AIBU to be irritated with the amount of scare-mongering crap being spouted about the terrible occurrances in Japan etc.

[ArfurBrain]

all the people full of shit about the earthquake being down to the so-called mega-moon this weekend (er, a big full moon CANNOT affect tectonic plates shifting, you ignorami),apocalyptic 2012 predictions (hmm yes, the Mayans who couldn't foresee the end of their own civilisation coming...), global warming causing all the recent natural disasters (again, not recycling or turning off the lights isn't going to cause earthquakes.)etc etc etc.

Actually I don't care if you think I am BU, I just need to get this off my chest before I upset some gentle wooooooo-wafting soul, to be honest.

It's the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief!

Please don't say I'm the only one wondering what a mega moon is (other than a very cool name )

I do agree with you though Arfur and it is frustrating.

In fact, there is a very small tidal effect on rock similar to the effect on water from the moon, although as rocks are solid it is a very very small effect.

DOn't think there has ever been a proven correlation with earthquakes, and someone must have done a study on it.

Personally, I think there has been so much awareness as the areas affected look a lot like everywhere else in the developed world. So people can imagine it more - "what if it happened here?" sort of thing.

But the end of the world theories - strictly for Science Fiction, I reckon!

Brian Cox would be turning in his grave.

If he was dead.

And if he believed in woo like turning in graves after death.

I read an article with an interview with a scientist who said there are earth tides, similar to sea tides but we don't notice them, and that the mega moon has a bigger effect on them than normal. It said that every time there is a mega moon there are bigger than normal natural disasters surrounding it.

I don't think it's the end of the world, it's ended too many times for us to worry about an earthquake ending it but I'm not sure what to believe about these earth tides. I'm not a scientist so not going to start to begin to pretend I understand them enough to say yes or no.

go forth and take it as thine own, Arfur.

I always though the Flying Spaghetti Monster was a vengeful god, the time of reckoning is upon us!

neverpooh - it's a super moon (i just like alliteration)It means the full moon makes its closest approach to earth on the 19th, in about 20 years, so it will appear huge

Oh Hallelujah! Voices of sanity!

Am sick to death of DM readers in my office telling me it's the begining of the apocalypse & we're all going to die on the 12th December next year.

Stop reading crap & believing it! And if you realty can't, stop bleating about it to sensible people who do have a grasp of how science & shit works!

(And I shall be using the phrase "twat-wankery-woo" on numerous occasions in the future. )

there HAVE been some natural disasters which has co-incided with a super moon. But there have been COPUNTLESS others which have not...

(offended noone noticed my lovely Geography Teacher Hat!?

Prof brian cox was asked this question the other day and his response was to laugh politely (whilst trying not to call the presenter an idiot) and said 'no'.

If lovely prof cox says it's true then it must be :)

Right, I have googled mega moon and this is what comes up.

Really? Strong enough to disrupt the earth. Does it shoot lasers? It plays music but still

Still clueless btw

ha ha! Brilliant!

Arfur - really only !skim-read half of the posts here, but YANBU, I agree with you completely!

confuddled, there's an article in this week's New Scientist about rippling rock, etc. But I can't find it on the website, and I can't be bothered to find the magazine to tell you about it.

The only thing that worries me is what our government is up to while everyone's distracted by the various earthquake aftermath.

Think we'll have a few nasty surprises from Cameron et al in the coming months.

Weegie, that's mighty fine. You're looking swell. (oh wait, perhaps that's the effect of the full moon on the tide...)

Prof Cox knows everything

s'not covered in tin-foil weegie!

X-post Arfur thanks

Prefer mega moon though

blaming DH's computer for the interesting punctuation there.

weegie where does one get a Geography Teacher hat? I have a Science Teacher hat, but I teach a bit of KS3 geog too, and am missing the head-wear.

Oh welshcakes don't be a spoilsport, I like it when someone bleats this DM crap, and everyone then moans about it on MN. How else would we get expressions like twat wankery woo

Hmmm, my post doesn't really make sense as my brain appears to have turned to mush since I conceived. What I was trying to say was prof cox said there wad no connection between the tsunami and the mega moon.

"Brian Cox would be turning in his grave.

If he was dead.

And if he believed in woo like turning in graves after death."

Brilliant

One of you (if not all) is deffo my mate Bec! What with the Cox-worship and brilliant expletives!

You have to make your own Geography Teacher hat out of brown cord and beard hair.

'Tis part of the course!