Smog checks and CARB going away!

[rallytaff]

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/regional-sea-level/overview/

NASA and the NOAA do NOT fuck around. We can measure distance to Earth with a few milimeter accuracy.

We are technologically capable of measuring distortion of space-time 1/10,000 the diameter of a proton to locate black hole collisions. It's called LIGO. This is where we are at as a society.

Yes, the ground sinks for many reasons and many are outlined in the link above.

You did not answer my question! Where did all this water come from?

 

[rallytaff]

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/regional-sea-level/overview/

NASA and the NOAA do NOT fuck around. We can measure distance to Earth with a few milimeter accuracy.

We are technologically capable of measuring distortion of space-time 1/10,000 the diameter of a proton to locate black hole collisions. It's called LIGO. This is where we are at as a society.

Yes, the ground sinks for many reasons and many are outlined in the link above.

Who the hell cares about black hole collisions? It doesn't impact my life in any way, shape or form!

 

[Intuit]

Happy Labor Day fellas. 👍

His point was, if the land was sinking, we could measure it. Relative to measuring interactions on an atomic level, this is trivial. I believe those were his points?

Interestingly, the Earth continues to loose "small" amounts of water to space.

But in reference to the water origin question, I've heard the comet theory. Besides being in the "Goldilocks Zone" for temperature, we have the right amount of gravity and an atmosphere that retains it. Mars has neither the gravity or the appropriate atmosphere for retaining it, longer term.

I'll watch this at double-speed. Should be interesting... 😎

View: https://youtu.be/lJG0jtYAhJY

 

[sczamun]

Who the hell cares about black hole collisions? It doesn't impact my life in any way, shape or form!

Intuit got it. This is trivial stuff. The hard part is predicting at a local level. The link shows that thermal expansion of the water and the addition of fresh water from melting ice. It also talks about subsidence which is a fascinating thing to read about.