Originally posted by VX-7RThe signals we're seeing on the various seismographs might well be the signals from such shaker trucks being used.

Originally posted by Shirakawa
Would those shaker trucks mentioned work 24h non-stop for days?
We've had these signals for days since the last relevant quake stroke the area and they have never stopped. It seems unlikely to me that these trucks would be used for all this time.

The main clue for signals of human nature is activity mainly during working hours only.

[edit on 2009/1/6 by Shirakawa]

Originally posted by Shirakawa
Would those shaker trucks mentioned work 24h non-stop for days?
We've had these signals for days since the last relevant quake stroke the area and they have never stopped. It seems unlikely to me that such trucks would be used for all this time, also because of running costs, noise, pollution (remember that we're talking about an important national park).

The main clue for signals of human nature is mainly activity occurring only during working hours, by the way.

[edit on 2009/1/6 by Shirakawa]

Originally posted by RFBurns

Originally posted by littleflower

It's not making any sense to me either - it seems to me there could be multiple servers that it goes to simultaneously. The private server would not be accessed by the public and so would not be compromised.

The key word here is "preventative measure", meaning to guarantee that this data is put where it needs to be when it is most important to have that data where it needs to be...in the hands of the extremely qualified geologists and volcanologists who can quickly analyze the data and see if there is any threat.

No one can tell me that they dont understand how a website or a server can be overloaded with tons of hits and data bandwidth clogging and bog down to a next to nothing crawl..that is the last thing the geologists and volcanologists need when trying to get readings from their sensors detecting this siesmic data.

These siesmic sensors that spit out data, are not mega fast 100Ghz speed, 500Gb per second units. And when hundreds of thousands of people start pulling real time data from them through "front door servers", those servers must pull that data even more heavily from the sensors as well, that will cause potential cloggs of the data flow that the scientists need. So the system has a system to prevent that from happening.

We are talking about real time data flow, not stored and segmented stream bits like an audio server or video server. If anyone has watched youtube videos...and I cant imagine who has not...sometimes those videos will pause and buffer and start again. That is the exact thing the scientists do not need to happen to their data flow from the sensors, so the system has a way to prevent that from happening.



Cheers!!!