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it's pretty arrogant to think that just cause things have been calm for 2k/4bil, things will always be calm

exactly

too many variables at the moment, we have around months predictions then- woooop: thousands++++ years

can't get them to acknowledge that; they see a handful of datapoints and think they cannot possibly be looking at a miniscule piece of a much larger picture

@Coolitic do you know they have recently been able to predict earthquakes from examining solar activity?

why?

YEah I know this

well, it is good to predict earthquakes; that is why

how is another question

I'm interested in the mechanism

not that it happened or not

well the moon already is a variable

the point is that the sun effects the earth in a way that is connected to earthquakes

?

so if the sun DOES have periods of abnormal activity, it wouldn't just result in radiation

Corrolation does not mean causation.
HOWEVER
Corrolation can be a reliable predicator.

oh, I thought you meant that by examining solar activity, we can use that information to better understand earthquakes

not that the sun *causes* earthquakes

yes, true; coorelation is not causality. however, only an idiot ignore correlation when they don't UNDERSTAND the cause

correlation is cause for inspection

agreed

What do we have to lose?

Potentially everything, how much of a sitting duck do you feel like being today?

well, the speculation or postulating a theory in the absence of a direct cause only can be correlated with other effects elsewhere; like say on the moon and on Venus

True science is not concerned about the "everything" in this scenario. Worst case scenario, you lose some grant money..

if you find evidence that 'something' who knows what happens every 10k yrs or so on venus, and the moon and on earth... you can narrow down the cause pretty quickly

especially if venus showed signs of geological activity 10k yrs ago

I would not be surprised of it hasn't already in our lifetimes, just not measured properly.

it's just an excercise in looking for patterns and seeing when to use supposition and when to used hard evidence

the odds that civilization is only 4k or so yrs old is slim at best given the planet is covered by 75% ocean, much of the ocean floor still unseen

Not entirely on board with the implication but yes. It's a vast unexplored

Although- aliens.

More taboo than your mother's sex habits

Imagine
A Cthulhu-esque race down there.
Judging us.

also, what does it mean that earth's magnetic pole is accelerating southward?

that's something that is a hard-fact

Jesus, some of the shit down south...

the rate at which the pole moves every year is now 4x as fast as it was decades previous

very creepy

Some of the conspiracy theories that direction are interesting