My sister is on tv!!!
Last night, there was an earthquake underneath Lake Erie, and channel 3 news interviewed my sister Rosemary on the eleven PM news. Be sure to click on the video!
Earthquake !!!
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Your sister’s a star! We had a few minor earthquakes in our area about 10 or so years ago. It was freaky.
Comment by Margaret — January 9, 2008 @ 8:59 pm
There’s nothing immediately observable about the bathymetry of Lake Erie (According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it looks something like this, cooler hues being deeper: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/erie.jpg ) in the Mentor area that that suggests the cause of an earthquake, except perhaps the lake’s quasi-linear shape (which could suggest a fault line — however, I am not an expert on plate tectonics, so of course I would not know, but if the experts didn’t let the public know that Lake Erie was a fault line, then they are jerks.)
Comment by Ben — January 13, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
Where do you acquire words such as bathymetry? Did you look that up or is it in your usual every day vocabulary?? Also, I have always known that there is a fault line in this area, We had an earthquake when you were a baby that made the refrigerator shake!
Comment by admin — January 13, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
As you can see, I solved the problem of the run-on comments all by my self by adding line breaks inside the div to make the entry bigger. You should be proud of your student!
Comment by admin — January 13, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
I found it by searching for the topography of Lake Erie, and all I got was bathymetries. It makes sense, though, since if oceans have a flat topography, that there should be a different term derived from water. Bathymetry makes sense, derived from a “Bath”, a Hebrew unit for measuring the volume of a liquid. (according to dictioary.reference.com)
If you’d like, I could start citing my sources in my comments.
Never assume that anything less than man’s entire knowledge of language is at my disposal in some form or another. =D
Comment by Ben — January 13, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
Additionally…
As a computer programmer, I find the distinction between “bathymetry” and “topography” an annoying one, as I would just use functions with parameters, for example:
Function X(Substance A, Substance B) returns a values matrix (grayscale image) of the relative height of Substance B as defined by its relationship with Substance A.
Atmospheric Depth = X(Space, Air)
Topography = X(Air, Land)
Bathymetry = X(Water, Land)
The list could go on.
Comment by Ben — January 13, 2008 @ 10:53 pm
Actually, that’s wrong. Atomospheric Depth would be an inverse of Topography. The topography of the air should be more or less a flat gradient. Maybe.
I have reached the limits of my current knowledge. *cries*
Comment by Ben — January 13, 2008 @ 10:55 pm