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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.
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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.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Humor; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science
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She's gonna blow!
C'mon, folks. Time to lighten up a little.
To: Viking2002
I wonder if this is the antipode to Java (location of most of the world's deep earthquakes)
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:03:13 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Viking2002
Because the center is gaseous and the poles are magnetic?
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:03:40 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Viking2002
Mother is big, it makes sense she’d have a slow pulse.
To: SunkenCiv
Pseudo-Science ping
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:05:07 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Viking2002
I dunno either, but I wish they’d cut it out. it’s keeping me up all night.
To: Viking2002
Maybe it is the Earth’s heartbeat.
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:09:17 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: Viking2002
It says, "Keep away, they be crazy here".
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:09:35 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: Viking2002
So THAT’s why I can’t sleep.
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:10:45 PM PST
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: BenLurkin
To: Viking2002
I blame that guy over there.
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:12:31 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Henry Cavendish
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:14:19 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin; All
Forgot to check that it’s an excerpt. Full article at the link with more info.
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:14:19 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
To: Viking2002
The treasure hunt suggestion is the most entertaining.
To: Viking2002
Me too at fifteen anytime I saw a bare dainty ankle or cleavage ....
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:16:11 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
To: Viking2002
60 years ago the Earth asked if it could go to its room, with a Sears Catalog.
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:18:15 PM PST
by
fwdude
(Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
To: Viking2002
One of my life’s loves got her PhD at Lamont Dogherty
BS Skidmore.....at 18
M.A. Cornell
She was blonde and smart
Talked funny...Jamaican
God love her
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:19:04 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
To: Viking2002
“For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky”?
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:21:20 PM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: Viking2002
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:23:01 PM PST
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: wardaddy
Oh, that’s so sad. By the time I was fifteen I was going for the full monte, and got it. *chuckle*
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posted on
11/04/2020 11:30:05 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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