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Your prejudicial dismissal hardly saves people time, what if there's something there for them? Then you cost time. It's not for you to judge for others. Your inability to extract utility from this is more about you than about the work itself. If you're open minded you wouldn't impose you biases on others and pretend it's truth. No need be scared of other people making up their own minds and thinking for themselves hm…
I also wasted my time having a look. GP's description "Erich von Daniken-type crackpot history" seems accurate enough to me. Also not sure how on earth it's relevant to this thread in any way. I've heard that "open minded" talk before, from New Age people who believe every crazy thing they read. You say "It's not for you to judge for others" yet the comment I'm replying to does little else.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your prejudicial dismissal hardly saves people time, what if there's something there for them? Then you cost time. It's not for you to judge for others. Your inability to extract utility from this is more about you than about the work itself. If you're open minded you wouldn't impose you biases on others and pretend it's truth. No need be scared of other people making up their own minds and thinking for themselves hm…
I also wasted my time having a look. GP's description "Erich von Daniken-type crackpot history" seems accurate enough to me. Also not sure how on earth it's relevant to this thread in any way. I've heard that "open minded" talk before, from New Age people who believe every crazy thing they read. You say "It's not for you to judge for others" yet the comment I'm replying to does little else.
I get if you were confused and misinterpreted what I said as judging for others. The distinction is I'm not telling people how they should take it, I'm saying make up your own mind, and don't discourage others from doing the same, nor try to shame them for reaching conclusion different to you. If it still doesn't make sense let me be even more clear. If either of you had just said oh I think it's s** blah blah blah blah this is my opinion, I won't care but when you try to pretend that anyone reaching a different conclusion must be crazy or wrong, and should not read it and not think for themselves, then I push back against that.
I guess you didn't read enough of it to see the obvious connection with this thread. This thread is about a magnetic pole reversal on the Earth and that story is about the effects of a magnetic pole reversal on Earth.
You're clearly sharp but I think it's a mind that's wasted when you limit the scope of your own inquiry by prejudicing yourself and holding contempt above inquiry. Whatever conclusion you reach about this work that can be the only conclusion about your choice here for how you try to pretend that anyone who disagrees with your holy truth must be wrong or crazy.
I feel sad for you to have to hear all this but I didn't push first. I'm just pushing back against what you said... so maybe next time before you open your mouth with something trying to be mean telling other people what to do you'll think a little more first. And that would be better for you and your karma I think. You're free to disagree (with being cool that other people think for themselves) of course, just remember all your choices have consequences.
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#23How did they use those kauri trees to figure out when the flip happened? The article mentions radiocarbon dating and counting tree rings but those seem like 2 different ways to date the event, not what they actually looked for in the tree to signify the event. Also, TIL about kauri trees.
There are kauri trees of different ages, and the thickness of the rings varies with weather, so they can line them up and stitch together series from lots of trees to get all the way to the present. (Don't need kauri trees for the most recent stuff.) Also, you can check the carbon ratio in a particular ring. That gives you a sample of the air from that year. Because, you know, trees are very, very literally made out…
There are other ways to get annual carbon samples, e.g. peat bogs, but they are subject to various kinds of corruption, such as roots, and disturbance, so it's harder to establish the ironclad evidence you get easily from tree rings.
Dating events by tree reings is called dendrochronology. The priciple use for this tree's evidence is dendroclimatology, and maybe dendrogeomagnetology.
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#24This is not too dangerous as long as the phase transition is not instantaneous. A one year weakening period is more than enough for man made intervention. We have ways of making an artificial magnetosphere (see literature by NASA's James Green). Models have been calculated for Mars. It is not cheap but doable. A nuclear reactor+superconductor satellite in orbit. Borderline exotic by commercial standards but relativel…
I don't think we have a solution to shield from all incoming radiation. I think you underestimate the scale. A partially redacted story talking about some effects of this is in the CIA FOIA vault https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp79b00752a000... Interestingly it's called the Adam and Eve story
Relevant passage begins on page 20 (labeled page 13): https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A0003000...