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    The Earthquake Dragons Who Embody Planetary Catastrophe

    Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One

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    Image of gusnyc.com gusnyc.com
    07/19/09

    In reply to The Earthquake Dragons Who Embody Planetary Catastrophe
    these are so dope
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    07/18/09

    In reply to The Earthquake Dragons Who Embody Planetary Catastrophe
    They should have a 'People acting like complete Bastards' Dragon.
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    07/18/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my...: I can see it now. "THAT WAS MY PARKING SPACE RAAAAAWWWRRRGH *fwoosh*"
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    Image of DeepFriar DeepFriar
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Earthquake Dragons Who Embody Planetary Catastrophe
    Pokemon are getting a little too scary these days
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    Image of disatess disatess
    07/17/09

    @DeepFriar: that was pretty harsh ,calling them pokemon
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    Image of nekoama nekoama
    07/17/09

    @disatess: Admittedly my first thought was 'hey, that's like that crazy turtle Pokemon', but I think that says more about my constantly selling the merchandise than about the design.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/17/09

    @DeepFriar: Just wait till you see the concept art for Pokemon: STI. Herpachu is terrifying. And Chlamydioto is just gross.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    07/18/09

    @nekoama:
    alright I give you that . :)
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    Image of HighNoon HighNoon
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Earthquake Dragons Who Embody Planetary Catastrophe
    Mr. Earthquake Dragon #1 seems to be cousin to some gryphons. And #9 looks like maybe he misses Surface. #2 just, um, rocks.
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    Image of John Portillo John Portillo
    07/17/09

    Spot on with #9's description.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    07/17/09

    @HighNoon: I loved Surface, so maybe that's why I liked 9 so much!
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    Image of HighNoon HighNoon
    07/18/09

    @Annalee Newitz: Me too. I so wish we had seen more of it. I'd even take a little comic book now. I'll have to just hang on to 9 though and sing "The Way We Were."
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    Image of blackoak blackoak
    07/17/09

    In reply to The Earthquake Dragons Who Embody Planetary Catastrophe
    Rather than a dragon that first one reminds me more of a gryphon or griffin (if I'm remembering the correct mythological creature).
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    Image of jmg134 jmg134
    07/10/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    Well there goes LA. I live in SD so please spare us.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/10/09

    @jmg134:



    Don't worry. San Diego has its own sources of trouble, like crazy tank-drivers and, if I'm not mistaken, dinosaurs. (Didn't Jurassic Park 2 take place in SD?)
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    Image of cletar cletar
    07/10/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    Well, better late than never, Lex Luthor. Maybe with Superman tied up in all that litigation, your long delayed plan can finally come to fruition.
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    Image of Magicant Magicant
    07/09/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    A couple thoughts - keeping in mind I'm not a geologist but I play one on TV (that is, if I was on TV and there was a role for me as a geologist)

    1) Parkfield is in the middle of nowhere, halfway between San Fran and LA. It would suck for those in the vicinity but doesn't seem like it would be a big quake for the major cities.

    2) Increased activity doesn't necessarily mean "major" quake, does it? Is there proof of that? It may just mean a quake is coming, but it could be a 3.0 or something.

    3) The world isn't ending until 2012.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/09/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    Wait, didn't Superman fix the SAF in 1978? Why is it acting up now? Did he screw up? Jeez... one simply cannot trust superpowered aliens these days, can we?
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    Image of krispykrink krispykrink
    07/09/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    Loved the 1989 quake during the battle of the bay. I surfed my couch in my living room and a buddy of mine got tossed out of his pool. Bring it on!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    @krispykrink: ... I was watching Sesame Street and Zazoo the Zebra was on.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/09/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: I was working in downtown SF as a messenger. Saw a huge chunk of masonry miss squashing a little old lady by inches. Hordes of shellshocked dust-coated commuters staggering out of the BART (subway) stations like zombies.
    Then the sun set and things got WeIRrDd.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    @Grey_Area: Great, after revealing just how young I am I feel like a wee tyke.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    07/09/09

    @krispykrink: My sister was stuck in a collapsing building and had to jump onto the roof of the next building. Not really fun. I went through an earthquake in the Seattle-Tacoma airport. Sound like a freight train from a few feet away, everything shaking (duh), light fixtures and anything not bolted falling, water spraying from broken pipes, broken escalators and elevators, etc. After I got back from being marched out onto the runway I rented a car, drove to Portland and caught another flight.
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    Image of allium allium
    07/09/09

    @Mathmos: San Jose. Indian Summer, 5 pm on a Tuesday. I had foregone my math homework for a round of Super Mario Brothers and was just getting up to switch the TV over to the World Series when the house started shaking.

    "Oh well," I thought. "Another quake." (That's how we roll on the Isle of Califa.)

    Then the liquor rack in the other room crashed to the ground, the floor decided to juggle me around a bit (no mean feat), and I figured it would be a good idea to stay prone for a while.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    @allium: You were in San Jose too, eh? Lucky you, you had Nintendo. Thankfully we only lost teacups.
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    Image of stereobot stereobot
    07/10/09

    @allium: Did you finish your game of Super Mario Bros? Do you know how to get to the Minus Worlds? Say what you will about them - sure, you swim forever until you run out of time, but at least there are no earthquakes to be found in the Minus Worlds.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    @Grey_Area: Dogshit and clamshells?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    @92BuickLeSabre: But I live in the Bay Area! Waaait... you! I get it now!
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/09/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    Wow. God's really not liking prop 8 is he?

    (Yeah, that's right, I went there.)
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    Image of 0kami 0kami
    07/09/09

    @alphanumeric1971:

    See! He's on OUR side. Take that, Mormons!

    ...

    Then why isn't sending ap ox on Salt Lake ity?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    *wets pants* Oh great, there goes my neighborhood.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/09/09

    @crashedpc: Don't worry. It's not going to happen. You don't need to go anywhere. Stay right where you are.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/09/09

    In reply to Tremor-Plagued California Fault About To Unleash The Big One
    Oh piffle! These "seismologists" don't know anything. What's the latest data from the crop circles? that's the only way to be sure.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/09/09

    @Grey_Area:

    "that's the only way to be sure"

    You betcha!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    @Grey_Area: Sadly, the crop circles predicting the next big one were destroyed in an earthquake that they failed to predict.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/09/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Must have been using the wrong fertilizer.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/09/09

    @Grey_Area:

    I hear that the brains of people who believe in crop circles make for very good fertilizers, 'cause they're full of shit.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    @Roklimber: www.instantrimshot.com
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    07/09/09

    @Grey_Area: No, I think what we really need is an exopolitician.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    07/09/09

    @Roklimber: its sad, but I started reading that as the brains of people who believe in crop circles taste very good....
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/09/09

    @Jim Topoleski:

    I'm sure they do, to other people who believe in this pseudoscientific crap. After all, these other people swallow a lot of shit.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/09/09

    @Annalee Newitz:

    Or, perhaps, an expert on "crop mathematics" ?

    I recently read an article from the "Metaphysical Universe Journal of Crop Mathematics" suggesting an extension from crop circles to crop spheres.

    The math is really complicated so I won't explain it in detail here. Suffice it to say that it involves proving that, quantum mechanically, 1 + 1 can have any value, including negative ones.

    The bottom line is that crop spheres are better predictors than crop circles because they have one extra dimension which the aliens can use to pass information to us.

    The authors expect to see crop spheres appearing soon in mountains all over the world.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/09/09

    @Roklimber: So MALT BALLS ARE THE FUTURE??
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