There is always a lot of junk science and numerous conspiracy theories that follow any great disaster. The tsunami in Asia is no different. From the Jerusalem Post:
The earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, triggering a series of huge waves called tsunami, “was possibly” caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which “Israeli and American nuclear experts participated,” an Egyptian weekly magazine reported Thursday.
According to Al-Osboa’, India, in its heated nuclear race with Pakistan, has lately received sophisticated nuclear know-how from the United States and Israel, both of which “showed readiness to cooperate with India in experiments to exterminate humankind.”
Since 1992, the magazine argued, leading geological centers in Britain, Turkey and other countries, warned of the need “not to hold nuclear experiments in the region of the Indian Ocean known as ‘the Fire Belt,’ in which the epicenter of the earthquake lies.
This is of course just one of many stories being put out by an odd assortment of nut-jobs. Sepia Mutiny reader Julie T alerts us to others:
“There’s a lot more to this. Why is the US sending a warship? Why is a senior commander who was in Iraq going there?” whispered designer Mark Tyler, drinking a pint of beer at a bar in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district.
“This happened exactly a year after Bam,” said Tyler, referring to the earthquake in Iran which killed 30,000 on December 26 last year. “Is that a coincidence? And there was no previous seismic activity recorded in Sumatra before the quake, which is very strange,” he said, nodding sombrely.
…Among the more common suggestions is that eco-weapons, which can trigger earthquakes and volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves, were being tested. More outlandish theories include one that aliens caused the earthquake to try and correct the “wobbly rotation of the Earth”.
It would make perfect sense though, if this was the opening attack in an alien invasion. Everyone knows they have gravity altering weapons.
