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The real tinfoil types believe that the government cloud research facility in Alaska controls the weather globally and can cause earthquakes and tsunamis on command. We don't have any indication to believe that's true yet.

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True; there are the tinfoil hat types that believe that there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll, and then there are those that believe Bigfoot killed Kennedy with the mind powers he learned from the Lizard People of Zeta Reticuli B.

Edit: from the downvotes, I can only assume that I've offended the Bigfoot fans.

"from the downvotes, I can only assume"

Separately, as a karma strategy, it makes sense to upvote something that you reply to (regardless of whether you agree or disagree) as it tends to make your reply higher up (because the parent comment is higher up) and get more visibility which in theory should result in more karma.

I do this, but I justify it by thinking that the thread was important enough to me to reply to, so I should vote. I don't care about karma, but I'm more likely to get replies, or so I hope.

The funny thing is that we're probably just a few decades away from doing that, too.

well, as long as your thermonuclear nuke's seismic wave signature looks like tremor(s) of an earthquake, planting/burying it near continental plate dividers deep in the ocean should do the trick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale#Example...

Oh yes, we will surely get there eventually. But it probably won't be the giant sky-laser in Alaska that does it. Honestly I don't even understand how people came up with that one. I mean, what is the link between "sky-laser" and "earthquakes", other than "God is mad because we're shining the laser in His eye".

Great, looks like that's done, so that's it for old business. Any new business?

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