Message from @ManAnimal
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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
as the pole moves south, the earth's magnetic field is no longer a dipole
it creates 'holes' where the field fluctuates and is more at risk to solar activity
Has it ever been? Dunno askin
Annnnd, soon we'll all go OCD levels for building pyramids?
I know other planets aren't dipoles
yeah, it is usually pretty uniform
And generally rotating molten metal is not exactly orderly
no one really understands how that mechanism works
i mean, how are earthquakes and the sun related?
mass, pull
Yeah I'm aware of the convection explanation
position
how could you
do the tectonic plates 'float' on the liquid core?
not entirely
You're not trying to oversimplify do yo
Hehe
if so, the core is like coffee in a cup when you are driving in your car
The thing about things is that they ain't simple
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