May want to read this story from Science@NASA regarding the Earth's "mean North Pole" being shifted by about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) and decreased the length of the day by 2.68 microseconds since the Dec 26 earthquake.
Scary man can compute these things, let alone nature being able to cause them!
Yea, pretty scary all the way around. Maybe the whole bit about 'the end is near' isn't so far off! Kinda freaky when you look at all of the natural disasters going on these days. Not just the occurences of them but the force of them.
Note that the findings for the Dec. 26th quake are the results of a model, and have not been experimentally confirmed, according to the article. Nonethless, I have no doubt that reality looks something like the model results. It is humbling indeed.
We live on a planet that we regard as "static" because our short lives do not enable us to see what a dynamic place it really is. Continents join and divide, oceans are created and oceans are consumed. Very little of the currently-exposed crust is "original", most of it having been "recycled" through subduction over the past 4 billion years.
And some people think man is the cause of global warming. Really! One volcano can cause more pollution/CO2 that man can in many decades. So who knows what a earth giggle means. Maybe California will be an island and Colorado will have an ocean.
And some people think man is the cause of global warming. Really! One volcano can cause more pollution/CO2 that man can in many decades. So who knows what a earth giggle means. Maybe California will be an island and Colorado will have an ocean.
Whereas volcanoes do produce a lot of pollution they do not produce that much CO2 compared to man. The CO2 level is on the rise and it is a direct result of burning fossil fuels. Volcanoes emit a little less then 10% of the CO2 then humanity does.
As George Carlin put it, the earth could shake us off like fleas and start all over.
If anyone thinks that WE will destroy this world, that's some big ego, we only destroy it for OURSELVES. the earth has renewed itself (most likely) thousands of times. Ice Ages, Meteor impacts, 100 year global dust clouds, volcanos, massive earthquakes, whatever killed off the dinosaurs, etc. Always came back. Whatever we do, it will renew...we may not.
And some people think man is the cause of global warming. Really! One volcano can cause more pollution/CO2 that man can in many decades. So who knows what a earth giggle means. Maybe California will be an island and Colorado will have an ocean.
All right!! I own three houses in Colorado Springs!! Beach front property would be great! I miss living in Virginia Beach!
take pride in Earth's power. we are not in charge.
if we emit too much CO2 - it will let us know.
if we are too ignorant to recognize the fact it's our own fault.
i imagine the dec 26 disaster will trigger other major 'earth shaking' events...
Now do you feel man is doing more harm thn nature??? Global warming is NOT something caused by humans, it has been going on naturally for oh, lets just say a REALLY long time.
Not much we can do to stop it with current technologies, even if humans stopped using all fossil fules and "green house gasses" this would still happen naturally, maybe mankind could slow i down by 10 to 20 years, but its going to happen.
Just enjoy it while you can, we only have until the year 2029 or something like that before life as we know it today will change for the worse
May want to read this story from Science@NASA regarding the Earth's "mean North Pole" being shifted by about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) and decreased the length of the day by 2.68 microseconds since the Dec 26 earthquake.
Scary man can compute these things, let alone nature being able to cause them!
Has Santa's address changed? If not, I'm not too worried.
And some people think man is the cause of global warming. Really! One volcano can cause more pollution/CO2 that man can in many decades. So who knows what a earth giggle means. Maybe California will be an island and Colorado will have an ocean.
All right!! I own three houses in Colorado Springs!! Beach front property would be great! I miss living in Virginia Beach!
JD
If you can find it, you should read Allan Danzig's The Great Nebraska Sea, from the Aug. 1963 issue of Galaxy.
And here's a song lyric (I've hever heard the song though) inspired by it.
Yea, pretty scary all the way around. Maybe the whole bit about 'the end is near' isn't so far off! Kinda freaky when you look at all of the natural disasters going on these days. Not just the occurences of them but the force of them.
What is the Aztecs or Mayans predicted - August 2012?
Not the whole world will end, but about 75% of the population will cease to exist, so the world as we know it will cease to exist.
If you can grow food and live without fossil fuels, you'll be fine.
As long as i have running water, toilet paper and electricity, i'll be fine.
May want to read this story from Science@NASA regarding the Earth's "mean North Pole" being shifted by about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) and decreased the length of the day by 2.68 microseconds since the Dec 26 earthquake.
Scary man can compute these things, let alone nature being able to cause them!
Was the decrease on the working day or on the off day? ;-)
This is not the first time that the axis have received a shift. You must keep in mind that this planetary system is hurling through space while at the same time the planets and the sun maintain a rotation and there is a phenomena known as wobble which causes slight variations.
the current axial shift is what yields the season changes we experience in many parts. There have been great upheavels since the inception and there will be more. Keep in mind that all ancient upheavels were at times that mankind was not pumping oil from the ground and that there was an absence of industry. Like I said elsewhere, the earth is not settled and it was not place here as a paradise for us to take care. Consider, the truth is that we survive despite the onslaught of nature.
There were great storms and hurricanes in days of old and these continue. There were earthquakes that changed the physical position of what was and there will be more to come but rest assured that it happens without our intervention. Mankind is not in charge of creation.
