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Giant, Now Sunken Islands Could Explain Ancient Migration in The Americas
Science Alert ^
| 21 MAY 2021
| DAVID NIELD
Posted on 05/25/2021 12:21:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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The study area is shown in the white rectangle. (Cornée et al., Earth-Science Reviews, 2021)
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:21:58 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
“...the rise and fall of the sea level, controlled by glacial melt....”
Why doesn’t Glacier Growth control the Ocean Levels?
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:23:49 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:24:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Pure speculation, nothing more. And they get paid for this?
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:25:00 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: BenLurkin
The emergence and disappearance of these archipelagos and "mega-islands" would also have been affected by the rise and fall of the sea level, controlled by glacial melt – something else the scientists modeled across a period of 1.5 million years.Dang, I had no idea that SUVs were around that long ago.
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:26:44 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
To: BenLurkin
And then Guam tipped over.
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:28:52 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: Fungi
You know I was just thinking about how science threads attract so many cranky and snarky replies, and ruminating on the various causes.
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:30:36 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Paladin2
“Why doesn’t Glacier Growth control the Ocean Levels?”
Put on your thinking cap!
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:34:53 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
(Z1z)
To: Fungi
“ something else the scientists modeled”
Science is now computer models…
Think climate change, covid deaths, etc
Just trust science.
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:44:15 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” )
To: TexasGator
That’s what Ma Erf may do very soon; put on her ice cap.
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:45:04 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
Have often thought this was the case flying through the islands and noting the apparent water depth going from PR to Guadeloupe and Martinique.
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posted on
05/25/2021 12:46:54 PM PDT
by
Regulator
(It's Fraud, Jim)
To: BenLurkin
You know I was just thinking about how science threads attract so many cranky and snarky replies, and ruminating on the various causes.Did you come up with an answer as to why?
To: BenLurkin
Did they sink because of climate change? /sarc
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posted on
05/25/2021 1:18:56 PM PDT
by
Renkluaf
To: BenLurkin
Migrated too many people and they tipped over.
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posted on
05/25/2021 1:19:32 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(,)
To: BenLurkin
I’ve got a sinking feeling about this.
I can’t breathe.
My investments in the Lesser Antilles are underwater.
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posted on
05/25/2021 1:21:36 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(,)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Modeling in the abstract is fine. In fact, it;s a valuable tool in the scientific method. But, until more recently (the last 20-years or so),
refutability was a welcomed, necessary element of modeling; scientists build a model on available data points and when hard data comes in, the results can be measured against the modeled outcomes either refuting or validating the model's premise.
Today, if you attempt to measure a model's scientific merit, you're labeled a 'conspiracy theorists.' Or - and more commonly - the prognostic time frame of the model is so distant in the future, refuting or validating the model becomes impossible and instead, the model must be accepted as a matter of faith. In this regard, science has become a kind of religion that has coopted sciencey vernacular.
A favorite axiom of professors of statistics is: All models are wrong, but some can be useful. But, we're not even allow to question models today much less assert their accuracy or impugn their utilitarian value.
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posted on
05/25/2021 1:27:12 PM PDT
by
ScubaDiver
(Reddit refugee.)
To: BenLurkin
“Greater” and “Lesser” Antilles? What kind of social justice is that?
To: BenLurkin
Col. Churchward may have been right all along with his storied MU...
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posted on
05/25/2021 1:36:36 PM PDT
by
abigkahuna
(How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
To: BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks BenLurkin, nice twofer.
[snip] This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent. [/snip] -- Plato, "Timaeus"
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posted on
05/25/2021 1:38:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks BenLurkin, nice twofer.
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posted on
05/25/2021 1:39:40 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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