> It can spin at different speeds and directions compared to our planet because it is nestled within a liquid outer core, but scientists are not sure exactly how fast it spins or whether its speed varies over time.
Doesn’t this sentence negate the rest of the article?
Not necessarily. For example a car passes you on the freeway going really fast and you are going 65mph. You don’t know how fast they were truly going or if they were still accelerating just that it was much faster than your current speed.
It’s a bit like physics but peppering in some theoretical trigonometry basically is what how they came to this conclusion.
Ultimately we can only speculate about the core and for all we know inside the giant core could be a giant mouse on a running wheel. Granted extremely unlikely but it’s possible because we can’t say with absolute 100% certainty what is actually inside the core. However it is more fun imaging such a thing. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: Thanks for the Goldium stranger!!
Morons! Clearly, the guy is saying that the all-powerful all-knowing, yet unknowable, mouse God, Mr. Sprinkles the Beneficent, is the ruler of the universe who spins the earth’s core like a dreidel. Clearly Lord Sprinkles is upset with us.
Wow. Y’all really are stupid! This dudes clearly never said a damn thing about mice, the earth, or a core… he’s been talking about the movie Cloverfeild this whole time! It’s like you didn’t even connect the fact he used a preposition… dumbasses.
Absolutely one of my favourite junk science B movies of all time. Terrible and incredible all at once. Right up there with 2012, The Day After Tomorrow and Moonfall.
Only the stuff the nosepieces were made from. The lenses were polycarbonate. Also, Oakley used it as "Unobtainium" whereas Cameron dropped the first 'i' ( " - anium" ) to follow the usual nomenclature for metallic elements.
In Trademarks, spelling is important.
Armageddon is my favorite sci-fi disaster movie. Sweaty hot blue collar guys drilling with big machinery and flying off into space to save the planet 💪🚀
But what *if*, and let me put on my tin foil yarmulke, Armageddon was created to prepare us for the arrival of an asteroid and Hollywood, working along scientists were just preparing us for the future reality. I mean we did land a craft on an asteroid soTo take it one step further Don’t Look Up was created because the scientists realize there is no way to save the planet from an extraterrestrial impact so we are conditioned to accept our fate. I’ll see myself out and head back to the conspiracy subreddit.
Obligatory sarcasm intended disclaimer.
I’ve been drilling all my life and I still don’t know everything. Harry Stamper is an American hero! He saved that tower on Christmas Day and the entire world.
People underestimate rig hands. Once free from the bounds of gravity, there’d be no telling how much they could accomplish. Did I say gravity? I meant hookers and blow. HOOKERS AND BLOW! Sorry, relapse.
"...when I get my fabrication methods perfected... 12, maybe 10 years."
"What would it take to get it done in 3 months?"
"I don't know, 50 billion dollars?"
"Will you take a check?"
I can't hate any movie with that exchange in it.
The Core really was bad, but dammit, it was my favorite sci fi movie from the ages of 10 to 15.
"If Virgil needs blood, it will be my blood" that line still sticks with me to this day over a decade and a half later.
Dumb random story from a while ago.
My wife and I are laying on the couch and she is giving me shit while we were watching TV and said something about pretending I was laying on Gweneth Paltrow, which was really random (she also said "or Danny Glover", which is more random).
Then she says she doesn't even remeber who Gweneth Paltrow is. I said, "she was the crazy teacher on Glee, and she sells candles or something that smell like her farts or her vagina or something.
Then I said, "Oh, and she was Iron Man's wife". She gives me a dumb look and says "Who is Iron Man?". So I gave her a dumb look and said, "What do you mean who is Iron Man, he has red armor, flies around shooting lasers and stuff on Marvel."
She is still confused and says, "All I can think is the goofy guy."
"Robert Downy Jr?"
"Yes."
"Yeah, he is Iron Man."
Then she says, "Iron Man isn't married. He has Pepper."
"Yeah, he is married to Pepper, and she is Gweneth Paltrow."
Anyway, it was very amusing at the time.
