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To: cripplecreek
Pole shifts happen and we’ll survive.

A few will, if you believe "When the Sky Fell" which postulates that Atlantis is Antarctica. It used to be in more temperate climes until the earth's crust slid some degrees and put it in the polar zone about 13,000 years ago.

If the place ever did exist, this is the most plausible theory so far, and maybe this wandering North Pole is an early warning.

65 posted on 06/02/2013 5:24:50 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Oatka

The authors relied on an imaginary “crustal displacement” process, which is a way to have nice, quiet, uniform, predictable catastrophes. Thanks to the Earth’s surface being 70% water, it doesn’t work.


113 posted on 06/02/2013 5:46:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Oatka
I believe it in the possibility. Contemplating it used to scare the crap out of me, especially when I got to high school physics.

Pretend that the planet is a spinning ball in the frictionless vacuum of space, to which additional mass is continuously being added in a somewhat random distribution, and the surface mass of this spinning ball is constantly changing as water mass is being redistributed via weather patterns. (For example, consider how deep they had to dig to recover the P-38 Glacier Girl.)

At some point, this spinning ball/mass will change enough to overcome the gyroscopic inertia of its current equilibrium.

Perhaps there will be an increase in the wobble to forewarn, but whether gradually or suddenly, the spinning ball of mass will alter and its axis of rotation and equator will change to whatever the physics dictate.

Now that is a pole shift. Hang on tight!

157 posted on 06/02/2013 6:13:44 PM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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