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The Jupiter Effect was a book written by the British astrophysicists John Gribben and Stephen Plagemann in 1974.
They documented that in March of 1982 all the major planets would form an exceedingly rare "grand alignment" on the same side of the sun - and that, as the earth passed between the sun and the massed rank of planets, it would be trapped in the middle of a gravitational tug of war.
A remarkable chain of evidence pointed to 1982 as the year in which the LA region of the San Andreas fault would have been subjected to the most massive earth quake known in the populated regions of the earth in the 20th century, they warned.
What happened? Absolutely nothing.
Just a friendly reminder that even the stoic field of science is susceptible to popular paranoia, expoitation and of course.... the tabloids.
It seems in America, the gullible are many, and the free thinking... few.
They documented that in March of 1982 all the major planets would form an exceedingly rare "grand alignment" on the same side of the sun - and that, as the earth passed between the sun and the massed rank of planets, it would be trapped in the middle of a gravitational tug of war.
A remarkable chain of evidence pointed to 1982 as the year in which the LA region of the San Andreas fault would have been subjected to the most massive earth quake known in the populated regions of the earth in the 20th century, they warned.
What happened? Absolutely nothing.
Just a friendly reminder that even the stoic field of science is susceptible to popular paranoia, expoitation and of course.... the tabloids.
It seems in America, the gullible are many, and the free thinking... few.