Earthquake and Tornado Forecasting Programs June 13, 2006
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From: edgrsprj on 13 Jun 2006 07:39 "edgrsprj" <edgrsprj(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:D7qAe.21003$eM6.9503(a)newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net... > PROPOSED EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING > COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT EFFORT > > Posted July 11, 2005 > My main earthquake forecasting Web page is: > http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/Data.html > EARTHQUAKE AND TORNADO FORECASTING PROGRAMS Posted by E.D.G. June 13, 2006 http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/Data.html The information in this report represents expressions of personal opinion. On July 11, 2005 I posted a report to a number of Internet Newsgroups including sci.geo.earthquakes stating that I was considering creating a Web site where researchers around the world could post notes and develop computer programs associated with the science of earthquake forecasting. This present report is an update on that project. The effort is still underway. The present plan is to try to get the proposed Web site organized for the science of earthquake forecasting and then expand it to include other sciences such as tornado forecasting and different areas of medicine. The ultimate goal is to have discussion areas there for as many of the problems which threaten the health and lives of people around the world as possible. Professional and amateur computer programmers would probably be heavily involved with this work. Since that first report was posted last July I have been able to establish what looks like it will be a stable source of funding for the effort. It should at least enable me to continue working on the project and pay for things such as Web site rental fees etc. And I am presently working with two groups of legal people who are attempting to create a formal organization through which the actual funding and Web site operation etc. will take place. How fast this effort will progress is at the moment largely up to those legal groups. One of them is supposed to create the necessary legal documents. The other will be doing the filing with government agencies etc. Unfortunately, since I am not a major client of either group they are doing the work when they are not busy with other clients. A formal legal organization intended to be an introductory version of this new organization has existed since 2002. But it took my legal people about eight months to get all of the paperwork done and filed. The present effort has been underway for a month. Hopefully it will not take another seven months to finish. PROPOSED WEB SITE A number of years ago I worked with a Web site development expert to create a discussion group for earthquake forecasting. I believe that it eventually evolved into the two following discussion groups. The original Web site expert is no longer involved. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/earthwaves http://www.earthwaves.org/wwwboard/wwwboard.html For this proposed Web site I would probably try to use a discussion board which would be a highly modified version of that second board. And it will take a fair amount of computer programming to create the new version. The problem with the existing discussion board control computer program is that it is does not offer the necessary posting options. When researchers post a note to such a board, rules have to be in place regarding what types of notes other people can post in response. That is an absolute necessity. And the structure of that present board does not contain those types of rules within the control computer program itself. More details regarding that proposed Web site can be found in the following report that I submitted for a United Nations disaster mitigation related discussion back in July of 2004: http://www.unisdr.org/wcdr-dialogue/t3-dialogue.htm#34 Based on their starting dates etc. I believe that my report might have already led to the creation of the following Web sites: http://www.hewsweb.org http://www.grassroots.org Keep your fingers crossed. If the effort to create this proposed Web site is successful then it might assist researchers in quite a few areas of science and medicine around the world with significantly accelerating their lifesaving efforts.
From: Frank Silvermann on 13 Jun 2006 13:05 [snip] I look forward to a day when meteorology has more to do with precise models than models, although I'm all for Russian-style delivery of such data. I forecast that a lot of people will be surprised by the weather today, as they are categorical idiots, as is the OP. frank
From: CBFalconer on 13 Jun 2006 14:03 Frank Silvermann wrote: > > [snip] > I look forward to a day when meteorology has more to do with precise > models than models, although I'm all for Russian-style delivery of such > data. I forecast that a lot of people will be surprised by the weather > today, as they are categorical idiots, as is the OP. frank Oh for a newsreader that can eliminate all such ugly excessively cross-posted articles lacking follow-ups. PLONK thread is the only remaining answer. -- Some informative links: news:news.announce.newusers http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
From: Steve Holden on 14 Jun 2006 05:18 CBFalconer wrote: > Frank Silvermann wrote: > >>[snip] >>I look forward to a day when meteorology has more to do with precise >>models than models, although I'm all for Russian-style delivery of such >>data. I forecast that a lot of people will be surprised by the weather >>today, as they are categorical idiots, as is the OP. frank > > > Oh for a newsreader that can eliminate all such ugly excessively > cross-posted articles lacking follow-ups. PLONK thread is the only > remaining answer. > And oh for a newsgroup where people will just do the plonking without feeling a necessity to add fuel to the fire ... ? -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden
From: Aidan Karley on 14 Jun 2006 16:36
In article <448EFE0D.3B2D968B(a)yahoo.com>, CBFalconer wrote: > Oh for a newsreader that can eliminate all such ugly excessively > cross-posted articles lacking follow-ups. PLONK thread is the only > remaining answer. > See my reply posted to alt.disasters.misc and sci.geo.earthquakes for an alternative strategy. But yes, cross-posting like that is highly irritating, which makes the actual purpose of the original posting highly suspect. I don't know which of the comp.lang groups you're coming from, but since any of them could probably be used to write cross-post filtering code ... I'll leave the lot in. -- Aidan Karley, FGS Aberdeen, Scotland Written at Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:14 +0100, but posted later. |