Everything is cold. In fantasy-land we could write "It is always coldest before the warmth.'. That's beautiful!
I don't have anything to say. I just note that for us, the Gulf heat has given up, leaving us to the mercy of the Arctic winds. In a classic short cold cycle, like the 70's, we would be going into a static balance, making everything hot. Perhaps for a major cycle, like this, we have no summer. We just don't know what happened here during the Little Ice Age.
The main epicentre is located by seismometers and is at the top of the rupture. This is called a subduction zone, but you can see a real subduction zone right beside it.
These are not what I call 'clean' subduction zones, and may only produce M9's rarely, or not at all. The M8 earthquake produces the maximum of what we can expect for an earthquake, but an M9 shakes longer. You will never get the pgv higher than this, whatever it is.
However, thousands of structures have been weakened by this earthquake, and I would call it quite likely that another one goes off on either side of the basin. It seems similar to Christchurch.
So, in a few months, all buildings that 'look alright' will be cleared. Then, bang! Another one. I give this a good likelihood, but who am I?
If you want to live in a building here, try to get pictures of it being constructed. The steel will be obvious. If you had followed my 'Handy Dandy Guide to Riding Earthquakes' you would have measured the seismic noise when built, and now check it after the earthquake. It should show no difference. If the building has softened, get out of Dodge.
Anyway, my official opinion is to believe everything they say.
ps what I really wanted to say is that in all these earthquakes, the highlands go up, and lowlands go down. The topography tells you a lot.
Instead of Chromebooks, you go one step down, and just have a built-in browser. It is keyed with encryption to a server machine that runs ChromeOS. There is no way to break this.
My one worry was 'interception' by creeps pretending to be kids. This is quite simple, since you put the whole onus of registration on the kids and the schools. We would also have a phone-like portable tablet. Most likely you would just have larger and smaller tablets.
The Kinternet Universe should not be a dull leftie paradise. This is the difficult part, since education is all lefties and they like to control everything. Educators would patrol the area, but we must allow some freedom to make mistakes and then be corrected for it. Lefties, like that federal minister, like to over-control and forget the consequences. Anyway, all the shouting would be about this world.
You could have a kid-friendly fortnight thing, with avatars. No money, no credit cards. The Scientific Method would look at the usefulness of the education, marks, etc. Self-starting is vital. No political propaganda hammering. This really is 'milk toast' like the googs gaming system, but I hope it would be fun.
The way around it, is for the cool kid, of divorced parents, to bring in a loaded iphone to school. This would be treated like a gun. You can easily tell by all the kids crowded around it. It's quite simple to make it a crime to give a loaded iphone to a kid. It's like cannabis!
The SM approach is to make a hypothesis that the kids will be better off. You need to show that with measurements. Using pure SM, you are immune to influencers who think an El Nino is on the way. I don't know if that is possible. However, it is technically possible, keeping the cost down to 2 years per kid.
The main savings will be to use the second-grade chips and processors on the racks of the data centre. The super-duper stuff goes to AI. My tiny AMD computer is sufficient. Millions of these could be in a used data centre. No new building is required. Live off the stuff the AI crowd throws away.
- finished.
ps I was thinking of the early railroads with spaghetti rail line everywhere, all different gauges. The money is in building the stations.
ps we can avoid propaganda by leaving that to the schools, and treat this as a resource centre. Out of work librarians can curate it.
