@Incubus (Incubus) posted a new topic, subject "(spoilers) Could DESTINI really work?". It read:

   Could the earthquake machine in _The Core_ really work in real life? I know the movie had quite a bit of junk science. But would it be possible, given sufficient energy, to generate earthquakes in such a fasion?

Then @Baldwin (Baldwin) said

    Haven't seen the movie. What mechanism was involved? As far back as the 1930's, there was fiction about creating earthquakes using a piezoelectric effect in subterranean quartz strata.

Then @Incubus (Incubus) said

    My memory is kind of fuzzy, but I vaguely recall it involving directing magnetic particles through fault lines. The machine was located in Alaska and looked like a gigantic spark plug hovering above a large cylinder of wound wire.


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