« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.  (Read 2059 times)

kgbsquirrel

  • APS Photoshop God
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,466
  • Bill, slayer of threads.
Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« on: October 22, 2012, 07:15:12 PM »
No, this is not The Onion. Aside from the blatant stupidity that is blaming someone for failing to predict an act of god, can anyone say chilling effect? What's next, jailing meteorologists who fail to predict excess rain that destroys crops or leads to flooding of a town?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/earthquake-scientists-jail-conviction-italy_n_2002848.html
Report to moderator   Logged

Lee

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 3,181
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2012, 07:36:48 PM »
Why can't the Pope predict earthquakes? I don't get it - he's supposed to have better connections to acts of God than these guys.
Report to moderator   Logged

TommyGunn

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 7,956
  • Stuck in full auto since birth.
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2012, 07:43:26 PM »
Thank God for the Mayans................ [tinfoil]
Report to moderator   Logged
MOLON LABE   "Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed." ~~ Cicero

Lee

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 3,181
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2012, 08:28:15 PM »
Ima thinkin ...thata maybe the judge, he getta message thata say, ima predict that you wife gonna get in a fisha wrapped ina paper tomorrow ifa you dona convicta these a scientist.

Of course I'm guessing their Italian is betta than mine.
Report to moderator   Logged

French G.

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 10,199
  • ohhh sparkles!
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2012, 08:45:09 PM »
I like your italian. Of course now I'm picturing the retarded cartoon crocodiles.

I figure sue when your golf game gets rained out.

As for suing for a flood, could be epic, at least the countersuit against the people that built in the floodplain for the 5th time.
Report to moderator   Logged
AKA Navy Joe   

I'm so contrarian that I didn't respond to the thread.

vaskidmark

  • National Anthem Snob
  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 12,799
  • WTF?
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2012, 12:42:58 AM »
But what if they had predicted the earthquake, people acted prudently and evacuated (including moving major assets and manufacturing plants) and then nothing happened?  Should they get sued for the costs because they were running around like Chicken Little?

stay safe.
Report to moderator   Logged
If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.

Perd Hapley

  • Superstar of the Internet
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 61,484
  • My prepositions are on/in
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2012, 12:56:49 AM »
"Earthquake scientists"   :rofl:  Hey, HuffPo - in the Red States, we call them seismologists.  :P


What do you call six scientists in prison?

A good start.

(I don't know why, but I find that joke very funny. I'm sorry, I won't let it happen again.)

Report to moderator   Logged
"Doggies are angel babies!" -- my wife

280plus

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 19,131
  • Ever get that sinking feeling?
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2012, 11:49:05 AM »
Why we always blaming these horrible events of death and destruction on God anyways? Shouldn't we be blaming Satan? Just sayin' Or askin' whatever...
Report to moderator   Logged
Avoid cliches like the plague!

AZRedhawk44

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 13,987
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2012, 11:54:35 AM »
Quote from: 280plus on October 23, 2012, 11:49:05 AM
Why we always blaming these horrible events of death and destruction on God anyways? Shouldn't we be blaming Satan? Just sayin' Or askin' whatever...

I think the religious folks like to think that forces of evil such as Satan have no power in this world unless invited to have power, by infiltrating the integrity of people.  Devilish forces only act through corruption of man and not by manipulation of inanimate matter.

I think.


Whereas God hurts us physically with crashed planes and earthquakes and so on to show he lurvs us.  Or something like that.
Report to moderator   Logged
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
--Lysander Spooner

I reject your authoritah!

280plus

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 19,131
  • Ever get that sinking feeling?
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2012, 01:02:03 PM »
Hmph, points to ponder... You now, if you're into pondering stuff.  :cool:
Report to moderator   Logged
Avoid cliches like the plague!

Balog

  • Unrepentant race traitor
  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 17,774
  • What if we tried more?
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2012, 02:38:22 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on October 23, 2012, 11:54:35 AM
I think the religious folks like to think that forces of evil such as Satan have no power in this world unless invited to have power, by infiltrating the integrity of people.  Devilish forces only act through corruption of man and not by manipulation of inanimate matter.

