[californiadisasters] Re: Americans May Have Lost Respect for Nature's Risks

People everywhere in this world and this time actually believe science or heros will save humanity from anything especially itself! I have made the trek up the slippery (very dangerous) wall of Vernal Fall, and it was during a low water time. It was treacherous and beautiful, an experience I will not forget. But one that made me realize Nature has the upper hand and we are merely ants upon her palm! Sometime I wonder if all these quakes are not just the earth shaking us off or pushing us to another space.....yes, fantasy fairy tale thinking but when you are in the reality of nature it is difficult to think otherwise! I never understood why building lots of huge skyscrapers and homes did not weight down the earth's crust enough to be a factor in quakes. My college professor laughed when I asked about it. But now I read that the melting glaciers and loss of weight on the crust is a factor...hmmmmm. We impact earth much more than we think.

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, "Vic" <sactovic@...> wrote:
>
> Tom Lehrer put it this way:
>
> Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
> A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
> Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
> "Ha, Nazi schmazi," says Wernher von Braun
>
> Don't say that he's hypocritical
> Say rather that he's apolitical
> "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
> That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
>
> Vic
>
>
>
> --- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@> wrote:
> >
> > Kate,
> >
> > In light of your comment you'll like this:
> >
> > "Von Braun's interest in rockets was specifically for the application of
> > space travel, which led him to say on hearing the news from London: "The
> > rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet." He
> > described it as his "darkest day".[*citation
> > needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>
> > *] However, satirist Mort Sahl <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Sahl> is
> > often credited with mocking von Braun with the paraphrase "*I aim at the
> > stars, but sometimes I hit
> > London*".[27]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#cite_note-sahl-26>
> >
> > Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Kate Hutton <katehutton@> wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > Might possibly have hit Paris while aiming at London ...
> > >
> > > Kate
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> He never hit Paris but he did hit London. ;-p
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Louis N. Molino, Sr. <lnmolino@>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> I call BS. Humans at least some have always walked on the edge and even
> > >>> the ledge.
> > >>>
> > >>> Had Werner VanBraun not aimed for the Moon He'd never had hit Paris.
> > >>>
> > >>> Louis N. Molino, Sr.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
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