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Here's What'll Happen When Plate Tectonics Grinds to a Halt
National Geographic ^
| August 29, 2018
| Robin George Andrews
Posted on 10/29/2018 2:21:32 PM PDT by ETL
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To: WMarshal
Scientists will harness the awesome power of cow farts,
Ahhhh, maybe now we know why the Hindu's think that the cow is sacred
To: ETL
"That’s well before the sun is expected to swell into a red giant and consume us in its death throes roughly 5.4 billion years from now"
The sun also is heating up as it ages. In only half a billion years the earth will be outside the habitable zone, and the oceans will begin to evaporate away. We might want to think about moving to Mars then.
To: Tell It Right
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:51:33 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: ETL
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:52:24 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Telepathic Intruder
The sun also is heating up as it ages.
...
I think it’s around a 10 percent increase every billion years. And I think there is disagreement about when the Earth will become uninhabitable.
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:53:30 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: ETL
We’ll have the technology to use the Earth as a spaceship and live underground.
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:54:44 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Nah, I'd leave in there a little longer. But then again maybe you might think about rolling it over in survivalist stocks.
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:57:56 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: ETL
Your geothermal air conditioning system won’t work either.
Lot’s of folks going out of work.
Congress needs to act NOW!
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:57:58 PM PDT
by
fruser1
To: Moonman62
Yeah, big underground cities complete with hot babes in shiny silver miniskirts and purple hair.
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posted on
10/29/2018 2:59:13 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Moonman62
For those who don’t know, Keith Richards is a tardigrade.
Heh. I'm just wondering what is going to happen to that inner earth civilization Corey Goode talks about. Bummer for them.
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posted on
10/29/2018 3:02:57 PM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
To: Moonman62
The earth will leave the habitable zone in about half a billion years. There’s not much disagreement on that. But it may take as log as another half billion years for life to end. It depends on a lot of factors including unknowns such as the Gaia effect. In any case, humans certainly won’t be around anymore anyway. We will either be extinct or evolved into something completely unrecognizable.
To: ETL
Thorium 232, has a half-life of 14.05 billion years. The Sun will kill the Earth before it runs out of heat to run the plates. I imagine the descendants of Mankind will have long populated the galaxy by then as well as a whole bunch of other galaxies as well. Either that or die because of Islam or Socialism.
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posted on
10/29/2018 3:05:54 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: ETL
The study says 1.45 billion years ... Al Gore says 1.67 billion years. It seems like you just don’t know who to believe anymore.
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posted on
10/29/2018 3:07:09 PM PDT
by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: ontap
Lucky for me...I’ll be dead!!!!Not me. I stopped aging decades ago.
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10/29/2018 3:18:47 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: layman
The study says 1.45 billion years ... Al Gore says 1.67 billion years. It seems like you just don’t know who to believe anymore. Gore embarassed himself on a late night talk show some years ago when he stated that the Earth's core is "millions" of degrees. It's actually only about 10-11 thousand(F).
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10/29/2018 3:23:05 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: Moonman62
Wait, I thought we weren’t supposed to call em tards anymore?
To: ETL
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posted on
10/29/2018 3:32:04 PM PDT
by
Freee-dame
(Best election ever!)
To: Tell It Right
‘Yet another big ol’ honkin’ example of fine tuning by a Creator so advanced life can exist on Earth.’
uh yeah, okay...
To: Telepathic Intruder
You must read a different bible than I do. What proof do you offer for this?
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posted on
10/29/2018 4:45:38 PM PDT
by
oldtech
To: Psalm 73
One might try the hydro-plate theory about how it started and progressed. Walt Brown's.
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posted on
10/29/2018 4:59:49 PM PDT
by
cotton
(one way, one truth, the life.)
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