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Happened to be in the car today listening to Doctor Karl on Triple J (my companion is significantly younger than me); anyway, Doctor Karl was off on one of his impressive tangents, and mentioned that the water that had melted from the poles, had - courtesy of centrifugal force - concentrated around the equator and (again courtesy of said force), began to tilt the earth off its axis.

Now that, my friends, is scary as all get out

Finally we have an explanation for Richmond winning three flags in four years. Thanks

 

[Snake_Baker]

Happened to be in the car today listening to Doctor Karl on Triple J (my companion is significantly younger than me); anyway, Doctor Karl was off on one of his impressive tangents, and mentioned that the water that had melted from the poles, had - courtesy of centrifugal force - concentrated around the equator and (again courtesy of said force), began to tilt the earth off its axis.

Now that, my friends, is scary as all get out

Karl is placating his ABC paymasters again & the data he utilises is 5 years old.


A Sharp Turn to the East

"Around the year 2000, Earth's spin axis took an abrupt turn toward the east and is now drifting almost twice as fast as before, at a rate of almost 7 inches (17 centimeters) a year. "It's no longer moving toward Hudson Bay, but instead toward the British Isles," said Adhikari. "That's a massive swing." Adhikari and Ivins set out to explain this unexpected change.

Scientists have suggested that the loss of mass from Greenland and Antarctica's rapidly melting ice sheet could be causing the eastward shift of the spin axis. The JPL scientists assessed this idea using observations from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, which provide a monthly record of changes in mass around Earth. Those changes are largely caused by movements of water through everyday processes such as accumulating snowpack and groundwater depletion. They calculated how much mass was involved in water cycling between Earth's land areas and its oceans from 2003 to 2015, and the extent to which the mass losses and gains pulled and pushed on the spin axis.

Adhikari and Ivins' calculations showed that the changes in Greenland alone do not generate the gigantic amount of energy needed to pull the spin axis as far as it has shifted. In the Southern Hemisphere, ice mass loss from West Antarctica is pulling, and ice mass gain in East Antarctica is pushing, Earth's spin axis in the same direction that Greenland is pulling it from the north, but the combined effect is still not enough to explain the speedup and new direction. Something east of Greenland has to be exerting an additional pull."

NASA Study Solves Two Mysteries About Wobbling Earth

New data on how water moves around Earth answer old questions about the planet's rotation.

www.nasa.gov

This is an elaborate cyclical process:

"..........During a cycle that averages about 40,000 years, the tilt of the axis varies between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees. Because this tilt changes, the seasons as we know them can become exaggerated. More tilt means more severe seasons—warmer summers and colder winters; less tilt means less severe seasons—cooler summers and milder winters. It's the cool summers that are thought to allow snow and ice to last from year-to-year in high latitudes, eventually building up into massive ice sheets."

Milutin Milankovitch - NASA Science

The Serbian astrophysicist Milutin Milankovitch is best known for developing one of the most significant theories relating Earth motions and long-term climate change. He dedicated his career to developing a mathematical theory of climate based on the seasonal and latitudinal variations of solar...

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Hypothesized by Milutin Milankovich many years ago:

Milutin Milankovitch - NASA Science

The Serbian astrophysicist Milutin Milankovitch is best known for developing one of the most significant theories relating Earth motions and long-term climate change. He dedicated his career to developing a mathematical theory of climate based on the seasonal and latitudinal variations of solar...

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

 

[Snake_Baker]

School principal makes boys apologize for............being born male. This is what happens when deluded morons are placed in positions of power.

Warrnambool school sorry for making boys stand in apology for 'behaviours of their gender'

The principal of a Warrnambool secondary school says asking male students to stand "as a symbolic gesture of apology for the behaviours of their gender" at assembly was inappropriate.

Key points:

• Warrnambool's Brauer College concedes events at an assembly addressing sexual assault and harassment were "inappropriate"
• Male students were asked to stand "as a symbolic gesture of apology for the behaviours of their gender"
• The school principal has apologised and parents are being directly contacted by the school

Brauer College principal Jane Boyle apologised after conceding a discussion about sexual assault and harassment at a school assembly took an inappropriate turn.

