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If you are now fully retrofitted to survive a 9.0, why do we absolutely have to set off this earthquake now using hundreds of nuclear bombs?
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
If you are now fully retrofitted to survive a 9.0, why do we absolutely have to set off this earthquake now using hundreds of nuclear bombs?
- cm2012 11y agoMoral hazard. If you don't cause the quake that was promised, no one will ever believe you again.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoAfter 30 years? Probably enough time for enough people to wake the fuck up and realize what they are about to do.
- lifeformed 11y agoThe point was that many optimizations can be made if you make the quake happen at a specific time of day.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoMy point is that you can perform all of those optimizations and still not make the quake happen (since all of the optimizations seem to be occurring before the quake).
- thedufer 11y agoA good chunk of the optimizations are timing related, though. Low tide, summer, mid-day, etc. Not inducing the quake gives all of those up (not to mention the moral hazard of lying about it mentioned by others).
- agarden 11y agoBecause if you wait for it to happen on its own time, there will only be ninety seconds of early warning, and then only half an hour before the tsunami hits. Not much time to escape. If you set it off on schedule, everyone knows where they ought not to be that day and will have had plenty of time to make other plans.