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Wild New Paper Suggests Earth's Tectonic Activity Has an Unseen Source
sciencealert.com ^ | 26 JANUARY 2022 | DAVID NIELD

Posted on 01/27/2022 12:39:07 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: 43north

Insurance cos have known for a long time that there are more automobile crashes when there’s a full moon.


21 posted on 01/27/2022 1:12:23 PM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: BenLurkin

We’ve had it now.

Coming soon from the Left: Tectonic Plate movement is being enhanced by oil and gas drilling and the movement must be controlled, or it will destroy the planet!


22 posted on 01/27/2022 1:12:46 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
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To: BenLurkin

Interesting.

It makes me wonder whether Mars once had a moon big enough to have kept it alive.

Now “all we have to do” is find a suitable body to put in the right orbit and wait.

Mars is much smaller and would likely need a smaller moon....you think Hillary has gotten big enough?


23 posted on 01/27/2022 1:14:14 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: 43north

“ Having practiced medicine for over 45 years I know how crazy people get around the time of the Full Moon. ”

Years ago, a friend’s GF was a nurse in a nursing home. The residents had no idea what the moon phase was. She said when the moon was full you could hardly keep folks in their own rooms. I believe there is something to what you say.


24 posted on 01/27/2022 1:17:35 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: BenLurkin

Reading this, I’d swear someone stole my HS physics paper on the topic.

Woulda, shoulda, coulda...old news from my chair.


25 posted on 01/27/2022 1:21:31 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: BenLurkin
I always thought of the Earth as a huge hydrolic torque converter.

The rotation of Earth and the molten core and the tectonic plates as vanes to capture the energy.

Such torque converters generate heat due to friction of the liquid in contact to the vanes to exchange the energy.

26 posted on 01/27/2022 1:24:30 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: BenLurkin

Turtles


27 posted on 01/27/2022 1:24:54 PM PST by Chaguito
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To: BenLurkin
I think the Germans are behind the motion of the Teutonic plates.

Ohhh, you said tectonic. Never mind.

28 posted on 01/27/2022 1:27:08 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I stand behind Alec Baldwin. It is far too dangerous to stand in front of him.)
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To: BenLurkin
Not that wackadoodle. Heating caused by tidal friction of Jupiter's moon Io allows it to have cryovulcanism.

"...[T]here is general agreement that the cause of the heat as manifested in Io's many volcanoes is tidal heating from the pull of gravity from Jupiter and its moon Europa...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_heating_of_Io

29 posted on 01/27/2022 1:42:18 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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30 posted on 01/27/2022 2:05:49 PM PST by CtBigPat (The time of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Geologist Jim Berkland was well-known for trying to predict earthquakes based on tides (as well as on increases in missing-pet notices in the newspaper).


31 posted on 01/27/2022 2:09:20 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: BenLurkin

Stacy Abrams walking the Earth?


32 posted on 01/27/2022 2:09:34 PM PST by Zathras
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To: BenLurkin

Uncle Scrooge discovered this back in the 50s.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Land_Beneath_the_Ground!

33 posted on 01/27/2022 2:14:20 PM PST by abb
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To: 43north

Of course this is true. Hard to believe it is being discussed as if it were some new discovery.

In the past many people perceived the earth to be flat because day-to-day experiences made it feel flat.

Today we tend to think of the earth as solid other than the oceans and rivers and lakes. But it’s much more like a liquid then we would typically think.

Even skyscrapers have to bend and sway or they will break. We can see during earthquakes how the ground shifts in almost a liquid fashion.

Just as the moon causes ocean tides so the rise and fall of the crust of the earth is in accordance with its position relative to the sun and moon.


34 posted on 01/27/2022 2:23:46 PM PST by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

This is not some new wild theory at all. The moon’s gravitational pull has long been known to be a factor on tides, and pulling and pushing on plates.


Shhsh! They just made this starling discovery, and its their 15 minutes of fame - so don’t rain on their retarded parade.


35 posted on 01/27/2022 2:39:17 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

In proportion to the size of the Earth, our moon is the biggest in the Solar System (1/6th the mass).

We are almost a double planet.


36 posted on 01/27/2022 3:02:56 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: Wuli

“I imagine the full truth is a combination of forces.”

Absolutely, We look for only one cause of things, when in reality it is a concert of several sources and variables. We rule them out one at a time without ever considering the possibilities of a combination.


37 posted on 01/27/2022 3:32:38 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: rfp1234

“missing-pet notices in the newspaper”

That one I confirmed multiple times. People I knew in CA confirmed their pets scratching at doors and windows in the days leading up to earthquakes.


38 posted on 01/27/2022 4:03:06 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: BenLurkin

Giant Earth Worms.


39 posted on 01/27/2022 4:06:12 PM PST by jetson (chiwowa)
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To: Billthedrill

—”I’m a proponent of the Subterranean Rock Giants theory myself.”

And overlooking the Terries and Fermies?

“Terries cause earthquakes by rolling in massive groups of thousands against the giant pillars that support the land on the surface of the Earth, while Fermies cause earthquakes by gathering together in massive numbers and lifting up pieces of the Earth’s crust. They treat this as a sports competition: Whichever group causes the biggest earthquake (as revealed by intercepted radio transmissions) wins the contest and gets the prize, a piece of Ancient Greek pottery that fell down a crevice in Ancient Roman times in the year zero “

https://t.ly/KuI6


40 posted on 01/27/2022 4:11:51 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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