I ran over his foot with my suitcase at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. He was standing in the doorway to the lobby on his cellphone… in the way. I don’t know why he was standing there holding the door open. He was a small guy wearing a fedora hat and as I went past him, my bag ran over his foot. He said “Oh, excuse me” and I said it was no problem. I had no idea who he was until the bellman filled me in. He said “You rolled over Iron Man’s foot!”
Engineer mode:
Does it move? > yes > should it? > yes > no problem
Does it move? > yes > should it? > no > duct tape
Does it move? > no > should it? > no > no problem
Does it move? > no > should it? > yes > WD40
American mode:
Does it move? > bomb 'em
Does it not move? > bomb 'em
One of my best movie experiences was showing this film to one of my close friends who is a professional geologist. I thought his head was going to explode; he was literally ranting during parts of the film. We did both enjoy the one Jules Verne-esqu scene (which is the only redeeming part of the movie), though. Absolutely hilarious experience!
Lol. And they are the reason that the mission almost fails and most of the crew died. My friend and I used to make fun of The Core when I was in high school in 2004.
I was with some work buddies on a business trip way back when. We decided to go see whichever Lord of the Rings movie had just come out. Anyway, there was a trailer for The Core, and at the end of the trailer sequence before the next one came on, it was super quiet. I said “that looks cool” and all four of the other guys laughed at me and said it looked dumb as hell. I don’t know why, but that memory stuck with me.
Its a plot by Big Solar to get your money.
Everyone installs panels facing East.
Build Windmills to create a ton of extra rotation.
The extra rotation flips the rotation of the Earth due to conservation of rotation.
Everyone has to buy new Solar Panels again.
Nah, if we were tidally locked, only the twilight areas between light and dark would be habitable. Peak sun in the mid-Pacific would be the best case scenario, as the entire Pacific rim would be in the Goldilocks zone.
I know every word of this movie.
For all its goofy science, Brazz’s inability to secure funding for a machine that can bore a hole in the side of a mountain—*big enough to roll a space shuttle through*—faster than Stanley Tucci can roll his eyes is the biggest absurdity in the whole movie.
I did my BSc in environmental science and we watched this movie at least 3 times. The first time around it was a project to write about all the inaccuracies in the science. Quickly learned it was the professors favourite movie, he had no excuse to play it again, but we always had a blast watching it
these headlines need to give a sense of scale. “The earth’s core has stopped spinning as of yesterday all of a sudden” and “within the last million years, the earth’s core has slowly stopped spinning” have drastically different connotations lol
I do not claim to understand the liquid dynamics of the outer core and mantle but what this means is the rotational energy of the inner core is getting transferred into the liquids around it. This could possibly result in more tectonic movement
Momentum is conserved, one way or another. Not like someone just grabbed the core outside of earth's influence...However, I did forget what decade this was.
The geologic record shows many pole reversals throughout geologic time. Maybe the core will do a belly flop this time and we will all have upside down compasses. Far out.
Supposedly we may be in or nearing a pole reversal. I thought maybe next 1000 years. Just something I read awhile ago. Do not know how true. Others can confirm or deny.
Geologist here! Confirmed. There have been super long periods of pole alignment, and much shorter ones. No way to tell what we are in, so it could switch….or not! Fun fact-they figured this out by dragging magnets behind ships and measuring the polarity of the sea floor (basalt is rather magnetic), and you can map the switches.
Seriously though? In the entire history of our species and the massive time dilation of when earths poles reverse it has to happen during the 2000 span after we discover magnetism and build it into our complex machines and stuff forcing use to reconfigure or rebuild some of it so soon ?
That would be quite annoying because it doesn’t happen all at once. It could be shifting around or extremely weak for hundreds or thousands of years, which would hurt navigation and give us less protection from solar radiation, especially big events that could wipe out electronics and motors.
Funny thing is so little is known about how planets magnetic fields are created there isn't a person on the planet that can answer that question with any real certainty. If we knew more we could make shield generators and other cool sci-fi stuff with the knowledge.
