Ka-BOOM!!

THE SCENE: An underground physics lab full of impressive looking scientific equipment which beeps and pings in a seemingly random fashion. Test tubes bubble, oscillators oscillate etc. Two white coated scientists, THREEPGOOD and GARCIA are preparing an unspecified experiment.

THREEPGOOD: I say old boy, did you catch the cricket yesterday – that Khan fellow was smashing them out of the park, touch of Bradman about him.

GARCIA: No chance, I had to go to Ikea with the wife to look for more bloody light fittings.

THREEPGOOD: Again? I thought you went last week, and the week before that?

GARCIA: I did! We got the new towel rack OK but the lights we got had some pieces missing – I’m sure they leave some out on purpose. If only there was some way of getting back at them – I can’t go back there again next week…I, I just can’t …(begins softly weeping into a test tube and walks out of room).

THREEPGOOD: Hate to see a chap down in the dumps like that…if only we could use our super high beam VCOL pulse modulator as a tight field positron disruption unit…(rubs chin in meaningful way)

Two weeks later. GARCIA is a wreck of his former self – dishevelled and with sunken eyes. He listlessly twiddles a few knobs on the flux capacitor but his heart’s not in it.

GARCIA: Did you see the news about those huge earthquakes in Haiti and Chile?

THREEPGOOD: Oh crikey.

So in summary, yes the two things may very well be connected..