Earthquakes are caused by...

[uppityperson]

[eleny]

1. Somebody had to choose it so I got it over with

[Modern_Matthew]

2. Plate tectonics. Only extremists will say otherwise. nt

[kentauros]

30. Or perhaps for those of us that voted "Plate of Shirmp"

we do know the real answer, but "Plate of Shrimp" is the better answer any way you look at it

[Swede]

3. Wasn't Plate Tectonics a prog rock band back in the sixties.

:shrug:

[leftstreet]

10. It's all clear, we (weren't) meant to be here n/t

[demwing]

42. There might have been things I missed

But don't be unkind - It don't mean I'm blind

Perhaps there's a thing or two I think of lying in bed, I shouldn't have said,

But, there it is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3epPMa5rq0U

[FLAprogressive]

4. gay sex.

[Codeine]

5. Someone blamed capitalism in another thread.

DU has some whack-ass moments, for sure.

[Lefta Dissenter]

6. I DO like to vote

and, by the way, that effing *sshole Scott Walker caused the quake.

[Scuba]

13. Yep, it was Squat. n/t

[Baclava]

7. The Russians

I dare you to refute me

[spanone]

8. taco filling

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. Wow, you know? I was just thinking about a plate of shrimp!

Must be the collective unconscious.

[uppityperson]

24. Glad someone got it

[Myrina]

11. Why does it matter to you what people think?

What's the need to belittle people who believe differently than you?
I thought that's what Beck and Limbaugh excelled at ...

[uppityperson]

25. pot/kettle

Good job at showing how to belittle someone who believes differently than you!

[flvegan]

12. Earthquake machines!!

DU's very own entry in this race.

[IDemo]

14. When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars

[pipi_k]

64. High School...class of 1970

That was our "theme song".


I always knew nothing good would come from it.

:scared:

[Recovered Repug]

15. Do you want to know what REALLY causes earthquakes

or what THEY want you to believe causes earthquakes?

[TeeYiYi]

16. Gawd hates gay shrimp.

TYY

[devils chaplain]

17. Poseidon n/t

[Ian David]

18. You forgot the Reptoids under Mt. Shasta.

Support Your Local Reptoid
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4046

[neverforget]

19. We should've destroyed the moon when we had the chance

[leeroysphitz]

22. Since the dawn of time man has yearned to destroy the sun.

[neverforget]

27. Monty Burn's greatest enemy The Sun!

Smithers: Well, Sir, you've certainly vanquished all your enemies: the
Elementary School, the local tavern, the old age home...you
must be very proud.
Burns: No, not while my greatest
nemesis still provides our customers with free light, heat and
energy. I call this enemy...the sun.


Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the
sun. I will do the next best thing...block it out!

Smithers: Good God!
-- Burns' dastardly plan revealed, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One"

[CommonSensePLZ]

58. Spoiler alert

Maggy did it! lol

[Duer 157099]

20. Well dammit, I just ate a plate of shrimp

If California has a quake tonight, I'll accept responsibility. Shit.

[Overseas]

21. And I can't hep wondering what sucking all the oil out of our continents does

to the buoyancy of the various tectonic plates.

Maybe nothing. Or not much.

But then again... I have wondered from time to time just what it might have done...

[devils chaplain]

26. Your response....

Piqued my curiosity enough to do a little math.

The average oil output per day in 2006 was 86 million barrels a day, or 13.7×10^6 cubic meters, or .0137 cubic kilometers. So in a year, say, that amazingly works out to .0137*365= 5.0005 square kilometers. So run your 5k east, then another one north, and then another one straight up into the air. You've traced three edges of a cube of a year's worth of oil. Which isn't a lot of volume. Compared to the plates on the earth's crust your might as well be taking a sip from a well with a soda straw.

Unfortunately, oil is destroying the world by other means. :(

[Overseas]

60. Thank you.

I just wanted to put that worry to rest.

I agree that hyper-focus on "cheap" oil energy is destroying our world.

Why we have not been much more aggressively subsidizing conservation technologies, solar and wind and mass transit, because we know how important oil is and want to keep using it for decades to come, is beyond me-- except for some very sad immediate profit motive on the part of the oil companies.

[ReggieVeggie]

37. very, very, very little

[tammywammy]

23. BFEE has moved from the hurricane machines to earthquake machines

They shot a nuclear warhead down one of the of the oil drilling sites that go 10s of thousands feet down. The resulting explosion caused the earthquake. This way the WI protest is moved off the news.

And on top of that the moon's still pissed that we crash landed on her that she used extra gravity to knock the plates outta whack, and all Women's menses will be totally fucked up this month.