I think.


Whereas God hurts us physically with crashed planes and earthquakes and so on to show he lurvs us.  Or something like that.

You might wanna work on your theology a little.
Report to moderator   Logged
Quote from: French G.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.

Quote from: Standing Wolf
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.

zxcvbob

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 12,267
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2012, 03:48:31 PM »
Quote
Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake

It makes a great story, but is that really what happened?  Or did the experts tell the worried villagers there was no danger because the small tremors had already released the bound energy?  In other words, they didn't fail to predict an earthquake, they DID predict no quake.

I can see a case for liability here -- not necessarily criminal liability, but I dunno how Italian law works.
Report to moderator   Logged
"It's good, though..."

brimic

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 14,270
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2012, 03:51:38 PM »
Can we convict algore for his global warming prediction failures?
Report to moderator   Logged
"now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb" -Dark Helmet

"AK47's belong in the hands of soldiers mexican drug cartels"-
Barack Obama

vaskidmark

  • National Anthem Snob
  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 12,799
  • WTF?
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2012, 07:12:57 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on October 23, 2012, 03:48:31 PM
I dunno how Italian law works.

Probably about as well as Italian economics.

stay safe.
Report to moderator   Logged
If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.

Perd Hapley

  • Superstar of the Internet
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 61,484
  • My prepositions are on/in
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2012, 09:22:04 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on October 23, 2012, 07:12:57 PM
Probably about as well as Italian economics.



Or Italian politics?
Report to moderator   Logged
"Doggies are angel babies!" -- my wife

Tallpine

  • friends
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 23,172
  • Grumpy Old Grandpa
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2012, 09:23:11 PM »
Quote from: fistful on October 23, 2012, 09:22:04 PM

Or Italian politics?

Or Italian navigation? 
Report to moderator   Logged
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it.  - Ursula Le Guin

MechAg94

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 33,860
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #16 on: October 23, 2012, 09:41:06 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on October 23, 2012, 11:54:35 AM
I think the religious folks like to think that forces of evil such as Satan have no power in this world unless invited to have power, by infiltrating the integrity of people.  Devilish forces only act through corruption of man and not by manipulation of inanimate matter.

I think.


Whereas God hurts us physically with crashed planes and earthquakes and so on to show he lurvs us.  Or something like that.
more like "crap happens and through God's teaching and luv, we get through it.


Seriously, do you want live in a world where some well meaning deity coddles everyone?  Everyone would end up a bunch of silly liberals with no reality to interfere. 
Report to moderator   Logged
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”  ― Calvin Coolidge

Perd Hapley

  • Superstar of the Internet
  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 61,484
  • My prepositions are on/in
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #17 on: October 23, 2012, 09:57:59 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on October 23, 2012, 09:41:06 PM
Seriously, do you want live in a world where some well meaning deity coddles everyone?  Everyone would end up a bunch of silly liberals with no reality to interfere. 


 :lol:  Epic.


Yeah, God gets to play God because He's God.
« Last Edit: October 23, 2012, 10:04:46 PM by fistful »
Report to moderator   Logged
"Doggies are angel babies!" -- my wife

280plus

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 19,131
  • Ever get that sinking feeling?
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2012, 10:29:53 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on October 23, 2012, 07:12:57 PM
Probably about as well as Italian economics.

stay safe.
:rofl:
Report to moderator   Logged
Avoid cliches like the plague!

Azrael256

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2,083
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #19 on: October 23, 2012, 10:38:41 PM »
Quote
I dunno how Italian law works.

Let's just say Italians don't have a great track record when it comes to legal issues involving the sciences.
Report to moderator   Logged

280plus

  • friend
  • Senior Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 19,131
  • Ever get that sinking feeling?
Re: Italian scientists jailed for failing to predict earthquake.
« Reply #20 on: October 23, 2012, 10:56:02 PM »
Think Galileo...  ;)
Report to moderator   Logged
Avoid cliches like the plague!
Pages: [1]
« previous next »