Seven Italian seismologists and technicians will charged with manslaughter for, wait for it...........
NOT predicting an earthquake.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/27/italian-scientist-charged-manslaughter-failing-predict-earthquake/
Just when you think governments can't be more stupid and over-reaching, there's always another way they prove you wrong.
Wow. Just wow. That is the stupidest thing ever.
That ought to encourage further research on earthquakes there...
And by encourage, I or course mean completely shut down.
Yeah, no kidding. If I were on that team, I'd be out of there in two seconds.
Hey, wait, does this mean if the tsunami warning system I just spent the last three years of my life on isn't perfectly clairvoyant, I COULD BE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER? Welp, I'm berkeleyed. I knew I should have just gone and worked for Big Oil.
This is what happens when you let people with NO understanding of how reality works, call themselves a government. Unbelievable.
If you read the article at nature , it's a little more involved than that. Rather than issue a warning, they just said, in short, "Nah, it's cool.". It wasn't, needless to say.
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110526/full/news.2011.325.htm
In reply to DoctorBlade:
That link didn't work. Is this the article?
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/473140a.html
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