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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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What is it about the 11th?

While we are somewhat on the topic of the earthquake and weird, I did watch a interesting video back in February.

I'm interested in the naked eye comet that we are going to be able to see at the end of this year (Elenin C2010X1). I was looking for more information about this comet when I stumbled across a video that was a little strange but plotted the course with JPL Small-Body Database Browser. That can be found here.
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin;orb=1;cov=1;log=0;cad=1#cad.

It shows the comet in its current position when you open the browser and you can speed it up to track its path.

Anyway, in this video the woman is speaking about how in the second week of March the earth would be in alignment with the sun and the comet. The south pole of the earth would align with the north pole of the comet, causing a large shift of the axis. She went on to talk about how to expect a large earthquake at that time.

I didn't give it much attention after that but when this quake happened, I can't help but wonder. Last night I looked for that video but it seems to be gone. I watched it sometime in February.

It's interesting, so is that link I posted for JPL( scroll up) on the page and set it on fast forward and watch the path of the comet.
 
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I was listening to the news a minute ago and they were talking about how the quake moved Japan's coastline by 13 feet and shifted the earth on its axis by 10 inches.

While they contributed the shift on the axis to the quake and not anything else, I still find it interesting that the video I watched was also right about the shift and quake in the second week of March. Considering the video came before the quake, I'm wondering which statements I should put more stock in? :D
 
Very interesting Dennis, I read something on that comet too. I forgot all about it because it was a couple months ago. Now that I read you post it made me remember. That is a good point. The shift in axis could of caused the earthquake, instead of the other way around. Who knows. I think the Earth is in a period of geological change. One earthquake seems to lead to another.
 
greencountryreps said:
Very interesting Dennis, I read something on that comet too. I forgot all about it because it was a couple months ago. Now that I read you post it made me remember. That is a good point. The shift in axis could of caused the earthquake, instead of the other way around. Who knows. I think the Earth is in a period of geological change. One earthquake seems to lead to another.
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Yeah, makes me wonder as well. We had Christchurch New Zealand, Chile, Japan. All big ones recently around the Pacific plate. Throw in a few now active volcanoes and seems something "big" has happened on all points on the pacific except for the west coast of the US.

Isn't it the northwestern states turn? I can do without one. :yesnod:
 
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Dennis Hultman said:
Anyway, in this video the woman is speaking about how in the second week of March the earth would be in alignment with the sun and the comet. The south pole of the earth would align with the north pole of the comet, causing a large shift of the axis. She went on to talk about how to expect a large earthquake at that time.
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Maybe I'm just having a dumb day, but for the life of me I can't see how a comet could cause earthquakes here on Earth unless it actually HITS the Earth. A comet, unless the size of a moon, just doesn't have enough gravitational pull to affect this planet, no matter whether it is in alignment with the sun or anything else. Comets are affected by the gravitational pull OF planets and the sun, not the other way around.

So someone please point out what it is that I am missing....
 
WebSlave said:
Maybe I'm just having a dumb day, but for the life of me I can't see how a comet could cause earthquakes here on Earth unless it actually HITS the Earth. A comet, unless the size of a moon, just doesn't have enough gravitational pull to affect this planet, no matter whether it is in alignment with the sun or anything else. Comets are affected by the gravitational pull OF planets and the sun, not the other way around.

So someone please point out what it is that I am missing....
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I'm not sure but I think the video was trying to make the case that the comet wasn't a comet. I was mainly looking for information about viewing the comet and dismissed the video and moved on. Only remembering it for the coincidence of the timing of the earthquake with what was stated in the clip.
 
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