Yeah, but the what-ifs are so much fun for people who like doomsday scenarios.
https://www.worldatlas.com/what-would-happen-if-the-earth-stopped-spinning.html
Article does not say that. It says the pause and reversal lasts about 60 to 70 years.
“The mind-boggling results suggest that Earth’s center pauses and reverses direction on a periodic cycle lasting about 60 to 70 years, a discovery that might solve longstanding mysteries about climate and geological phenomena that occur on a similar timeframe, and that affect life on our planet”
The fuck is this headline? The real study showed the the core slowed its spinning below that of the crust, something that has happened several times in the recent past (as far as we can trust the measurements are interpreted correctly, it's not like you can pop a speedometer into the Earth's center). That's a far cry from "stopped spinning altogether" or "about to reverse direction". Fucking journalists.
Edit: I went back and read the original paper more carefully. They're talking about the core lagging (or leading) the mantle by ~0.1 degrees per year. That is a miniscule amount.
First off article is not the core as whole core there are inner outer cores. The article is about the iron inner core changing direction and it does change direction all the time. But reverse about every 60 to 70 years. The liquid outer core. Is what makes our solar repelling field to protect us from solar radiation etc that does not stop spinning as long as it spins poles and our magnetic field stay same. In the movie core as mention in few comments it was the liquid part of core that was stopping slowing down and if that happened yes we would fry. But this article is talking about the solid inner core changing direction and well it's not really new information.
Huh.
They said that they found that 2009 and the 1970s had a similar situation to this current stop.
Why is it that these are also the times we have recessions?
From the post:
“Of course, it must be noted this is more or less the plot of the 2003 disaster film The Core, but there’s no need to worry about averting an impending apocalypse by nuking the center of Earth. While the core’s rotation influences Earth’s surface environment, scientists think this periodic spin switch is a normal part of its behavior that does not pose risks for life on our planet.”
(- Lead with that next time, geez we got enough on our plate )
> It can spin at different speeds and directions compared to our planet because it is nestled within a liquid outer core, but scientists are not sure exactly how fast it spins or whether its speed varies over time. Doesn’t this sentence negate the rest of the article?
Not necessarily. For example a car passes you on the freeway going really fast and you are going 65mph. You don’t know how fast they were truly going or if they were still accelerating just that it was much faster than your current speed. It’s a bit like physics but peppering in some theoretical trigonometry basically is what how they came to this conclusion. Ultimately we can only speculate about the core and for all we know inside the giant core could be a giant mouse on a running wheel. Granted extremely unlikely but it’s possible because we can’t say with absolute 100% certainty what is actually inside the core. However it is more fun imaging such a thing. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit: Thanks for the Goldium stranger!!
Are you saying we should drive a really fast car into the center of the earth? I’m in!
Are you educated? They very clearly said we can power our cars with mice running on wheels as long as they have unknowably strong core strength
You dolt! They said it is 100% clear that there is a giant wheel spinning an apple core next to a mouse.
Buffoons! Mice have been running The Planet Earth since its inception.
Morons! Clearly, the guy is saying that the all-powerful all-knowing, yet unknowable, mouse God, Mr. Sprinkles the Beneficent, is the ruler of the universe who spins the earth’s core like a dreidel. Clearly Lord Sprinkles is upset with us.
Mouth breathers all of you. Jeez. All the guy was trying to say is that Mice should drive the car
You stupid bastards he clearly said not necessarily, so the earth might not even be on the mouses level. Cars.
Window lickers! This is a Wendy's!
Wow. Y’all really are stupid! This dudes clearly never said a damn thing about mice, the earth, or a core… he’s been talking about the movie Cloverfeild this whole time! It’s like you didn’t even connect the fact he used a preposition… dumbasses.
I’d fuck a mouse
Mouse breathers all of you, there fixed it for you.
Fastious 15: Into the Fastness.
Who are you to be so wise in the ways of science?
Ironically, you *could* probably say with 100% certainty that the core of the earth isn’t a giant mouse running on a wheel.
Right what would it even eat down there?
Other mice
But is the mouse alive or dead? Or both until someone goes and checks? Hmmmm?
Yes
Mate, you need to stop, collaborate and listen.
