I know, I know some people want to truly believe that this is Gaia

getting angry at us.

Ok here is the current world



Here is Pangea



How do you think it got from Pangea to the modern day map?

THe earth has quakes... it has and it will as long as we have a somewhat liquid magma under us. We are on a fairly thin crust riding on it.

;-)

and I know a few peeps who'd go... continental.... drift? WTF?

A geology professor I knew had that on his car some years back.

... non science aware person...

What you want to do with them furiegners?

Of course that would be…uh…all of us.

I had one woman come up to me in a restaurant to tell me it was a very bad idea. (I had to explain to her that I was a geologist wearing a fun shirt)

Unfortunately most people would stop me to ask what the hell I was protesting. I would tell them that we needed to stop the earth's crust from moving so as to stop earthquakes and volcanoes. For the half that believed me (yes there were that many) I continued with a story about how we just needed to sink telephone poles around the shorelines of the country to 'nail' us to the earth surface. Most at that point realized I was screwing with them...Unfortunately, there were still a few that believed me even after I tried to explain I was joking.

I like that.

I should have gotten myself a T-SHirt like that when we were doing the PLANNING for the inevitable quake (in geologic time)

I should stop laughing but I can't

You simply need to decide if wood telephone poles are enough or if we need to use those larger metal ones. :evilgrin:


edit: Remember your audience - the wooden ones might catch fire being buried so close to Hell. :smoke:

In the grand scheme of things, this would be considered a fairly minor event, had it not been for the presence of humans to be affected by it.

eight feet... but in geologic times, standard... the Pacific just got a tad smaller in a region of it...

Who will surely try to work God's wrath into this.

:-)

:crazy:

DUZY

I don't think simple emotions have to be in play for the Earth to be showing some kind of reaction to...time. That is all it is folks, time and space.

by geologic time. I guess the Dinos were viruses too, and Gaia just got a BIG ROCK to wipe them out...

:-)

Hey, who says Gaia doesn't have friends in 'high' places! :hi:

:-)

:)

Annie Lennox - Don't let it bring you down (American Beauty).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23aYZf18i-c

Can't say I know much about geology.

cooling down ever so slowly.

Hot magma rises, cools and then sinks developing convection currents that the continental plates ride on like a conveyor belt. So the whole thing is driven by heat and the subsequent cooling of magma.

I think we can call it the intelligent trampoline theory..

with all the beings that have ever been on it by God, and quakes are just God's punishment for not accepting his glory.

Do I get a cookie?

can "control" it. :eyes:

WE'RE nothing in the big scheme of things, IMO. The earth and its changes are magnificent, and I stand in awe.

I pray to Gaia. She's hot!



Wait, no, I mean, she's hot.

When science can be funny.

I am just thinking Monday hubby has biology class and they were covering them pesky dang plates.

Ok this is a pretty good here is what happens when a plate goes.

that if we were actually Pangea we would have either killed each other off or we would have world peace. One or the other because I can't imagine the teabaggers having to worry about ALL of those unsecure borders!

Hey a place to send them baggers to go Galt on us.

:hi:

the earth gods are angry gods

:hide:

:-)

arrangement.
I think Gaia is maturing through an intellectual evolution and this is expressed in the art of moving plates and continents.
Notice the simplicity of Pangea and compare it with the modern day plate arrangement. So much more complex...and beautiful!
I wish I would be around for Gaia's post-modern expression.

By millions and millions of years of inactivity....... then......BOOM!!!! CRACKKKKK!

It all cracks apart. Who really knows?

Until quite recently, scientists who suggested the continents were mobile rather than static were ridiculed by the rest of the scientific community; the most notable example of this is Alfred Wegener, the founder of the theory of continental drift.

When he presented his theory of continental drift to better explain these structures in 1912, not only was his theory almost universally criticized and dismissed, but he lost much of this previous acclaim, damaging his reputation until long after his death.


100 years ago the "experts" predicted Kratatoa would be extinct for thousands more years

They were proved wrong in 1883 and there are NO scientific studies of earthquake prediction, so we just have to watch and learn

from fantasy of a multiverse has made it's way onto physics. Trust me, the physics version makes most fantasy writers flights of fancy look almost normal.

Oh and string theory is really WEIRD... quantum theory, oh boy.

Waiting for the next math mind...


it's our destiny

that make actual religion look rational at times?

That is the beauty of it actually.

I am still smiling at some of them posts... we need to stop continental drift, yep, let's nail them down!

I know some rubes that actually would not get the joke though.