Posts by Ross Mason
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Mathew Poole. Re suburb distribution of income. Could have a first stab using the decile level of the schools around the city (local rather than private).
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SteveH. I'll go with the name of this post. :-)
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Well done folks, you found my deliberate powers of 10 error. ;-) I just knew I would dunk a mistake in there...
Frankly, if I was next to an Oklahoma bomb and a Tsar I don't think I would care how big it was. Even 10,000 tons of TNT is hard to imagine. But given it was the most powerful explosive around at the time Fat Boy went off it was probably the easiest to use.
Tsar = 7.1 Which goes to show there is a shit load of energy in the Alpine Fault when it lets go next with an 8+.
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Damn these multiple posts!!!! Have put Peter Hydes link on the other thread as well.
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A link has appeared on Sciblogs from Vicki Hyde, Scitech editor. Makes interesting reading of what is happening out in the edges.
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No, no, no, Stevie - god won't help us. THAT is the problem. For a guy who was going to take over the science portfolio when he came into office.....
Yes, it may have been a present from one of the kids. If so then please, tell me the name of their school science teacher! I want to educate them.
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Homegrown Chch Demo of Liquifaction.
Nice simple experiment. Always the best!!!
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Collegaue found this. I will plonk it in the other thread as well.
Liquifaction. Nice home grown Christchurch demonstration of the real thing
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No, it is Nukes to TNT. Here is a link that gives the equivalent tonnage of TNT V Richter Scale. Christchurch 2011 6.3 = 42.4 kiloton
The Oaklahoma Bombing was the equivalent of 2,200 kg of TNT (2.2 kiloton about a 5.5 earthquake). Pretty brutal bomb but a piddler to the Ruskie's Tsar H Bomb of 57 MILLION tons of TNT.
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So would I in normal circumstances but something made me stop; door knobs when all that is going on around you? This morning we find out
Memo: One must cease waving the wide broom of generalisation......