psychoceramics: Earthquakes, and the prediction and prevention thereof

[acb @ cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C. Bulhak)]

[N.A.F. McNelly]
> 
> Andrew C. Bulhak wrote:
> >Another earthquake predictor...  It appears that the prediction of
> >earthquakes is a common thread among kooks, crackpots and original
> >thinkers
> 
> And not just earthquake prediction - some years back a fair number
> of people in California were done in by serial killer Herbert Mullin,
> who was, I if I recall correctly, found to be a paranoid schizophrenic.
> 
> Mullen believed that he was preventing earthquakes by killing people
> periodically.

And who can forget Emil Matalik, who proposed self-spanking (or something
of the sort) as a solution to the earthquake problem?

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