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re: The earthquake game - myth? Any geologists out there?
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:06 pm to LSU Coyote
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:06 pm to LSU Coyote
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It was 05 Auburn I believe.
The OT FG try from Auburn was the loudest I have ever heard the stadium.
That the quietest to loudest moment I ever experienced in Tiger Stadium. It was so quiet on the try that the bounce off the upright seemed to echo across the stadium. Then the entire stadium erupted into a thunderous roar.
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Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:07 pm to Swamp Angel
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I hadn't heard that before. That's pretty damned cool!
Another part of it is, he was teaching at Stanford at the time, so it was passed on to him by (I'm assuming) the LSU geol faculty that were here at the time.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:09 pm to Swamp Angel
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Believe it or not, it's true. Furthermore, the geology department turns out graduates that are almost as good at geology as the students that graduate with degrees in petroleum engineering.
I'm going to pretend you didn't say that.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:11 pm to junkfunky
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Not sure. I'm just taking intro right now but am thinking about taking more geol classes for my electives. Falls in line with my love for physics and pursing a CE major.
Good luck in the pursuit of your degree, but let me issue a word of caution. . . if you're anything like me, once you get a taste spoon of what geology has to offer in GEOL 1001 and the labs, you'll find it a hard habit to break!
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:13 pm to GeoBreaux
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Seismic "geophones" or "seismographs" record acoustic pulses. These pulses are vibrations caused by a FORCE. The force could be created in the subsurface(earthquake), or on the surface. All you need is something to generate s-wave or p-waves. You could bang a hammer on the ground and a seismograph would pick it up. I'm a geologist and current master student here at LSU.
You are correct plus congrats and good luck in grad school. If I were to do it all over again, geology is what I would seriously consider. After moving to Southern California, I became much more interested in it and it is not just about earthquakes, even though they are fascinating and scary as hell.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:16 pm to GeoBreaux
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I'm going to pretend you didn't say that.
GeoBreaux, I HAD to say it just to get on your one nerve. You're living a dream that I once had but forsook for a BA in foreign languages and political voo-doo (I mean, "science").
God bless you in your endeavor to bring oil to the light of day from the depths of pitch-black, pressurized hell. I HATE the very idea of electric automobiles and cooking without a GAS stove!
(And Happy belated Birthday!)
This post was edited on 10/19/11 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:16 pm to Olive
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Jesus, you're fricking insufferable. Signed, a working geophysicist.
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:17 pm to Swamp Angel
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God bless you in your endeavor to bring oil to the light of day from the depths of pitch-black, pressurized hell. I HATE the very idea of electric automobiles and cooking without a GAS stove!
Did we just become best friends??
YUPP!!!
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:21 pm to bulldogger
Twenty years later ‘Earthquake Game’ still echoes via The Daily Reveille, 10/9/08
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As Haliburton mugged Fuller in the end zone, accounting professor Dave Anderson celebrated with the masses packed into Tiger Stadium.
"I've only missed two home games in 45 years," Anderson said. "And that was easily one of best five games. It was a huge defensive struggle, and I remember feeling pessimistic about our odds. So everybody was real down and all of a sudden, boom, you win."
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:26 pm to GeoBreaux
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Did we just become best friends??
Of course!
Dad was a petroleum engineer. LSU class of 1954. Studied under the legendary Murray Hawkins. He worked the gas fields of Virginia, West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky. I learned a lot from him drilling for gas in the Devonian shale in Boyd, Carter, and Lawrence counties in Ky. (Learned that I would be an LSU Tiger instead of a Kentucky Wildcat from him too. Dad was awesome!)
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:39 pm to Swamp Angel
Sounds like a good man. My younger brother is a senior PET-E major at LSU right now. Oil runs in our veins too. ha 
Posted on 10/19/11 at 6:42 pm to xXLSUXx
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We faked it. We faked all of it.
The moon landings also happened in the basement of the LSU Geology building.
True story.
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