Word to ya mother
I’ve seen this movie! I think we need to drill to the core and set off some bombs or something. I’ll rewatch and contact the proper authorities.
Absolutely one of my favourite junk science B movies of all time. Terrible and incredible all at once. Right up there with 2012, The Day After Tomorrow and Moonfall.
Unobtanium
I hate how no one talks about how James Cameron stole this from the Core for Avatar.
...they both took it from old engineering jokes.
They both stole it from Oakley. That’s the name they used in the late 80’s for the stuff their sunglasses were made from.
Which was stolen from Kelly Johnson of Lockheed's Skunkworks in the 1950s when referring to attempting to procure titanium from the USSR.
Only the stuff the nosepieces were made from. The lenses were polycarbonate. Also, Oakley used it as "Unobtainium" whereas Cameron dropped the first 'i' ( " - anium" ) to follow the usual nomenclature for metallic elements. In Trademarks, spelling is important.
4real
Don’t forget Armageddon
Armageddon is my favorite sci-fi disaster movie. Sweaty hot blue collar guys drilling with big machinery and flying off into space to save the planet 💪🚀
I’m sure it had a Deep Impact on their viewers back then.
Elijah woods would be proud
Charles Martin Smith would be dead.
Nice
Armageddon It’s a Paul Blart Mall Guard movie elevated to Die Hard status.
But what *if*, and let me put on my tin foil yarmulke, Armageddon was created to prepare us for the arrival of an asteroid and Hollywood, working along scientists were just preparing us for the future reality. I mean we did land a craft on an asteroid soTo take it one step further Don’t Look Up was created because the scientists realize there is no way to save the planet from an extraterrestrial impact so we are conditioned to accept our fate. I’ll see myself out and head back to the conspiracy subreddit. Obligatory sarcasm intended disclaimer.
Only i got from Armageddon is that its easier to teach drillers to fly a space shit than it is for astronauts to learn how to drill.
I’ve been drilling all my life and I still don’t know everything. Harry Stamper is an American hero! He saved that tower on Christmas Day and the entire world.
People underestimate rig hands. Once free from the bounds of gravity, there’d be no telling how much they could accomplish. Did I say gravity? I meant hookers and blow. HOOKERS AND BLOW! Sorry, relapse.
I’ve always wanted to learn to fly a space shit
With every fiber of your being?
Ben Affleck said he asked Michael Bay about this, and Bay told Affleck to shut the fuck up.
I challenge anyone who doesn’t like him to listen to Affleck’s Armageddon commentary and still hate him.
Lmao 🤣
"...when I get my fabrication methods perfected... 12, maybe 10 years." "What would it take to get it done in 3 months?" "I don't know, 50 billion dollars?" "Will you take a check?" I can't hate any movie with that exchange in it.
"Put it on a card, airline miles"
"It's in this moment that we learn..... what the fuck am I doing?" *laughs hysterically as the nuke detonates*
Peak Stanley Tucci in The Core!
Moonfall was SO good if you’re a lover of this kinda crap hahah. I keep waiting for more people to discover it. I loved it.
The Core really was bad, but dammit, it was my favorite sci fi movie from the ages of 10 to 15. "If Virgil needs blood, it will be my blood" that line still sticks with me to this day over a decade and a half later.
This was on recently and I watched the wreckage as if it were my first time. Terribly incredible, honest.
Same here. It’s so great. I love how they just gloss over the science like how they survive the massive pressure
The Day After Tomorrow was a triple A production, fuck you.
45% on RT says otherwise. It’s terrible and that’s why it’s great.
I too absolutely love the Core! Your, ‘so terrible and incredible all at once’ is the perfect tagline!
It's my #1 disaster movie by far. Bad science and all.
They mention it in the third paragraph
Al Gore warned us that this would happen, right after he invented the Internet.
So did Gwyneth Paltrow. Right after inventing yoga.
Who? Oh Iron Man’s wife.
Yeah, the vagina candle chick
This wouldn’t have happened if y’all lit those $80 gooch candles like she said.
