Oddbean

i think the earth can be very old but the evidence of pole shifts in volcanic rocks is undeniable and there are several different directions that have been found so it has moved around several times a pole shift where the entire crust of the earth slips due to massive change in magnetic polarity of the space around it means the inducing of a massive coriolis effect on the water, ie, if it slips 90` so that the prior north and south move to become near the equator, and this happens at similar speeds as the earth's rotation (400km/h) the entire ocean is going to wash over all of the land everywhere, and very little of it is not going to be washed away by a mile thick layer of sea water this on top of, during such times of magnetic polarity rotation, the fact that the earth's magnetic field is far weaker than normal and because of this, the atmosphere is heavily charged with electrons and this means a period of intense rain, storms, lightning (cosmic thunderbolt level, lightning strikes that are so big they make nuclear weapons look like fireworks) volcanoes, and all that dust in the atmosphere, things will get very cold and very wet, and then, after that, the ocean will wash over and wash away almost every part of the land, and return back to its normal location after a few weeks the ocean floor is the youngest rock at 200 million years, and this is not anything to do with carbon dating this is from rock weathering, which is a far more reliable type of dating i believe that the earth has grown in mass over time and not just from dust falling on it from space, there is models i've seen from a western australian geologist that take a map of the earth according to the rock age estimates of each part of the surface and then it does a "what if", deleting the parts as you go backwards in time and the model eventually ends up a ball of rock with rivers, and the earth swelled fastest where the crust was thinnest, in the same way as a citrus fruit that has been attacked by fungus once it recovers the way it grows, you can see an almost perfect matchup of coastlines between several parts of the land so, there's a lot of moving parts in this, but suffice it to say the signs of a magnetic polarity rotation are all there and within maybe 30 years it is likely to pass through the middle of the sigma curve the chances are pretty high that a lot of people can survive, but the event 75000 years ago (they happen every 12000 years or so in recent history) left only 5000 humans through the eye of the needle on that occasion... this is also why i'm planning to move to a high altitude plateau region in the near future because i'll be an old fart when this shit goes down, i'm not gonna have much hope of surviving unless i've done my homework, made all the countermeasures i can think of to get through possibly having my whole world mostly washed away but it will recover, and it's unlikely it can't be survived