Methuselah

Preparing for the next age of Earth | Husband. Engineer. Anxious father. Bad swimmer.

[Methuselah @EcdoPrep]

Quick geodesy discussion w data through June 3: https://t.co/AYCg6FoYBS

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@Vincent_Ledvina Seems awfully fast- I am a touch skeptical it comes that soon.

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Polar motion charts with data thru Jun 3 at 10-day, 3-month, and 4-year timescales. Foreground objects (soccer ball, Adelie penguin, pickup) are scaled to the path to show size. The earth (not to scale) background is for orientation, including LLSVPs and select meridians. Daily velocity is color coded per the legend at right.

A primer video on how to read these charts is here: https://t.co/2U7rzS9PjH

IERS long-term data, ~week delayed:
https://t.co/ULjTj4MxBQ

IERS 3-month data, ~day delayed:
https://t.co/B4DfDMMS2R

[Methuselah @EcdoPrep]

This article is intended to copy-paste as a context to inform your AI conversations with Grok, Claude, etc. regarding the physics of geodynamo shearing associated with an ECDO event: https://t.co/zFKEk4NdXN

The following updates have been made since its first release
- added a very brief overview of ECDO theory and select points of evidence.
- Incorporated most of this article as the logic flows more smoothly: https://t.co/pP6QOV6Vmp
- added westward drift of non-dipole magnetic field components leading to the 360 year periodicity observed in many excursions.
- corrected magnetic diffusivity skin depth calculations and added outer core stable stratification literature references. Thanks again to @mattadleta for the finding.

@EthicalSkeptic @zachariaspro @HashZappa @nobulart

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@HashZappa @nobulart @SterlingCooley Maybe one day I will be cool enough and influential enough to get my own community note. Feelin' a little bit left out over here.

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

My article on Loosh vs. Faith is available at this link.

I contend that in absence of understanding loosh, faith itself cannot be fully grasped.

And without faith, it is impossible to achieve spiritual growth.

If one craves harming others, amassing excessive assets, theft, vengeance, and humiliation of your neighbor - then you have found your home here, and in this hellish realm you will remain.

https://t.co/5cyvKGA9kD

[Methuselah @EcdoPrep]

I know being a theist in this space is not easy. But a couple thoughts: The flood account is already a challenge in its own right. Seems very unmerciful to kill everybody. But there is DNA evidence that most of mankind, specifically men, were killed by something ~5ka ago. The secular interpretation is new migratory patterns and/or an increase in inter-tribal warfare with the advent of agriculture. Specifically, your neighbor never had enough food stored up to make it worth risking your life to steal their food, until agriculture introduced months worth of food at harvest time. So men started raiding villages and killing each other.

Most people in this catastrophe space make a different claim: the 5ka culling was the flood alone.

I have a view somewhere in the middle. If there was ever a merciful time to "salt all the world's farmland", it is when man was killing man to steal their harvests. We had to revert to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a time. God's 'permission' to Noah to eat meat in Genesis 9:3 may hint at that.

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@Simmulator117 @SterlingCooley The more-or-less canonical paper on the theory: https://t.co/FmY4dJp7Up

A page demonstrating evidence for it: https://t.co/KPIiOZAYLn

My personal article detailing the mechanism: https://t.co/D4flGwXQCT

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I take much of the Bible "seriously and respectfully", which does not always mean literally. I view the creation account as a mystical narrative on the "why", I am uncertain it was intended to convey the how.

I take the flood account literally, for geophysical reasons apart from the Bible.

The conquest of Canaan I don't take literally and wish to not take literally. The cities were not there at the timeline required of the Exodus, but the later Biblical authors didn't know that. It would be like someone today saying there was a great battle in Chicago around 1300 AD, not knowing the city didn't exist until later.

I don't have many specific objections to the New Testament, but like most of the Bible I am comfortable with the idea that some stories were inflated. Why do I take it seriously then? In contrast to the crusades when people were forced to choose between life and faith, with those two on opposite sides of the scale, the disciples had to go against both. Life and their Judaic heritage were on one side of the scale and they had to go against both- that tells me they saw something.

[Methuselah @EcdoPrep]

I appreciate the rant, most people don't recognize the influence of oral tradition on the Bible. Things were mostly oral until the Babylonian exile, and the Jews felt need to write it all down lest they forget it.

I agree there is scant evidence to take the Exodus literally. Ironically, these are the same parts of the Bible we should "wish" to be false- the genocide of Canaan and all.

I thought similarly of the flood account until recently- that it was just a local flood near Ararat. But I now take it essentially literally. I discuss it a bit in this article: https://t.co/rDicF6atc5

I take the New Testament mostly but not strictly literally, for reasons that would take me some time to explain. Cheers.

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@HopefulIdiot @BostonBiceps_ @SterlingCooley Yes wind can erode, but notice in particular the curve around Emi Koussi. This very neatly matches fluid dynamic simulations of the proposed reorientation: https://t.co/nXiQb3smPx

[Junho @junhoBTC]

ECDOsim v15 Africa and Europe view.

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@BostonBiceps_ @SterlingCooley Skepticism is healthy. Here is a map with select points of evidence for the skeptical. https://t.co/KPIiOZAYLn

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@BostonBiceps_ @SterlingCooley We are only talking about an even that lasted a few centuries. And you can see the lines from the waters washing over the Sahara yourself.

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The initial hit (tsunamis) likely caused the flow lines that are pretty apparent over NE Africa. As the already warm Mediterranean waters splashed over the hot Sahara sand, it would lead to a gargantuan evaporative event. As that vapor started to condense, it would rain for weeks to months: the 40 day figure sounds about right.

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@TommGal @SterlingCooley Some select points of evidence: https://t.co/KPIiOZAYLn

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@EmpMagiPhul @SterlingCooley An event lasting a few centuries, roughly every ~6k years, does seem to be about the right cadence. See the below paleomagnetic study from China - notice the two short reorientations at 5ka and 14ka.

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The thesis here is not about anything on geologic timescales. Specifically, it is about ~360 year 'inversions' due to a reorientation of the north pole (rotational and magnetic). The below paleomagnetic chart from a study in China shows the brief duration of these events- a few hundred years each: one ~5ka ago, another ~14ka ago.

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@4gottn_History One of the most ancient sites on earth. Sounds like a good place to plant trees.

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I disagree with him about the duration, but a similar phenomenon would hold for ~360 years vs 1200. To be more specific, the 360 year figure is based in part on the width of the excursions you can see in the paleomagnetic chart below (Source: R. X. Zhu, R. S. Coe, X. X. Zhao, Journal of Geophysical Research).

Most structures would not show the strong wave action erosion due to being fully inundated- not as high as the pyramids. But you can literally see the sweeping lines from the initial inundation throughout NW Africa.

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@nobulart @HashZappa @one_indeed Ah- thanks Craig.