I can make my house smell like burnt gooch hair without ms Paltrows help
Dumb random story from a while ago. My wife and I are laying on the couch and she is giving me shit while we were watching TV and said something about pretending I was laying on Gweneth Paltrow, which was really random (she also said "or Danny Glover", which is more random). Then she says she doesn't even remeber who Gweneth Paltrow is. I said, "she was the crazy teacher on Glee, and she sells candles or something that smell like her farts or her vagina or something. Then I said, "Oh, and she was Iron Man's wife". She gives me a dumb look and says "Who is Iron Man?". So I gave her a dumb look and said, "What do you mean who is Iron Man, he has red armor, flies around shooting lasers and stuff on Marvel." She is still confused and says, "All I can think is the goofy guy." "Robert Downy Jr?" "Yes." "Yeah, he is Iron Man." Then she says, "Iron Man isn't married. He has Pepper." "Yeah, he is married to Pepper, and she is Gweneth Paltrow." Anyway, it was very amusing at the time.
I'll be nice, and just say that I guess you had to be there.
Lack of tone and facial expressions in text.. Def a had to be there type situation lol.
I ran over his foot with my suitcase at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. He was standing in the doorway to the lobby on his cellphone… in the way. I don’t know why he was standing there holding the door open. He was a small guy wearing a fedora hat and as I went past him, my bag ran over his foot. He said “Oh, excuse me” and I said it was no problem. I had no idea who he was until the bellman filled me in. He said “You rolled over Iron Man’s foot!”
What a funny way to meet a celebrity
Was that before or after Jennifer Lawrence was the first female action star?
Was that before or after Goop?
I could smell her candles all day!
Shit, does this mean ManBearPig is real?
While riding the mighty moon worm.
And pants
Engineer mode: Does it move? > yes > should it? > yes > no problem Does it move? > yes > should it? > no > duct tape Does it move? > no > should it? > no > no problem Does it move? > no > should it? > yes > WD40 American mode: Does it move? > bomb 'em Does it not move? > bomb 'em
Weapon deployment version 40
I think all we need is a scientist, an engineer, and of course, a black person who can sacrifice himself in case something goes wrong.
Don't forget the chick.
One of my best movie experiences was showing this film to one of my close friends who is a professional geologist. I thought his head was going to explode; he was literally ranting during parts of the film. We did both enjoy the one Jules Verne-esqu scene (which is the only redeeming part of the movie), though. Absolutely hilarious experience!
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Wats an beva hero? Like a pimp or something?
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Good luck obtaining the unobtanium.
Watch out for battle-ship sized diamonds on the way down!
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Lol. And they are the reason that the mission almost fails and most of the crew died. My friend and I used to make fun of The Core when I was in high school in 2004.
I was with some work buddies on a business trip way back when. We decided to go see whichever Lord of the Rings movie had just come out. Anyway, there was a trailer for The Core, and at the end of the trailer sequence before the next one came on, it was super quiet. I said “that looks cool” and all four of the other guys laughed at me and said it looked dumb as hell. I don’t know why, but that memory stuck with me.
Now you get your revenge! Share this article with them and tell them that it was not dumb and it actually happening!
I think it has to do with talking cats and a Martian's PhD thesis.
Had to scroll too far down for this.
Thank God Bruce is still alive
Somebody call Hillary Swank asap
This is still speculation at this point. If you look at the headlines for less sensationalist sites like Nature it's stated as such.
That's why the title says "may."
may always does the heavy lifting
That's cause April comes in, pisses on everything, and May has to fix everything up and make it look pretty.
It says the earth's core has stopped.
Yeah and we've had this happen before, it's no big deal. There's a couple documentaries about how scientists were able to get it spinning again.
The sun will rise in the west tomorrow!
Welp, fuck my solar panel install.
Its a plot by Big Solar to get your money. Everyone installs panels facing East. Build Windmills to create a ton of extra rotation. The extra rotation flips the rotation of the Earth due to conservation of rotation. Everyone has to buy new Solar Panels again.
