TECHNOLOGY VERSUS MAGIC IN NEW GUINEA

QUESTIONS, RESPONSES, MORE QUESTIONS

EDITOR'S NOTE: During the devastating PNP tsunami and ongoing a team from the National Science Foundation has been drilling test holes in the fault lines, 180: Woodlark Basin Project.  Below we consider the implications.

THE DIARY:

A journalist arrives at the drilling site.  Expressing questions and uncertainties about the ongoing project, the quake, the tidal wave, he discovers a strange play between the forces of technology and the forces of magic, the legend of a serpent, a mysterious eel that thrashes its tail in anger.

Equipment: Seismic Guns 3 /80 cu. in. SSI water guns. 2 /200 cu. in. Hamco water guns. 1 /400 cu. in. SSI water gun. 1 /1500 Bolt Airgun capable of 120 to 1000 cu. in.

MORE DATA FROM WOODLARK BASIN PROJECT

MIRROR FOR ABOVE DATA

ANIMATION: PAPUA AND NEARBY QUAKES

7/29/98 4:28 PM EDT: ANOTHER DANGEROUS QUAKE

The primary objectives at these sites are (1) to characterize the composition and in situ properties (stress, permeability, temperature, pressure, physical properties, and fluid pressure) of an active low-angle normal fault zone to understand how such faults slip

The Pacific "Ring of Fire" (named for the concentration of faults and volcanoes around its rim) is already very active and becoming more active. I see no reason to point the finger at any human activity when there is much more that mother earth is doing than we could ever possibly do to create such a disaster as the recent New Guinea tidal wave. Hilo is on the verge of having part of that Hawaiian volcanoe collapse, and when it does, you could see a tidal wave the size of the one depicted in the movie Deep Impact form. It could wipe out most coastal cities around the Pacific basin! If at that time geologists were drilling small exploratory holes on Hilo to determine subsurface pressures and movement in hopes of forecasting when the collapse will occur, are we then going to blame them for the disaster? more

HARRY MASON

1) The drill hole locations proposed in the Feb 1998 Drilling Prospectus may not have even been drilled yet - the exact timing proposed is unclear in the paper referred to.

2) The drill holes are to be located in the Coral Sea south of New Guinea - not far from Port Moresby and can have had absolutely NO role in triggering a sub sea quake on the northern coast of New Guinea some 1000 km northwest of this drill traverse and separated by numerous E-W major geological structures.

3) Of possible interest in this quake/tidal wave scenario (which has happened in this part of the World before and is most likely to be a natural event ) is the attached jpg of a recent news article re the French Aquitane ELF company exploring the ocean bed north of Borneo (Brunei) in a "secret operation to recover sunken treasure".  more

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