Post by WalksInSpirit on Aug 27, 2005 21:02:43 GMT -5
Earth Changes Chat: 08-27-05
"Earth News"
(08:07:45) (Host-Nick) It has been a week of scaterring energies everywhere, almost an Open Chat, but there are a few Earth news items. Earth News night.
(08:08:55) (Host-Nick) Next Saturday is the New Moon.
(08:09:04) (WalksInSpirit) Sounds good, Nick! Say, are you keeping up with Katrina?
(08:09:50) (Host-Nick) Yes, and it looked like it was going to go north all the time, but it keeps going west and getting bigger all the time.
(08:10:16) (patricia) hello everyone
(08:10:50) (Host-Nick) If Katrina ends up in Texas it could be like Galveston in...1895?
(08:11:41) (WalksInSpirit) Or like Camile in 1969, Nick.
(08:12:14) (Host-Nick) I do not remember the year, but Galveston was wiped out and boats ended up 20 miles inland in Houston. Of course there were no satellites then.
(08:12:26) (WalksInSpirit) Wow
(08:13:00) (Host-Nick) This was somewhere around 1899, no airplanes to fly into storms either.
(08:13:43) (Host-Nick) Katrina keeps getting bigger as she moves west. It does not seem like she is going to go north at all.
(08:13:51) (WalksInSpirit) Those guys have guts! Those hurricane guys that fly into them.
(08:14:48) (WalksInSpirit) Dennis fooled them, Nick. At the last minute, he jogged north.
(08:15:10) (WalksInSpirit) I think they are trying to anticipate this kind of motion.
(08:15:18) (patricia) so, this looks as if it is going to be a mega hurricane Nick?
(08:15:43) (WalksInSpirit) Strong 4, possibly 5 by landfall was what I heard last.
(08:15:59) (patricia) w
(08:16:04) (Host-Nick) An article in Science magazine confirms that the Earth's core is rotating faster than the crust, or at least than the outer core.
(08:16:10) (patricia) WOW!
(08:16:14) (Roz) my daughter in Tampa said today they were just getting intermittent showers
(08:16:36) (patricia) Nick, what does that mean?
(08:16:58) (Host-Nick) I think this Katrina which barely was a hurricane as it crossed Florida is feeding on the hot waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
(08:17:34) (WalksInSpirit) Yep. Water temps are 87 degrees in the Gulf.
(08:17:54) (WalksInSpirit) And no upper air shears to knock off the thunderstorm tops.
(08:17:58) (Roz) how about the earth quake in Nc?
(08:19:13) (Host-Nick) Was not anything to be concerned about or North Carolina. However a cause for concern for the New Madrid area. This is because earthuqakes have been happening all around the region of the area which had those tremendous earthquakes back in 1811-1812
(08:20:52) (Host-Nick) There have now been earthquakes on every side of this fault system for a while now and neither the New Madrid system, nor the English Hills system have budged at all.
(08:21:28) (Host-Nick) The findings settle a scientific controversy that has raged for nine years, since Paul Richards, of Columbia University in New York, and Xiaodong Song, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, first detected the core's odd behaviour.
(08:21:54) (Host-Nick) That is that the inner core of the Earth rotates faster than the outer core and the mantle.
(08:22:17) (Cris) Are you talking about the earths core spinning faster than the outside?
(08:23:02) (Host-Nick) Currents in the planet's core create a vast dynamo that generates the planet's magnetic field. Without this, the surface would be exposed to radioactive cosmic rays and plasma from solar flares that would make the existence of complex life all but impossible. In the new study, details of which were published in the journal Science yesterday, a team led by Professor Song and Professor Richards made use of earthquakes in the South Sandwich Islands, in
(08:23:33) (patricia) Do they have any idea what is causing this or what effect it will have?
(08:24:39) (Host-Nick) Unknown, speculation may be that it is the outer layers that are progressively slowed by friction which cannot keep up with the inner core.
(08:25:55) (Host-Nick) Two earthquakes, in 1993 and 2003, occurred no more than 800m apart and generated precisely the same patterns of peaks and troughs on seismographs thousands of kilometres away in Alaska.
(08:26:45) (Host-Nick) The seismic waves from the 2003 earthquake, which passed through the Earth's core, arrived at the monitoring station in Alaska about a tenth of a second more quickly than the seismic waves in 1993.