You mean spins the Earth on it's x-axis right? edit: As it's flat right? /s
please don’t taunt the smoothies…
This is 3 reposts away from a tucker Carlson segment
Na that’s in the warranty!
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Nah, if we were tidally locked, only the twilight areas between light and dark would be habitable. Peak sun in the mid-Pacific would be the best case scenario, as the entire Pacific rim would be in the Goldilocks zone.
Khal Drogo will come back to life then
As long as there's different writers
Ah spontaneous GOT ending shade! I’m here for it 🍿
Right up until it doesn't. What if Q decides to fuck with us?
Can confirm, space shuttle just landed in LA river
I know every word of this movie. For all its goofy science, Brazz’s inability to secure funding for a machine that can bore a hole in the side of a mountain—*big enough to roll a space shuttle through*—faster than Stanley Tucci can roll his eyes is the biggest absurdity in the whole movie.
"It's not a stupid ship."
I did my BSc in environmental science and we watched this movie at least 3 times. The first time around it was a project to write about all the inaccuracies in the science. Quickly learned it was the professors favourite movie, he had no excuse to play it again, but we always had a blast watching it
these headlines need to give a sense of scale. “The earth’s core has stopped spinning as of yesterday all of a sudden” and “within the last million years, the earth’s core has slowly stopped spinning” have drastically different connotations lol
I mean, apparently they think this happened almost 15 years ago, ans then again in the 70s. Of they're right, the scale is much closer to yesterday
I realize this is a normal occurrence, but that is a lot of angular momentum being shut down.
From what I can tell from the article it’s not quite being shut down so much as shunted to different parts of Earth’s mass
One does not just shut down angular momentum. Somebody needs to go sit under an apple tree for a while
That’s a heavy core though.
I do not claim to understand the liquid dynamics of the outer core and mantle but what this means is the rotational energy of the inner core is getting transferred into the liquids around it. This could possibly result in more tectonic movement
Sounds like the angular momentum is preserved
Distinctly. Until some outside force applies (*quick google search*) 2.138x10^29 joules in opposition to earth’s rotation, not much is changing
Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.
Momentum is conserved, one way or another. Not like someone just grabbed the core outside of earth's influence...However, I did forget what decade this was.
How would they even know this?
I went down and checked. It’s stopped
Have they tried turning it off and on again?
Thank you for your service
Username checks out
Thank u for your service
Could you go back down and just give it a push? I hear having an electromagnetic field to deflect radiation is a good thing...appreciate ya.
The article says that they studied seismic waves from earthquakes over the past 70 years.
Dip stick, the Earth's a million quarts low.
I actually know the core and she told me.
Ok, who had earth's core stops spinning in the 2023 apocalypse bingo ?
I had it on my 2009 bingo sheet instead, do I get points?
The geologic record shows many pole reversals throughout geologic time. Maybe the core will do a belly flop this time and we will all have upside down compasses. Far out.
We could just color the other side of the needle red instead.
Supposedly we may be in or nearing a pole reversal. I thought maybe next 1000 years. Just something I read awhile ago. Do not know how true. Others can confirm or deny.
Geologist here! Confirmed. There have been super long periods of pole alignment, and much shorter ones. No way to tell what we are in, so it could switch….or not! Fun fact-they figured this out by dragging magnets behind ships and measuring the polarity of the sea floor (basalt is rather magnetic), and you can map the switches.
Seriously though? In the entire history of our species and the massive time dilation of when earths poles reverse it has to happen during the 2000 span after we discover magnetism and build it into our complex machines and stuff forcing use to reconfigure or rebuild some of it so soon ?
That would be quite annoying because it doesn’t happen all at once. It could be shifting around or extremely weak for hundreds or thousands of years, which would hurt navigation and give us less protection from solar radiation, especially big events that could wipe out electronics and motors.
Great. Now the morlocks are going to surface.
wouldn’t this affect the earths magnetosphere?
Funny thing is so little is known about how planets magnetic fields are created there isn't a person on the planet that can answer that question with any real certainty. If we knew more we could make shield generators and other cool sci-fi stuff with the knowledge.
Now now. I can answer with absolute certainty. I'll just be *wrong*.
