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We need to get this technical stuff out of the way as quickly as possible, because it has the unfortunate tendency of sending readers to sleep. Boring! Fear not, there is not much more of it, though we cannot let the government and media 'scientists' off the hook without covering the biggest impossibility of all. Once again my thanks to Archimedes, wherever he may be nowadays.
It is a fact that when a huge event like this happens, all kinds of different people want 'IN' on the action, and not always because they are corrupt bankers trying to lie to the western world. But what most of the 'in crowd' have in common, is the desire to help prove the official line of the day, i.e. that a huge naturally-occurring underground earthquake offshore Sumatra, killed nearly half a million people by generating a whopping great tsunami.
Such was the case with the British survey ship "HMS Scott", which approached the Sumatran Trench after the disastrous event, loaded down to the gunwales with bearded scientists wearing rubber boots and duffle coats. All very romatic and even slightly polar in flavor, but these men started out on the wrong foot, because they had already swallowed the "earthquake" line. So rather than starting out by investigating whether an earthquake had happened at all, these earnest gentlemen too a fatal leap of faith into the unknown, and started out by investigating how the alleged but unproved quake had happened.
This got the hearty crew of HMS Scott into trouble immediately, because there was no hard evidence of anything, in an area they freely admitted had never been properly seismically surveyed before. Oops! So from the outset these scientists publicly admitted they were guessing, or more correctly were allowing their seismic instruments to guess for them.
The best they could manage came from a Dr Wynn, who said: "An area the size of a small town fell away from the slope and broke up into bits. Slabs of material travelled about 10km down the slope on to that flat bit of Indian plate and are just lying there. We don't know for definite that was caused by the recent earthquake but it's a very fresh looking feature."
Fresh, Dr Wynn, fresh? How on earth do you know? The inference surrounding this seminal quote was that the 'small town which fell to the bottom of the trench', was the culprit responsible for the massive tsunami that killed more than a quarter of a million people in Sumatra alone. But poor Dr Wynn had forgotten Archimedes Principle.
Sadly for the good ship HMS Scott, Archimedes Principle proves that the 'small town' could not possibly be the culprit, because it was already under water when it allegedly broke away and fell to the bottom of the 10,000 ps.i. trench. This means that the water displaced at the bottom of the trench immediately filled the void space from where the 'small town' had fallen further up, in precise matched volumes. So, terribly sorry Dr Wynn, no additional water dispacement for a tsunami, not even a baby tsunami.
If any reader wishes to prove this independently, it really is quite easy. Bearing in mind the mind-boggling scale of the Sumatra Trench, proceed as follows: take two 4 ounce pebbles and balance one on top of the other, at the bottom of a 2 gallon bucket. Now very slowly fill the bucket with water and mark the full level with an indelible marker. Next, take a very long thin knitting needle (or similar) and gently dislodge the top pebble so that it falls alongside the bottom pebble on the bottom of the bucket. Now note that the water level at the top of your bucket had not changed at all. So, sadly, no tsunami in the kitchen either.....