(08:29:38) (Host-Nick) The consider that only a core spinning faster than the rest can explain this. It is thought to do with the outer core generating a field which induces a current in the inner core thus speeding up its motion.
(08:30:18) (Host-Nick) So, my idea is incorrect, the idea that it comes from spin. Maybe I'll ask the geologists when I go for an interview in a couple fo weeks. :o)
(08:32:18) (Host-Nick) This so-called "superrotation" of the inner core is of the order of 0.3 degrees to 0.5 degrees each year. This means that in 900 years, the inner core would gain one full rotation on the rest of the planet.
(08:33:20) (Host-Nick) It does make more sense that the shells of the Earth do not exactly tag along with each other. What do you think?
(08:33:22) (Lory) In language I can understand, Nick. What does that mean for earth?
(08:36:13) (Host-Nick) Professors Richards and Song had suggested this faster rotation of the Earth in 1996, but its was ignored by the theoreticians of the time :o)
(08:37:26) (Host-Nick) Spinning as fast as the Earth wil let us.
(08:37:46) (Host-Nick) Currents in the planet's core create a vast dynamo that generates the planet's magnetic field. Without this, the surface would be exposed to radioactive cosmic rays and plasma from solar flares that would make the existence of complex life all but impossible. In the new study, details of which were published in the journal Science yesterday, a team led by Professor Song and Professor Richards made use of earthquakes in the South Sandwich Islands in t
(08:38:08) (Host-Nick) That was the principle data from the article.
(08:39:09) (ernie) and when the fild colapses to change polarity it just depends on
(08:39:14) (Host-Nick) The Moon's orbit is so complex that it is thought that it is expanding ever so slowly, but that it wil reverse in milions of years and come closer again.
(08:39:25) (ernie) how long it takes to build back up
(08:39:25) (ernie) is key
(08:39:57) (ernie) when gravity gets weaker
(08:39:57) (ernie) yes
(08:40:27) (ernie) then the black hole effect i is inavetible
(08:41:01) (Host-Nick) While the core is poorly understood - the great physicist Richard Feynman said we know more about the centre of the Sun than the centre of the Earth - it is critical to the make-up of the planet, and indeed to life on Earth.
(08:41:40) (ernie) yes the center of the earth core is not perfectly round
(08:41:54) (Host-Nick) He's the guy who pointed out to the Morton-Thiokol people the stupidity of having one single O-ring seal between the fuel for the Challenger and the air, after the Challenger blew up in 1986.
(08:42:03) (ernie) so it help in magnetic feild generation
(08:42:55) (Host-Nick) The mechanism is not understood, this is a likely cause of a curious effect which these two scientists have been working on for over ten years.
(08:42:58) (ernie) so it work buches of times before it was just a faulty or miss alined thing
(08:45:39) (Host-Nick) So far I have not been able to dig up more info on the sugested volcano which Prof. Hutton hypothesizes is present underneath the Bimini islands and accounts for the abundance of the rare earth elements and their peculiar proportions.
(08:46:22) (ernie) all volcanos are exhaust pipes
(08:46:22) (Host-Nick) In the soil samples that he took, the data is there for anyone to peruse. The Hutton Commentaries]
(08:47:15) (merlin) did u see nick where there was a quake in panama?
(08:48:08) (Host-Nick) Yes, south of Panama, that is an area of concern. The crust is weak there and the Mexican volcanos to the northwest are acting up.
(08:49:23) (Host-Nick) It was quite strong to. I just hope that not quake happens north of Cuba or Puerto Rico, since that would fulfil one of the Cayce predictions of the earthchanges.
(08:52:26) (Host-Nick) Except for the New Moon being next Saturday at 18:45 UTC, not much else has been happening.
(08:52:53) (Host-Nick) Volcanos are relatively quiet.
(08:52:58) (LoveInfinity) Not much happening did ya see the hurricane, lol
(08:53:09) (Host-Nick) Has anyone any questions or topics to suggest?
(08:53:57) (Host-Nick) Yup, that Katrina keeps growing in the hot waters of the Gulf. 86 degree water, that's a warm bath!
(08:54:10) (merlin) i came across an article on the internet where they have found dinosaus fissils in the antarctic.
(08:54:45) (Cris) They have wooly mamoths too Merlin
(08:55:17) (merlin) aye! siberia , with food still in their mouths
