I remember about 15 years ago there was a scare about this in the media and everyone was losing their collective shit over it. Aaaand the wheel of time ever turns and once again this is back. https://twitter.com/JacquelynGill/status/957245919317151746 …
Looking at some of the comments, seems like there are a lot of misconceptions in the essay.
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A colleague who works on this says: "None of the information in this piece is exactly wrong..." but "Once again, the geological meaning of ‘about to’ is being conflated with the more everyday understanding."
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This comes up on basically every article about geologic processes. We have a real timescale mismatch problem in our thinking.
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Yep, it's a problem and it's annoying.
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