Posted on 10/29/2018 2:21:32 PM PDT by ETL
I will bet 400 quintrillion dollars ($4.00 in today’s money) they are wrong.
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ind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun. Its magnitude at the Earth’s surface ranges from 25 to 65 microteslas (0.25 to 0.65 gauss).[3]
Approximately, it is the field of a magnetic dipole currently tilted at an angle of about 11 degrees with respect to Earth’s rotational axis, as if there were a bar magnet placed at that angle at the center of the Earth.
The North geomagnetic pole, located near Greenland in the northern hemisphere, is actually the south pole of the Earth’s magnetic field, and the South geomagnetic pole is the north pole.
The magnetic field is generated by electric currents due to the motion of convection currents of molten iron in the Earth’s outer core driven by heat escaping from the core, a natural process called a geodynamo.
While the North and South magnetic poles are usually located near the geographic poles, they can wander widely over geological time scales, but sufficiently slowly for ordinary compasses to remain useful for navigation.
However, at irregular intervals averaging several hundred thousand years, the Earth’s field reverses and the North and South Magnetic Poles relatively abruptly switch places.
These reversals of the geomagnetic poles leave a record in rocks that are of value to paleomagnetists in calculating geomagnetic fields in the past. Such information in turn is helpful in studying the motions of continents and ocean floors in the process of plate tectonics.
The magnetosphere is the region above the ionosphere that is defined by the extent of the Earth’s magnetic field in space. It extends several tens of thousands of kilometers into space, protecting the Earth from the charged particles of the solar wind and cosmic rays that would otherwise strip away the upper atmosphere, including the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
We’re all gonna die ping.
From the article...
“Perhaps just before it does, Earth’s liquid core will cool enough to end convection, causing the planet’s protective magnetic field to fail. The sun’s stream of energetic particles will strip away our atmosphere, and its expansion will boil away the oceans.”
“Scientists will harness the awesome power of cow farts, the phenomena that led to global warming and extinction of all humans by drowning the world 1.4 billion years ago, to remelt the Earth’s core.”
We'll all be long dead before the earth runs out of radioactive elements to maintain a molten core.
Should I pull my money out of my 401k?
I think as long as the Earth spins on its axis and the moon orbits the Earth we will have plate tectonics.
The Earth spinning, and the moon orbiting deform the Earth’s mantle causing a tidal bulge, creating heat and movement.
Until the moon escapes Earth orbit or its orbit is so far from Earth that it no longer deforms the mantle we will have plate movement.
Another thing is we’ll no longer have heavy elements near the surface, which our bodies need (even trace amounts of gold is needed). We have access to these heavy elements because earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes stir them up from the bottom of the oceans and lower layers of the earth’s crust up to where tiny portions of them get consumed.
Yet another big ol’ honkin’ example of fine tuning by a Creator so advanced life can exist on Earth. If the long cycle for plate tectonics didn’t happen to be timed to have nice activity when other things in the Earth were timed right (i.e. stable orbit around the sun, stable rotation, stable burning phase of our sun) then advanced life wouldn’t have had a chance to exist at any point on earth.
And the atheist libs say the Christians are “anti-science”.
Lucky for me...I’ll be dead!!!!
All very interesting, but I’d say, if more than $1. of our tax money is going to these dreamers, cut the funding today.
There is no reason to study it further, and I doubt we’ll ever recover any benefit, or “bang for our buck”.
(Here’s why tardigrades may be the only life-forms that survive until the world’s end.)
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For those who don’t know, Keith Richards is a tardigrade.
“...Carbon cycle...”. I thought all the petroleum came from dinosaurs.
Thanks colorado tanker. My guess is, another kludge will be invented. :^)
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Well . . . yeah. That’s what makes it funny.
Women and children hurt biggly.
Oddly, they have no idea how the plates started to move in the first place.
... at the same time my property taxes are lost somewhere in the Los Angeles postal system!!!! Irritating!
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