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Post by missouriboy on Jan 21, 2020 23:53:13 GMT
Fascinating stuff. When I come back, I want to be an archaeologist .... or a banker. To be an archaeologist, you need a banker. If you're both, you're set.  |
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 1, 2020 3:17:34 GMT
People of the British Isles
Population Genetics and Facial GeneticsUniversity of Oxford This is very interesting study and seems to represent additional work done after Brian Sykes' "Vikings, Saxons and Celts"(2006). I suggest some climate funds might be more usefully applied here.  www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/population-genetics
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 6, 2020 4:26:24 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 6, 2020 17:49:06 GMT
It may not be apparent why this post is here - you will need to read to the end of the linked page from TallblokesTalkshop. "Are Earth’s obliquity and axial precession in a long-term 5:8 ratio?"![]() "If there is a mean ratio of 5:8 it would be linked to the known variation of Earth’s tilt, which in turn causes variation in the precession and obliquity periods.
Encyclopedia Britannica’s definition says:
Precession of the equinoxes, motion of the equinoxes along the ecliptic (the plane of Earth’s orbit) caused by the cyclic precession of Earth’s axis of rotation…The projection onto the sky of Earth’s axis of rotation results in two notable points at opposite directions: the north and south celestial poles. Because of precession, these points trace out circles on the sky.
(Axial precession is another term for ‘precession of the equinoxes’)."tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/are-earths-obliquity-and-axial-precession-in-a-long-term-58-ratio/You will need to read to the end of the linked page to see the interesting link to 'ancient peoples' - and it is interesting it raises several interesting questions. |
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 19, 2020 3:27:55 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Feb 19, 2020 3:54:36 GMT
Not spread by rats ..... I hear.
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 24, 2020 20:47:14 GMT
Not spread by rats ..... I hear. Perhaps two-legged ones. |
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 11, 2020 4:08:53 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 8, 2020 3:28:43 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on May 1, 2020 3:23:33 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on May 1, 2020 9:57:13 GMT
How to turn the developed world into the undeveloped world in 30 seconds - and a CME is a not-unlikely event. |
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Post by Ratty on May 1, 2020 12:45:11 GMT
How to turn the developed world into the undeveloped world in 30 seconds - and a CME is a not-unlikely event. But a pandemic is worse, right? |
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Post by nautonnier on May 1, 2020 13:53:17 GMT
How to turn the developed world into the undeveloped world in 30 seconds - and a CME is a not-unlikely event. But a pandemic is worse, right? I prefer a pandemic to a CME Imagine - after you read this the sky goes a funny color your power goes out and despite the UPS your computer just stops. You look out of the window and there are some purple flashes which soon die out. Your cell phone appears to work but has no signal, your house phone doesn't work. You go out to explore the neighborhood and the remote door locks on your car don't work and the car is dead - only the one neighbor with a vintage car has any motorized transport. But there is no fuel as there is no power to pump it out of the gas station tanks that will be bypassed in a few days when those with the few vintage cars without electronics that survived try to get around. The supermarkets have perhaps 3 days of food but most is in freezers and will spoil after a week. Water is no longer being pumped to buildings so many dwellings are out of water. No radio, no TV, no phones of any type... nobody knows what is going on. Within days there are roaming feral gangs robbing for food and drinks. After 6 weeks there is no more food to rob and nobody has the energy to riot and people start dying in the famine and of disease from drinking polluted water. After 3 months very few of the population survive - those that know how to fish/hunt and how to prepare what they have killed for food may survive if one of the rioting starving mobs do not kill them. Way out in the wilds some farms will be running but slowly they too will be finding that things are more difficult as things fall into disrepair - where do you even get nails? A year after the event the world human population could be back to a few million subsistence farming - there may even be pockets of surviving technology but as that breaks it cannot be replaced. Even the preppers will start finding things difficult after more than a year After 5 years...?? I am told that some safety breaks have been put into long distance power lines and transformers hardened mainly against electro-magnetic pulse from nuclear air bursts not the far more powerful CME. But whether they can be constructively brought online and have equipment at the other end to generate the power who knows. I'll take my chance with a pandemic thanks  |
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Post by blustnmtn on May 1, 2020 14:28:38 GMT
Perhaps this discovery will lead to an understanding of the genetic mutation that has spawned the "Man-Bun". |
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Post by missouriboy on May 1, 2020 14:51:42 GMT
How to turn the developed world into the undeveloped world in 30 seconds - and a CME is a not-unlikely event. Also titled, "Would Charlemagne have even noticed?" Versus today. |
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