We have been fast at work these last few weeks and I'm happy to say things are moving along. We have a trailer in its final stages of completion, and our Kickstarter project is ready to go. These things will be posted in the next few days, so look for them.
We would like to thank Biju, the coordinator of the Indian conference, for offering to give us quite a discount for attending the event. We have also been invited to attend a post-conference field trip in the week following the conference, to study some Precambrian terrain just north of Kanyakumari, where the conference is taking place. This will be a rare opportunity to accompany scientists of diverse backgrounds from all over the world.
Also to the various other members of the scientific community who have extended their support to the film, not the least of which is Dong Choi, Editor-in-Chief of New Concepts in Global Tectonics (which is now a journal), we thank you.
We have also garnered the support of the famed John Taylor Gatto, whose efforts to investigate and explore the various problems in the American public school system have been invaluable and, for us, will play a big role in the education portion of our film.
We have learned more information pertaining to earthquake prediction than we ever could have imagined. The more we learn, the more important this film appears to get. Two methods have been successful in predicting earthquakes; one involving 'vapor clouds' and the other 'gravity anomalies. The Global Network for the Forecasting of Earthquakes (GNFE) was successful in predicting the Sendai earthquake in Japan using the latter method. Neither of these methods uses Plate Tectonic Theory. And, in the time since the Sendai earthquake, at least one prominent Japanese Plate Tectonics advocate has gone on record saying that Plate Tectonics is inapplicable to that earthquake.
Our intuition that this film will be important is becoming evident by the day.
Yet despite all of this good news, the conference is only 3+ months away, and the clock is ticking. I think we can beat it, but we need your help to do it.
In the meantime, John and I have decided to see if we can get some interviews here locally. The Geology Department here at the University of Arizona happens to be one of the top schools in the country for Geosciences (14th, in fact, according to Geotimes). As it turns out, some of the terrain here in our own backyard is a subject of controversy even within the department. We will use it as a point of entry, and see what happens.
While you're hunkered down in your Arizona base camp, have you considered talking to Richard Greenberg, Planetary Science Professor at U of A? He's been publicly critical of the ways that the current organization of science often retards progress. ("Something is wrong with the scientific enterprise as a whole if it routinely punishes innovation in this way" - Unmasking Europa, 2008) Planetary Science is only a stone's throw from geology and geophysics.
ReplyDeleteI haven't, but I will look into that. The last guy we interviewed dabbled in Paleoclimatology on Mars.
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