The NK Nuke that Wasn't - WTF?

[wendigo100]

... and the Lizard people are slowly taking over the world

My wife and kids were down in The Lizard on holiday in August. I thought they came back looking a bit funny...

[The Master]

I am the brains behind the operation. Although these lizard persons have their uses, they're not the most motivated of species. Cold blooded, don't you know?

[wobbegong]

I blame the whole issue on the journalist who first broke the story, the headline had a typo; it should've read "Unclear Test".

[Cowboy Bob]

3.7 is about half the size of 4.0 on the Richter scale isn't it?

No, 3.0 is exactly half of 4.0. And don't get me started on how the media misuse and confuse the terms Epicentre and Hypocentre.

(Bob in did a Seismology module during his degree mode...)

[Lucifer Box]

No, 3.0 is exactly half of 4.0. And don't get me started on how the media misuse and confuse the terms Epicentre and Hypocentre.

(Bob in did a Seismology module during his degree mode...)

Surely in terms of what you are measuring (the amplitude recorded on the seismograph), 3.0 is exactly one tenth of 4.0?

[Cowboy Bob]

Surely in terms of what you are measuring (the amplitude recorded on the seismograph), 3.0 is exactly one tenth of 4.0?

My bad, forgot that it uses log (base 10). Yes 3.0, is exactly 1/10th of 4.0.

[Mailman]

Whats really going on...

China is using it's proxy agent North Korea to divert world attention, knowing the US must respond, it is hoping to provoke the US into direct military action.

Uncle Sam has been responding long before them chingalines got their hands slapped by their lapdogs.

Perhaps though China is starting to wake up to the fact that the regime it has been propping up for the last 50 years is a liability?

The US cannot operate in more than 2 theatres of war at once,and that the current Iraqi & possibility of a future Iranian situation which may require a response will keep US forces occupied in the short term; all of which would leave China free to carry out it's long plan to seize Taiwan unopposed

Except for a pretty powerful Taiwanese presence that is...not to mention the lack of heavy lifting capability to get everything needed for an invasion a hundred odd miles off the coast.

Mailman