Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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fell.
And he deduces from this, the higher bricks fell further.
So this means the buildings would have been swaying like this, which is what throws them further.
Therefore, the earthquake is an undulation or a wave.
And then he has a theory about what's underneath the earth.
By the way, there's a rival theory.
A minister in Boston, the Reverend Prince, who's at the Old South Meeting House, says, the problem is we've put up all these electrical rods.
This is another Franklin's innovation.
We can stop lightning from burning down houses by putting up lightning rods.
The Reverend Prince says those are retracting the electrical fluid.
This is what caused the earthquake.
We have too many electrical rods.
And so Professor Winthrop has to counter that particular theory, which he does very gently.
But it's an argument about what is making this happen.
Yeah, the big, big news for us in the 1760s was Venus is going to transit across the sun.
And by the way, the next time this is going to happen, for those of you who think, boy, that might, it happened in, I think, 2005, 2011.
The next time is going to be in 2117, right?
Yeah.
And after that, it'll be 2125.
And then it's going to be in the 2200s, the next one.
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