Discussing Science with people who need to learn more science

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So, this can be rather Annoying right?

I got myself caught up in a little discussion earlier on today, where basically people were discussing the properties of Sound and how much damage Sound can actually do.

Until someone posed that a Strong enough Sound wave could cause an Earthquake.

"Wait, what? No it can't." I said as a pure reflex.

Thus started the discussion that Sound could cause Earthquakes. I tried to explain that the worst case scenario would be for a Strong enough, constant sound wave replicate the effects of a decent Aftershock. But it would never trigger an Earth Quake by itself. It's just not feasible.

The the argument was made that if the sound was really really really really strong it could... which i just replied that a sound wave powerful enough to trigger a real Earthquake would be so devastating on it's own that it would be it's own Phenomena, this would be the same as saying that saying a ton of C4 could cause an Earthquake...

Then people started point out examples from Batman cartoons and other such sources... at that point, patience is running short.

Finally the discussing culminated with somebody citing HAARP. As an Example that it was possible and it was actually already done.

This HAARP here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Fr...search_Program

At this point i promptly gave up on the discussion...

So, you guys ever went through stuff like this?