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
#52Thanks to the article editor who did not do the common "The Earth is pulsating every 26 seconds and NOBODY KNOWS WHY."
> Thanks to the article editor who did not do the common "The Earth is SLAMMED by a pulse every 26 seconds and NOBODY KNOWS WHY."
FTFY
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#53Can't help but evoke images in my mind of some mad scientist trying to recreate Tesla's Telegeodynamics. The concept of transferring power via seismic waves always fascinated me as a kid.
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#54Nobody's yet mentioned that there's another of these 26 second pulses with a source near Australia and New Zealand [1]. Pretty mysterious!
http://ciei.colorado.edu/pubs/2006/3.pdf
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#55With all these "scientists don't know why" articles, I always picture some scientist somewhere slacking off on HN and going "Is that..? shoot, my bad guys - didn't mean to do that"
Like Tesla with his earthquake machine
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#56With our luck in 2020, it just might be Cthulhu's heartbeat.
I remember reading about this years ago, and someone mentioned the location does coincide with one of the creatures in the Cthulhu mythos, but not Cthulhu itself. Don't remember which one, though.
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#57Funnily enough, it's also close to the 0,0 GPS coordinates https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/0°00'00.0"N+0°00'00.0"E
0°00'00.0"N+0°00'00.0"E
Funny how it's N+E, not S+W
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#58Is probably an hibernating Godzilla heartbeat.
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#59That'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.
What's the minimum billable time unit if I want to run some serverless functions from your cloud service if the cycles are measured by the millions of years?
Re: The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why haven’t I heard about this before? It's probably just part of the "Earth's hum", which is waves. (Don't confuse this with the world wide paranormal hum people claim to hear) You probably should have learned of the hum at school, if you did, you'd have probably forgotten. As a 10 year old you'd either find it amazing and think of it forever or just forget. It would be interesting to rank it on the importance lev…
Huh, I feel like that’s something I’d remember learning. Did many other people here learn that?
First of me hearing about this.