Posted on 06/19/2021 5:28:30 PM PDT by blueplum
If you'd been able to stare at Earth from space during the late Cretaceous, when Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops roamed, it would've looked like the whole planet had tipped over on its side.
According to a new study, Earth tilted by 12 degrees about 84 million years ago....
The researchers found that, between 86 and 79 million years ago, the crust and mantle had rotated around Earth's outer core and back again — causing the entire planet to tilt and then right itself like a roly-poly toy....
...Prior to the late Cretaceous, the Pacific Plate — the largest tectonic plate on Earth spanning 40 million square miles under the Pacific Ocean — was sinking under another plate to its north. Around 84 million years ago....
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Interesting article, and thanks for posting it.
However, the hyperbole in mainstream science articles is tiresome. Starting with our 23 degree tilt, adding 12 degrees, then back again is significant, but it’s not at all Earth tilting “on it’s side” or going back and forth “like a roly poly toy”.
Yes - but what about Guam?
Not only is it cool getting credits in your creative writing class, but your science department can possibly get grant money to study your creative theory further.
Wasn’t some congressman concerned about Guam tipping over?
here’s a two-fer - about the time the earth was wobbling back to ‘upright’, 2 asteroids hit - one in Mexico credited with wiping out the dinosaurs, one in Ukraine credited with global warming.
But was it the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs or global axis shift - possibly messing with animals’ tendency to orient north?
Guam.
From wikipedia:
The Uranian axis of rotation is approximately parallel with the plane of the Solar System, with an axial tilt of 97.77° (as defined by prograde rotation). This gives it seasonal changes completely unlike those of the other planets. Near the solstice, one pole faces the Sun continuously and the other faces away. Only a narrow strip around the equator experiences a rapid day–night cycle, but with the Sun low over the horizon. At the other side of Uranus’s orbit the orientation of the poles towards the Sun is reversed. Each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.
What new tax can they come up with to prevent this from happening?
Whew! Just in time!
This is a really interesting post !
It started with Guam tipping over when too many dinosaurs ran to one side of the island. (Hank Johnson science)
It righted itself.
Who’s to say what’s right?
Oh for crying out loud, who comes up with this stuff? Which is easier to believe, that the world is so old that no one really knows it’s true age, or that God created it just 6,000 years ago? I mean, come on!
No kidding. My 10th grade English class had better written stories than this, and the teacher would have sent this nonsense back for clarity editing.
There it is, been saying this for years now...
This is actually huge news.
I just hope Stacy Abrams doesn’t travel overseas
Yeh...right....My Thought on the matter: Grant Money is Forever.
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