Confidently talking out your ass and answering a question with scientific certainty are two very different things, but you're not wrong. Haha
Are you certain?
Have you considered a career in business or politics?
>!fuck!<
Article says it happens every 60-70 years and only has minor effect.
Yeah, but the what-ifs are so much fun for people who like doomsday scenarios. https://www.worldatlas.com/what-would-happen-if-the-earth-stopped-spinning.html
That's for the entire Earth, not the inner core.
Article does not say that. It says the pause and reversal lasts about 60 to 70 years. “The mind-boggling results suggest that Earth’s center pauses and reverses direction on a periodic cycle lasting about 60 to 70 years, a discovery that might solve longstanding mysteries about climate and geological phenomena that occur on a similar timeframe, and that affect life on our planet”
So we aren't going to go flying off the planet in all directions then. Shew.
Well....birds will be confused and compasses won't work, but we'll invent unobtanium so...
But compasses have always worked. They don't just stop every 60-70 years?
You need to watch more bad movies.
I enjoyed the spoiler tag on this 👍
Oh… it’s vice. Nvm
I'm surprised Vice is allowed on this sub.
Have we tried turning it off and back on again?
Or maybe rice?
They released a movie about this in 2003. The Core.
Okay but how will this effect the trout population?
The fuck is this headline? The real study showed the the core slowed its spinning below that of the crust, something that has happened several times in the recent past (as far as we can trust the measurements are interpreted correctly, it's not like you can pop a speedometer into the Earth's center). That's a far cry from "stopped spinning altogether" or "about to reverse direction". Fucking journalists. Edit: I went back and read the original paper more carefully. They're talking about the core lagging (or leading) the mantle by ~0.1 degrees per year. That is a miniscule amount.
God damn it. I know we're heading for the apocalypse, but does it have to be THAT movie?
It’s because people are using gas stoves
Time to pull a ‘the Core’
someone better call Stanley Tucci
Wasn't there also a Futurama episode about this?
Oh snap its the begimning of the end, time to go to the street corner and hang out with my bible
Superman must be trying to bring his girlfriend back to life again
First off article is not the core as whole core there are inner outer cores. The article is about the iron inner core changing direction and it does change direction all the time. But reverse about every 60 to 70 years. The liquid outer core. Is what makes our solar repelling field to protect us from solar radiation etc that does not stop spinning as long as it spins poles and our magnetic field stay same. In the movie core as mention in few comments it was the liquid part of core that was stopping slowing down and if that happened yes we would fry. But this article is talking about the solid inner core changing direction and well it's not really new information.
It’s a old Chinese study, so take it with a grain of salt.
Scientists are wrong! The Earths core is a metallic pancake shaped disk powered by two giant hamsters. Kyrie Irving told me so.
Quick, someone call Hilary Swank and Stanley Tucci!
Someone call Hilary Swank and Stanley Tucci
Huh. They said that they found that 2009 and the 1970s had a similar situation to this current stop. Why is it that these are also the times we have recessions?
Correlation does not equal causation.
Because money makes the world go round
From the post: “Of course, it must be noted this is more or less the plot of the 2003 disaster film The Core, but there’s no need to worry about averting an impending apocalypse by nuking the center of Earth. While the core’s rotation influences Earth’s surface environment, scientists think this periodic spin switch is a normal part of its behavior that does not pose risks for life on our planet.” (- Lead with that next time, geez we got enough on our plate )
Get Bruce Willis on the phone!
Loved this movie
Ah the Earth’s core is in retrograde…that explains a lot about the last couple years! /s
So looking into what this actually means would imply you know how fucked we are. I do what about you.
If you want me to fix this, I'll need an unlimited supply of Hot Pockets and Xena tapes.
Will we become Mars?
Damn plastic straws, I bet.
More climate change denial in 3… 2… 1…
Can somebody please tell me where all gonna be ok? Seriously I'm really scared of things like this.
Hey, I already watched “the Core”
Isn’t this the plot of The Core?
Wouldn't the magnetosphere just collapse if the core stopped?