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To: grundle

The real question: Is the sea level falling or are the tectonic plates being pushed upwards by 6 mm?


13 posted on 02/08/2012 1:47:03 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

"is the ground risin'?"

16 posted on 02/08/2012 1:49:56 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: RJS1950
Neither. It's a hidden alien base sitting at the bottom of the ocean consuming our water.

. . . and you all thought that Battle: Los Angeles was just a movie.

HAH! I say it again. HAH!
17 posted on 02/08/2012 1:51:58 PM PST by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)
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To: RJS1950

I’d certainly guess that Florida is sinking.


28 posted on 02/08/2012 2:12:56 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: RJS1950
The real question: Is the sea level falling or are the tectonic plates being pushed upwards by 6 mm?

Actually, that is not the real question. Indeed that question is meaningless.

Satellite based sea level measurements are made with RADAR altimeters or LASER altimeters. The satellite instruments measure distance between the satellite and the sea surface (which is far from level). The satellite is in a known orbit, at a known distance from Earth's center of mass ... difference gives "sea level". The real data processing is somewhat more complex than that, but that's the basic theory of it.

40 posted on 02/08/2012 3:13:59 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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