Srsly, plate tectonics. Learned about Pangea in the 5th grade. And this was in Texas.

[Earth_First]

28. HAARP system near Gakona, Alaska

We are currently secretly engaged in an earthquake war...

[lovuian]

38. yes 3/11/11 and Wisconsin went off the news

now its all about Japan

I hope its not true I really do

[gateley]

55. Although I think HAARP is utilized for far more than they admit, I don't think

it can control earthquakes, but I'm sure they're working on it. :7

[hack89]

61. Can I assume you are joking? nt

[Viking12]

29. What no Gawd on the list?

Don't you know this is Gawd's attack on people for supporting teh Gay Agenda?

[yawnmaster]

31. the moon is a baby Earth. You'd get mad, too, if someone bombed your baby planet. eom

[undeterred]

32. OTHER: Republican greed gets spewed up thru the earth at various

geographic locations

[InkAddict]

33. Carole King's imaginary friend causes the earth to move, doncha know it...

When I see your face, mellow as the month of May...

When you look at me that way...

[Chris_Texas]

34. GOD hates gays and women, and I am pretty sure Japan has both.

[Adsos Letter]

35. Do NOT underestimate the powers of the lowly, yet tasty, shrimp.

and his minions.

[Sinistrous]

36. You forgot second hand cigarette smoke.

It gets "linked" to damn near everything else.

[Critters2]

39. Ummm...God?

:hide:

[demwing]

40. Why isn't "Gerbils" in the poll?

be honest, you know it's their fault...

[otohara]

41. Arsenal Waste Fluids - Colorado 1961

In 1961, a 12,000-foot well was drilled at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, northeast of Denver, for disposing of waste fluids from Arsenal operations. Injection was commenced March 1962, and an unusual series of earthquakes erupted in the area shortly after. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/colorado/history.php

[TK421]

43. some couple having really great sex n/t

[walldude]

44. Tide goes in... Tide goes out..

You can't explain it.

[Ilsa]

45. Caused by the sudden and recent growth of palm trees in Wisconsin. nt

[blondeatlast]

46. Laura Branigan and/or cornflake chicken--jury's still out. nt

[blondeatlast]

66. Chemtrails, of course. nt

[Blue-Jay]

47. Dick Cheney's Quake-O-Matic.

[nadinbrzezinski]

48. You forgot GAWD punishing people and saving htem by killing them

:-)

[Rex]

49. Bill O'Really?

:rofl:

[CommonSensePLZ]

51. Plates go in, earthquake comes out, never a miscommunication

You can't explain that.

[proud2BlibKansan]

50. Hey. In Kansas, we blame Fred Phelps.

[krispos42]

56. I also blame Phelps for my nasal-hair growth.

It just seems appropriate.

[proud2BlibKansan]

57. I have a wart named for him

[krispos42]

59. Sweet...

...if I ever get a tumor, you've given me an idea!

[Desertrose]

52. Actually everything does make everything else happen

whether anyone believes it or not.

[MilesColtrane]

53. Other: Gaia is a dingbat.

[krispos42]

54. Other: Too many volcanos, not enough virgins.

I blame Japan's low birth rate. And socialism, which I'm sure is somehow involved and I look forward to Glenn Beck explaining WHY to me on Monday.


But since Discovery just landed, that means it wasn't NASA's earthquake generator. I knew Mel Gibson was full of shit!



Unless...


They were just up there, weren't they???? :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[moondust]

62. Obama for sure.

Just ask a Republican.

[QC]

63. Constantine believed that sodomy causes earthquakes.

I guess that brings new meaning to, "the earth moved!"

[lumberjack_jeff]

65. Fuckin' magnets. n/t

[uppityperson]

67. People having sex with magnets causes earthquakes? Hmmmm

[JitterbugPerfume]

68. tide goes in , tide goes out,

until someone pisses off god and he shakes things up.

[Vehl]

69. Where is the Mayan calender option?

:P

[Vinee]

70. George Bush, duh.

[Mojeoux]

71. I thought someone said sexy women are the cause of earthquakes? nt

[unkachuck]

72. isn't it obvious?...it's solar flares....

....as large amounts of solar radiation propagates through the earths magnet field, resonate currents are induced in the earths core magma generating heat (12*10^43joules/cm3) bubbles....these heat bubbles travel from the center outwards at the speed of sound until they reach and collect under the mantle in vast pools near plate boundries....then, walla....

....basically, the earth's farting....

[quaker bill]

73. What? no Sarah Palin?

[pinniped]

74. Other: Westborough Baptist Church and Wegener

[Sonicwall]

75. God farting!

:shrug: