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Breakthrough Achieved in Explaining Why Tectonic Plates Move the Way They Do
Scripps Institution of Oceanography ^
| July 15, 2010
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Posted on 07/16/2010 7:42:12 AM PDT by decimon
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:42:14 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:42:53 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
The extension of unemployment benefits is sure to accelerate the movement of the plates to the same degree to which it has accelerated job growth.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:46:04 AM PDT
by
hometoroost
(McCain is a Ron and Nancy Republican: Campaigns like Reagan, governs like Pelosi)
To: decimon
Well, it looks like my graduate school theory of billions of subterranean hampsters has gone by the board.
To: decimon
Thanks for posting. Now I’ll have to find more to read on this.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:51:52 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: decimon
THEORY.....
Just like Global warming
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:51:55 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
To: decimon
“I jus’ keep movin’ from place to place”
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:53:17 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
("No longer can we make no mistake for too long". Barack d****it 0bama, 2009, 2010, 2011.)
To: decimon
I would think that it is fairly obvious.
The whole planet is growing in size. Has been for billions of years.
That ‘growth’ causes earthquakes as well. If you get on GOOGLE EARTH and look at the DEEP OCEAN RIDGES, you can see the ‘growth lines’ on the seafloor.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:54:40 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: decimon
Growing in size?
You mean like Popcorn?
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:58:03 AM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
To: decimon
Sounds like an overcomplicated explanation of the plates moving due to the convection within the earth.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:58:10 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Sacajaweau
tested hypotheses and theories are two different things. Just FYI.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:58:28 AM PDT
by
morkfork
(Candygram for Mongo)
To: Sacajaweau
Yes it is theory, but very well supported theory, unlike global warming. All non-experimental geology is theory based on circumstantial evidence. The evidence is heavily in favor of plate tectonic theory.
Are you a geosynclinalist?
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posted on
07/16/2010 8:00:57 AM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(In the White House the mighty White House the Liar sleeps tonight.............)
To: UCANSEE2
There are matching subduction regions where the crust in pushed down (or goes down naturally and pulls the rest of the plate along) which eliminates sections of the earth's surface.
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posted on
07/16/2010 8:01:27 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
To: Sacajaweau
THEORY.....
Just like Gravity
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posted on
07/16/2010 8:08:38 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: HerrBlucher
Theory and hard science are too often confused.
Interestingly enough, it was the son of Charles Darwin who came up with the “theory” that the moon was moving away form the earth an why.
He was wrong about why and how but today we know for a fact that the moon is moving away from the earth.
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posted on
07/16/2010 8:09:00 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: HerrBlucher
Are you a geosynclinalist?Dude! You can't just ask someone that on a public forum.
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posted on
07/16/2010 8:11:09 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
To: agere_contra
Are you a geosynclinalist?
That's the sort of thing you say right before you absquatulate.
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posted on
07/16/2010 8:18:33 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: centurion316
Well, it looks like my graduate school theory of billions of subterranean hampsters has gone by the board.Well, it's not like that dissertation will see the light of day. I mean, someone signed off on it.
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posted on
07/16/2010 8:23:33 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
I think that I was able to impress the committee in other ways. Steven Schneider thought that it made sense.
To: centurion316
Steven Schneider thought that it made sense. But he thought you had to offer up a scarier scenario and replaced the hamsters with clowns?
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posted on
07/16/2010 8:31:21 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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