Butterfly Effect

Why not? So, you think in a universe where the wings didn't flap, it'd be exactly the same? Yo crazy.

Yes, I am crazy. Don't believe me? Just ask my donuts. Or the Monkeys that follow me no matter where I go. But I'm not as crazy as to believe the universe has wings.
 
I 99% agree with you. A lot of the stricter Butterfliests seem to think that any change will be huge quickly. I don't believe that. However given enough TIME (the thing people ignore way too much) then I can believe that changes might be huge.

That means you 1% disagree with me! (Yes, I can do basic math). I don't think the planet has enough time in its existance, future and past, to have a butterfly flapping wings having any impact on the atmosphere. We've set off nukes, and the atmosphere just absorbs it. Now if you want to talk about tinkering with DNA in the past, then perhaps.
 
Are you sure? Causing an earthquake out of the blue would be difficult. But I'm pretty sure if you set off a nuke on top of a fault line or on top of a volcano, it would do something. Can anyone with a working knowledge of geology confirm or deny this, please?

Oil drilling has been linked by some to earthquakes.

Anything which can affect the growth of glaciers, the water table, or results in enormous masses being moved could potentially change enough for an earthquake pattern to be different.
 
That means you 1% disagree with me! (Yes, I can do basic math). I don't think the planet has enough time in its existance, future and past, to have a butterfly flapping wings having any impact on the atmosphere. We've set off nukes, and the atmosphere just absorbs it. Now if you want to talk about tinkering with DNA in the past, then perhaps.
We're not talking about climate here, but weather. Have you seen the range that hurricane path predictions have, only days in the future? Weather patterns are so fickle that we can't even say for sure what the weather will be like two weeks in advance. Forest fires, blizzards, and maybe droughts can definitely be changed within a few years at least even for a rather small change just because of the randomness that is already inherent in the weather.
 
We're not talking about climate here, but weather. Have you seen the range that hurricane path predictions have, only days in the future? Weather patterns are so fickle that we can't even say for sure what the weather will be like two weeks in advance. Forest fires, blizzards, and maybe droughts can definitely be changed within a few years at least even for a rather small change just because of the randomness that is already inherent in the weather.

Those Kuwait oil fires must've affected the weather, I'm sure.
 
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