a tornado at night is functionally invisible, especially if it’s rain-wrapped and there are no arcs from breaking power lines. At best you can glimpse it in brief flashes when lightning silhouettes the funnel, like something out of a horror movie.
Sometimes I think about new life refilling the earth millions of years from now, like the dinosaurs after the Permian extinction. It sucks to witness a mass extinction but in the long timeline it’s only an instant. Just happens to be an instant my entire life fits inside of
I recently learned a really weird piece of evidence geologists apparently look at: heavy oxygen trapped in rocks. Turns out water with oxygen18 is slower to evaporate than water with the lighter oxygen16, which apparently means that rocks absorb oxygen18 water more readily than oxygen16 water, and therefore landmasses tend to accumulate oxygen18 leaving less in the seas... which means, when geologists find really old sea floor rocks full of oxygen18, it suggests that there was a lot more oxygen18 in the seas back then, which suggests that there was very little dry land to absorb oxygen18, meaning ancient earth might have been a water world, which is what we see in the start of the video.
https://www.astronomy.com/science/ancient-earth-may-have-been-a-water-world-with-no-dry-land/
*which also has obvious implications for the origins of life, as the article mentions—none of Darwin's "warm little ponds"
Mostly by looking at patterns across continents. For example the Appalachian mountains and Scottish highlands were once part of the same mountain range. Geologists were able to figure that out by closely examining those mountain ranges. With enough patterns like that you can start to reconstruct the plate movement.
It all comes down to leverage
In a regular job (not owning capital), your wage depends on the cost to your boss if you quit
Most essential work, like harvesting food and hauling away garbage, does not involve special skills, which puts it in the "workers are easy to replace" category. Even though this crucial work is often exhausting, demanding, and at times dangerous, a large pool of people are willing and able to do the work, so the workers have very little individual leverage. Emphasis on individual—a large strike would bring society to its knees.
often when deals have been in the works ISIS-K suddenly pop up and do terror attacks
do you have any examples off the top of your head? that's something I'd like to look into
the second time I actually started writing down dates and events to create a timeline
You should consider sharing this some time!
Do they know each other better than they know you? Is there something they all share in common that you don't? Is there an age gap? Seniority gap? Do they all go to the same church? Have they clocked your politics? Are you new to the area? Are they a clique? Some groups of people just won't talk to you unless you are socially relevant to them or unusually charismatic. If you're neither of those things it can be hard to break in.
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