Gore is very disappointed.
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