Ms Boyle said in a statement that during a discussion about sexual assault, harassment, and respect for women and girls, boys were asked to stand "as a symbolic gesture of apology for the behaviours of their gender that have hurt or offended girls and women".

The issue came to light after parents, unhappy with the way the assembly played out, aired their views on social media and contacted the school.

Some parents said their children had found the assembly confronting, while others backed the school's attempt to address the topics of sexual harassment and assault with students.

It is understood a second assembly was held to address some of the concerns raised after Wednesday's school gathering.

Warrnambool school apologises for handling of sexual assault topic at assembly

The principal says asking male students to stand "as a symbolic gesture of apology for the behaviours of their gender" was inappropriate.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Snake_Baker]

The vicious misandrist harpy who instigated this disgrace has not been sacked.



Do you want people like this influencing the development of your kids?

 

[Del191229]

 

[Flawed Genius]

I wonder how many European drug dealers are, probably for the first time in their lives, incredibly frustrated about the Suez Canal right now

 

[Snake_Baker]

I wonder how many European drug dealers are, probably for the first time in their lives, incredibly frustrated about the Suez Canal right now

Why?

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Royal Flush]

Collective guilt.
Are we living in the 1930s?

The vicious misandrist harpy who instigated this disgrace has not been sacked.

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Do you want people like this influencing the development of your kids?

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[Snake_Baker]

Collective guilt.
Are we living in the 1930s?

Don't you mean...............the 14th century?

The Victorian education system is awash with these disturbing extremists.

Do you want to know the real punch line to this? These people actually call themselves "progressives".

 

[DesertRoo]

I wonder how many European drug dealers are, probably for the first time in their lives, incredibly frustrated about the Suez Canal right now

Europe is about to go through an expensive bbq season.. pretty much all of Qatar’s Gas goes through it..

 

[Royal Flush]

Progressive is the new fascist

Don't you mean...............the 14th century?

The Victorian education system is awash with these disturbing extremists.

Do you want to know the real punch line to this? These people actually call themselves "progressives".

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[Val Keating]

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What’s that?

 

[Val Keating]

Why?

Because that’s the route banana’s take and most coke goes in through banana containers. Fruit shops accidentally get pallets of coke a instead of bananas fair bit.

 

[Snake_Baker]

What’s that?

Mossad - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Because that’s the route banana’s take and most coke goes in through banana containers. Fruit shops accidentally get pallets of coke a instead of bananas fair bit.

You learn something new every day.

 

[Val Keating]

 

[Snake_Baker]

Well, there you go. Market forces will always find a way around something.

 

[koshari]

Banana republic

 

[Flawed Genius]

Why?

Yeah Val covered it, but basically drugs transported via the shipping trade from places to Europe, being delayed due to the blockage of the Suez Canal, and having to take the much longer and more arduous Cape of Good Hope journey

 

[Val Keating]

I’d honestly shit myself if I accidentally got a pallet of coke instead of bananas. The Narcos wouldn’t be happy no matter what you did

 

[DesertRoo]

I’d honestly sh*t myself if I accidentally got a pallet of coke instead of bananas. The Narcos wouldn’t be happy no matter what you did

Ring up there banana company and say I got a heap of plain flour delivered instead of my usual bananas..

 

[Flawed Genius]

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[Snake_Baker]

I’d honestly sh*t myself if I accidentally got a pallet of coke instead of bananas. The Narcos wouldn’t be happy no matter what you did

Just get some cheap booze and drink the crap.

 

[Val Keating]

Ring up there banana company and say I got a heap of plain flour delivered instead of my usual bananas..

Honestly you could contact them directly and give it back and they’d probably wipe out your whole family in 15 years time just because

 

[DesertRoo]

Honestly you could contact them directly and give it back and they’d probably wipe out your whole family in 15 years time just because

Nah it’s still a business for them and that would bring unnecessary heat.
worse thing you could do is turn it into a commodity.
Because it realistically worth nothing to them as it’s farmed and it’s perceived value to you is miles apart what ever number you want to put on it.