There are numerous laws of physics, both within classical and modern physics. The field is slowly piecing things together. With the ability to probe deeper and deeper into space they are likely to find where constants do change and that physics, itself, posesses an evolutionary component much like species posess.

Wyoming is the United States coal capitol. Lots and lots of mining operations. Maybe the whole Powder River Basin will sink into the earth one day.

The Snowy Owl's natural environment (sea ice) is fading away at a more alarming rate than anticipated. A true doomsday scenario for all of us.

Somebody better get some white tarps and cover up the Artic seas during summer or we are all going to be screwed, not just the Snowy Owl.

That an interesting experiment but doesn't seem to push it far enough. I would have placed five starving monkeys in the cage as well to see that result, then replaced with more starving monkeys, one at a time.

Another interesting result would be to have five non-starving monkeys to begin, then replace with starving monkeys, one at a time.


That would be a banana blood bath! Unethical but interesting; just like humans.

This same whale watching outfit had a similar incident in 1998 resulting in two fatalities. It was determined by the safety board to be swamping from a large swell.

However, of note, one conflict was reported as the vessel possibly capsizing due to a sudden roll that threw everyone overboard. I find this account in line with a sudden jolt from a whale. Besides, stating that whales are the source of the fatalies would be bad for business.


Link to 1998 Transportation Safety Board of Canada report

Seriously, what are the odds of it happening twice. They are hiding something. I'm sure this next safety report will be interesting, being that seas were noted to be very calm. It will most likely get attributed to a rogue swell when in truth it was a rogue WHALE!

Stop killing people just to make a buck, please!

These are the folks and they were at this location a couple months ago, per Moe's original post. Per Conrad's post, the after shocks can continue for months or years.

Altarock started this fracturing (not fracking exactly) in 2009, I think. There was already a small swarm of quakes some time ago.

It just makes no sense to try to expand cracks near a volcano in order to create steam for clean energy. Besides, it's not truly clean energy as they pump chemicals with the water into these dormant cracks.

Fracking, used in the petroleum industry, actually polluted some ground waters.

I would do drugs too, if my man was a stay at home dad.

I'd put my money on Altarock as the cause of these swarms. They probably went too deep or created too much pressure with the water (and proprietary chemicals) they have injected into these existing cracks. Low frequency quakes can be caused by water movement through cracks.

Seems like a huge energy experiment since this volcano has now become the world's top monitored volcano. Hmmmm, what a coincidence. Good luck Oregon!

Whales sink boats. They are quite good at it. The whale could have poor vision and run into the boat, the captain's boat could be too close to the whale, the whale could hear a sound from the vessel that irritates it and ram the boat, and so on.

This would be my first guess, being that it's a whale watching boat. They are not out looking for goldfish, for pete's sake.