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Originally posted by Moobie
I think that's the point. It's like having an amp with a volume setting of 11.
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I had one in the 80's with a volume setting of 30. It was actually advertised to be much louder BECAUSE it went to 30 instead of only 10. I'm surprised it didn't spark a dial-markings arms race.
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Originally posted by rodb
I hate the title of this show or whatever. You would think that the smartest people in the world, television executives, would know the richter scale has a vertical asymptote at 10.
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Not really. It's a logarithmic scale, which means that it eventually approaches vertical but never actually is vertical. Theoretically, an r15 earthquake is possible, but of course it's never gonna happen - - only 3 or so earthquakes in recorded history were 9 or greater. 9 on the richter scale, btw, is a "total destruction" earthquake - -shit gets thrown in the air, nothing's left, it's like a nuclear bomb went off.
oh, and the movie? It's stupidity is only eclipsed by it's stupidity. The dialog sucks, the plot sucks, the effects suck. It's actually worse than Twister. At least in Twister you had the one realistic scene (cooking the ham and eggs
