With our luck in 2020, it just might be Cthulhu's heartbeat.
Indeed. When I saw the headline, my first thought was: it's 2020, so it's probably Earth itself about to rip apart into pieces come December.
The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
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Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#32Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#33Thanks to the article editor who did not do the common "The Earth is pulsating every 26 seconds and NOBODY KNOWS WHY."
It's still quite clickbate-y I'd say...
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#34Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#35That's CPU cycles in the computer built to discover the the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.
Rather slow clock rate in our perception, but not that bad if you're computing for millions of years.
Worth one year of compute on a mediocre PC if my math doesn't fail me. Not that much for such a task.
We tend to forget how fast modern computers are.
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#36Could it be an underwater geysir? 26 seconds is right in the period length for a geysir. Maybe due to the higher pressure due to greater depth it has more of an "explosion" characteristic than traditional geysirs so that it causes a seismic event?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For popular culture to lack any references to it whatsoever As the first paragraph of the article has mentioned, at least xkcd has a reference [0]. [0] https://xkcd.com/2344/
That's interesting, assuming the location in the comic is correct. It is very close to 0 degrees latitude, 0 degrees longitude. Many people who have built or used GIS applications are familiar with "Null Island." It should probably have been called "Bug Island." If you have bugs in your GIS code, this is where they tend to lurk.
>>" It is very close to 0 degrees latitude, 0 degrees longitude."
The 0 latitude could be relevant, but that the 0 longitude is in there is more an historical accident.
The shape of the African continent is also interesting there.
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#38Haha. Pulses.
Pulse is a sign of life.
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For popular culture to lack any references to it whatsoever As the first paragraph of the article has mentioned, at least xkcd has a reference [0]. [0] https://xkcd.com/2344/
Is there really any subject on which there is no xkcd? They are the Simpsons of web cartoons.
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Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#40Why haven’t I heard about this before? This seems too important a detail for my school textbooks to have left out and for popular culture to lack any references to it whatsoever. What am I missing?
You're missing more XKCD in your life! https://xkcd.com/2344/
These moments when I find myself digging into a very specific point on a pretty specific topic and someone posts a XKCD link and I think to myself - there is just no way this will be about this exact thing.. Sure enough.
Thanks for the link. I needed a good belly laugh this morning.