Message from @Redxl
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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
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
that is quite likely due to the south west anomoly
as the pole moves south, the earth's magnetic field is no longer a dipole