Posted on 10/18/2021 8:17:35 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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I don’t know, but it’s tilting pretty bad right now.
About 4 billion years ago a large object smashed into the Earth and it’s debris, not being able to escape Earth gravity formed the Moon.
Maybe this is what caused the tilt.
If you measure the polarity in the bed rock on the Atlantic Ocean, you will see “polarity” shift on a fairly regular basis.
Now crust displacement is another story. Reading the original book about that, the sudden displacement of the crust would literally be like riding the crest of a wave of earth, several miles high, moving at 300 miles an hour.
That is not a ride I would like to take.
LOL...great point! Little did they know!
Aw c’mon man!
It would be like a E Ticket roller-coaster, with the possibility of dying!
Come on you old fogey! I’ll show you a few new [crustal] wrinkles!
I read that when I was 25 (many years ago) and I remember thinking it would be a cool way to “go out.”
Now it just seems “dramatic.” Just drop a rock on my head and be done with it.
And from wat I understand it is a significant amount too
The money quote: “...a plan for settling the debate once and for all.”
Now, if we have learned nothing else, we should all be aware that NOTHING IS EVER SETTLED.
They might have some more data! They might have additional facts. But it would be more correct for them to say something like - “Based on our work we now believe [whatever].”
BTW - that section where they said something about some facts that also indirectly proved an asteroid had extinctified the dinosaurs: their ideas of “proof” come nowhere near the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard.
LOL
Just what first came to mind.
LOL
Just what first came to mind.
LOL!
Any sign that this 85 million year old event was damaging to the animal life of that time?
They probably all banged their heads when they fell over.
The axis of rotation for a planet changes up to 15 degrees in a 50-100 year period. Our magnetic poles today aren’t where they were 10 years ago. This is normal.
The biggest effect to life is exposure to cosmic radiation. The poles are giant funnels. Exposure to solar and cosmic radiation is much higher at the poles than anywhere else, because the atmosphere is thinner and dips in like a funnel, hence the aurorae.
If the poles were to dip down around the tropics, equator, or even flip, the areas where the magnetic orientation is null will experience high levels of radiation. Humans would do best to stay indoors if that happens anywhere near them.
Charles Hapgood had this right....some great books.
Well, some fell off when it tipped over..................
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