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originally posted by: khnum
a reply to: StoogeRemoval
But the dingle of the dangle is proportionate to the size of the rise of the direction of the erection equals 4/6 of wheres your father and it has always been so,so you I and the inuit are apparently wrong.
originally posted by: StoogeRemoval
Going by my own observations it looks to me like the sun is setting further towards the north than it used to. re yellowish.
originally posted by: khnum
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originally posted by: khnum
such an event just occurred for a poster on the Berenstein bear thread
originally posted by: glend
I think what the Inuit elders are saying is that the sun is in wrong place in sky for the seasonal changes they now experiencing so from their understanding they see it as a planetary shift because they not using a calendar to work out the correct position of the sun in the sky. So rather than attack their lack of science one should question the weather patterns themselves, is winter starting earlier etc to work out if they are right or not.
originally posted by: DelMarvel
originally posted by: StoogeRemoval
Going by my own observations it looks to me like the sun is setting further towards the north than it used to. re yellowish.
You do know the sun starts setting further and further towards the north after December?
The sun, for example, is constantly setting in a different place and taking a different path through the sky on a daily basis. It is very easy to become confused about when you saw it where and fill in conclusions that aren't true. For example, one could say that the sun was casting a shadow on a certain spot last fall but not this fall. But they could be remembering something they saw in early September in a previous year and comparing it to something they're seeing now in late October.
Just in case some reading the thread are not sure (and no, I'm not calling anyone's education into question.
originally posted by: StoogeRemoval
a reply to: eriktheawful
Just in case some reading the thread are not sure (and no, I'm not calling anyone's education into question.
Are you then suggesting that people can not remember what things looked like over the span of one year?
originally posted by: StoogeRemoval
originally posted by: DelMarvel
originally posted by: StoogeRemoval
Going by my own observations it looks to me like the sun is setting further towards the north than it used to. re yellowish.
You do know the sun starts setting further and further towards the north after December?
Please do not insult my intelligence. I am obviously not talking about seasonal changes that happen every year.
Imagine a shift in the Earth so profound that it could force our entire planet to spin on its side after a few million years, tilting it so far that Alaska would sit at the equator. Princeton scientists have now provided the first compelling evidence that this kind of major shift may have happened in our world’s distant past
originally posted by: AthlonSavage
Imagine a shift in the Earth so profound that it could force our entire planet to spin on its side after a few million years, tilting it so far that Alaska would sit at the equator. Princeton scientists have now provided the first compelling evidence that this kind of major shift may have happened in our world’s distant past
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Maloof said that true polar wander was most likely to occur when the Earth’s landmasses were fused together to form a single supercontinent, something that has happened at least twice in the distant past. But he said we should not worry about the planet going through a major shift again any time soon.
“If a true polar wander event has occurred in our planet’s history, it’s likely been when the continents formed a single mass on one side of the Earth,” he said. “We don’t expect there to be another event in the foreseeable future, though. The Earth’s surface is pretty well balanced today.”
MALOOF: That's right. About 800 million years ago, we were actually looking at sedimentary rocks in Svalbard and Australia, two - today - opposite sides of the Earth, where we saw evidence that Earth seemed to have a shift in the poles relative to the continents on the order of 40 to 50 degrees.
And what was particularly bizarre about this shift is that it was a there-and-back-again motion. It seemed to rotate one way, and then rotate back.
LICHTMAN: And where did it rotate? Give us a sense. I mean, I know that the continents didn't look like they do now. But where would we be?
(LAUGHTER)
MALOOF: Yeah, well, if you were to imagine - so today, Earth's shape is not quite right to undergo this kind of true polar wander. But for the sake of a thought experiment, if it were, what you could imagine is if you were far away from the true polar wander axis, you'd essentially change 50 degrees in latitude. So, like, you open the show, you'd say Boston would end up on the equator.
If, on the other hand, you were very close to the true polar wander axis - in other words, the axis around which all this rotation is going on - you'd end up just spinning around. So if that was - if, for example, you were in, say, the - I don't know, somewhere in the tropics, say, the Bahamas, and this happened, you would literally - your shoreline would just rotate around 50 degrees. You might be facing north instead of east.
LICHTMAN: How fast did this happen?
MALOOF: Well, our time constraints are not very good, but based on what we can say, we're guessing somewhere between 10 and 20 million years.
LICHTMAN: How much is that a day?
MALOOF: Yeah. Per day, on the order of, say, 50 centimeters. So, for a geologist, this is extremely fast, believe it or not. Right?
(LAUGHTER)
MALOOF: And, you know, when we talk about plate tectonics, we talk about the fastest plates moving on the order of five centimeters today. So it's almost an order of magnitude faster, which is a big deal for geologists.