Planetary Doomsday

"This week lets get some science knowledge. Chelsea learns about how the shifting of the planets can mean the San Andreas fault could rupture. There is a whole lot of physics involved to calculate our doom."

Presented by: Chelsea
Category: Scientific Theory

The Jupiter Effect comes from a book of the same name published in 1974, where two scientist predicted the end of the world when all nine planets-one this wiki, we respect Pluto- were all on the same side of the sun. There confidence in this theory was puzzling, given that they admitted that such an event had happened before with no negative side effects. Still, they believe that a number of disasters, including a massive earthquake on the San Andrea's Fault would occur in 1982.

1982 came and went without incident, other than being one of the few years where there wasn't a significant earthquake on the fault. They wrote a second book speculating that it had already happened two years prior with the Mt. St. Helens eruption, but recanted their theory before it was published.

Takeaway: No one can predict earthquakes.