Shoutbox

All planets, like all 9? Wow, that would be something like 1 in every 98719817 billion years or so... However, sometimes some planets do lign up (a few years ago there was such a line up of some objects I thought, earth moon mars or something) And yes they cause some extra gravity and thus high tides become extra high tides (or whatever it is called in English) and chances that vulcano's errupt are bigger, etc...

But don't take it too far though, even without ligning up of planets, natural disasters can occur (look at the Tsunami). Furthermore, it harsh, but there is not much special about what happened in southeast Asia. Continental plates move and collide all the time. It was only unfortunatly that the recent collision was a heavy one and in the middle of the sea causing the tsunami. (btw, the damage and loss would have been much much greater if that happened on land) and unfortunatly those area's are heavely populated and above all somewhat poor
(otherwise there would have been a warning system; because for such events, like tsunamis, there are very good and very reliable systems*)


* As a matter of fact, now (unfortunatly after the events) they are going to implement such a warning system, developped and teached by Belgium people btw.