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 …
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
To be fair, the process can take a few thousand years to complete, so basically we're not going to stop hearing about it.
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Replying to @JacquelynGill
That's the thing: back when I was a kid, people were talking about it happening over a series of weeks and it would destroy the Earth. Only until some scientists wrote in to big newspapers and were like, okay it's actually fine, no need to panic.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
That's some poor journalism right there. I'll be curious to read the book this essay was adapted from. This is largely outside my field, though AGU tweeted the link.
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Replying to @JacquelynGill
Looking at some of the comments, seems like there are a lot of misconceptions in the essay.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
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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