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Earth Keeps Pulsating Every 26 Seconds. No One Knows Why.
Popular Mechanics ^ | 10/30/2020 | CAROLINE DELBERT

Posted on 11/04/2020 10:57:01 PM PST by Viking2002

Why is Earth pulsating every 26 seconds, and why can’t scientists explain it after 60 years? This is an enigma wrapped in a periodically predictable mystery motion. It could be a harmonic phenomenon, a regular seismic chirp caused by the sun’s energy, or a beacon drawing scientists to its source to begin a treasure hunt.

➡ The world is weird. We'll show you how it works.

In the early 1960s, a geologist named Jack Oliver first documented the pulse, also known as a "microseism," according to Discover. Oliver, who worked at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory at the time, heard the noise, but didn't have the advanced instruments seismologists have now at his disposal.

Since then, scientists have spent a lot of time listening to the pulse and even finding out where it comes from: “a part of the Gulf of Guinea called the Bight of Bonny,” Discover says.


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To: SunkenCiv

I saw The Pulsating Zits on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert on tee vee back in the day but they were a passing fad in adolescence.


81 posted on 11/05/2020 11:06:00 AM PST by a fool in paradise (President Trump is not VP Nixon and wonÂ’t let the Democrats steal this without a fight)
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To: SunkenCiv

:o])


82 posted on 11/05/2020 11:24:56 AM PST by Monkey Face (When you cast your bread upon the waters, don't be surprised if it comes back toasted and buttered.)
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To: Viking2002
Hmmm. Maybe it's the alien base under Denver International Airport?

What are you doing, Zardoz?

I'm setting up this gong to clang every 26 seconds. It'll drive 'em crazy up there!

83 posted on 11/05/2020 12:03:25 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Viking2002

Gas pains!


84 posted on 11/05/2020 2:56:35 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( FAUX News = Antifa/BLM smooth talkers in suits taking part in the end of America via Insurrection!)
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To: Grampa Dave

It’s the ptomaine burritos at all those Chipotle franchises causing it.


85 posted on 11/05/2020 4:26:38 PM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Viking2002

It’s the ptomaine burritos at all those Chipotle franchises causing it.


86 posted on 11/05/2020 4:39:37 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( FAUX News = Antifa/BLM smooth talkers in suits taking part in the end of America via Insurrection!)
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To: BenLurkin

Those pulses were every 17 cycles, as in the 17th letter of the alphabet, ....


87 posted on 11/05/2020 7:16:35 PM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: blam

FYI, I worked at a plant manufacturing nails.

The thick, hardened wire came from the steel mill on a coil, similar to a spool of thread.

With heat and lube, the wire was straightened, head and point formed.

Heat and pressure will do amazing things!


88 posted on 11/06/2020 6:56:16 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Steven Tyler
"FYI, I worked at a plant manufacturing nails."

I had a career in chip-making beginning in 1967. Some of my handiwork is on the Voyager Space Craft that has completely left our solar system.(And...will still be travelling long after I'm gone)

89 posted on 11/06/2020 7:08:49 AM PST by blam
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(from link in #70)

[snip] Oliver figured out that the pulse was coming from somewhere “in the southern or equatorial Atlantic Ocean” and that it was stronger in the Northern Hemisphere’s summer months (or, the Southern Hemisphere’s winter). [/snip]

https://freerepublic.com/tag/southatlanticanomaly/index

https://freerepublic.com/tag/potsdamgravitypotato/index


90 posted on 12/13/2021 8:30:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: blam

Yeah, until that Klingon captain blasts it to smithereens!...................


91 posted on 12/13/2021 8:34:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Oliver_(scientist)


92 posted on 01/01/2022 8:47:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Potsdam Gravity Potato keyword, sorted:

93 posted on 01/17/2022 8:45:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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