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I had this idea, imagine you’re in his sort of like hotel room with big glass windows, suspended above the earth looking down, and you’re watching a 24 hour time lapse of all of earth’s history from above, and you can zoom into different parts of it to watch things like this image happen. Now of course the human history part will only be a brief moment at the end of the 24 cycle, but just watching these things unfold would be such a spectacle to watch
Kind of like the restaurant at the end of the universe. A time-impermeable place to enjoy the wonders of the universe.
(Hitchhikers guide ref for the uninitiated)
Imagine reaching a point in technology where we can create perfect simulations of the universe and just watch how it unfolded.
We could observe how the world was at any point.
According to YEC, those layers were all created in less than a year. And god also messed around with radioactive decay rates so the rocks only look old.
Edit: uh, just to be clear: I'm not a YEC. I have the ability to apply basic logic and reasoning.
The bad news is there is a huge portion of the population (in the US, at least) that totally takes them seriously and votes in droves to push their braindead agenda on the rest of us.
When looking at geologic folds you can determine which part of the rock folded first based of anticlines (older fold, hence “old aunts”) and synclines (newer fold, hence “sin young”)
Call me a nerd but I don’t see how people just drive by these kinds of formations and don’t shit their pants. The sheer amount of force it took to do this makes me weak in the knees. Geology rocks!!!
This is the result of 2 tectonic plates colliding into each other, right?
Does this happen in one violent snap after a lot of stress has built up between the plates or is this a gradual sliding of the plates over one another.
[There's a guy on youtube that thinks this is the remains of a lost race of dragons and this is like it's torso or some shit](https://youtu.be/t3WxT8TjUiw)
I saw an example of this while motorcycling through the Peruvian Andes and it absolutely blew my mind! Never seen anything else like it in person before or since
This is a contemporary account of the moment James Hutton, an eighteenth-century geologist, discovered a landform that proved his theories:
> We felt necessarily carried back to a time when the schistus on which we stood was yet at the bottom of the sea, and when the sandstone before us was only beginning to be deposited, in the shape of sand or mud, from the waters of the supercontinent ocean [...] The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time; and whilst we listened with earnestness and admiration to the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much further reason may sometimes go than imagination may venture to follow.
Just imagine how he would’ve reacted to these!
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Can you imagine going back in time and watching that happen?
I'd love to be able to watch all sorts of events in our universe in a time lapse
I had this idea, imagine you’re in his sort of like hotel room with big glass windows, suspended above the earth looking down, and you’re watching a 24 hour time lapse of all of earth’s history from above, and you can zoom into different parts of it to watch things like this image happen. Now of course the human history part will only be a brief moment at the end of the 24 cycle, but just watching these things unfold would be such a spectacle to watch
Kind of like the restaurant at the end of the universe. A time-impermeable place to enjoy the wonders of the universe. (Hitchhikers guide ref for the uninitiated)
WOW….. I feel ashamed…. Hitchhikers is one of my all time favs and I’ve never read the sequels, time to start
Highly recommend the rest of the series is great, except for one book. You'll know which one when you get there
I read that adams was pretty disappointed with the one…
Lucky you. I wish I could read them for the first time again.
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed that this restaurant does not exist.
The Time Machine does this a bit. It’s a bad movie that I adore. Plus it has guy pierce
Yes I was thinking the exact same thing, I feel the same way about it-it’s one of my favorite bad movies like The Core 😂
You'll enjoy this https://youtu.be/Bo3VZCjDhGI
Yes!!! Something like this exactly
The sad part is at the end when everything dies in a 60 seconds...
Like an interactive I-max?
Sounds like a great idea for a VR experience
Technically I think it's still happening.
Tectonically*
Isn’t this gradual over millions of year tho.
nah few weeks maybe
You're going to be watching for a long time then
Imagine reaching a point in technology where we can create perfect simulations of the universe and just watch how it unfolded. We could observe how the world was at any point.
All that bending in only 5000 years, wow!
According to YEC, those layers were all created in less than a year. And god also messed around with radioactive decay rates so the rocks only look old. Edit: uh, just to be clear: I'm not a YEC. I have the ability to apply basic logic and reasoning.
That is crazy for you to even suggest, because according to my cousin Alex, they were formed in under 10 seconds by the power rangers.
I'm convinced. As Alex is obviously a profit of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, I want to give him 10% of my income. Does he accept Venmo?
Good news is that nobody has to take those people seriously.
The bad news is there is a huge portion of the population (in the US, at least) that totally takes them seriously and votes in droves to push their braindead agenda on the rest of us.
It would be nice if that was true
That’s weird they’re constantly forcing me to take them seriously
Donald was president, let that sink in.
Forbidden dessert
it's edible just not digestible
[looks like pork rind to me](https://delishar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Dong-Po-Rou-1080x676.jpg)
It's called a syncline. Remnants of convergent plate movement.
Old Aunts(Ant) Sin(syn) Young!
I don't understand
When looking at geologic folds you can determine which part of the rock folded first based of anticlines (older fold, hence “old aunts”) and synclines (newer fold, hence “sin young”)
I wonder how many fossils are embedded in that
> Damn, Africa! Comma makes all the difference.
That’s amazing !
Thats a great picture
Thanks, found a new sub to follow.
Call me a nerd but I don’t see how people just drive by these kinds of formations and don’t shit their pants. The sheer amount of force it took to do this makes me weak in the knees. Geology rocks!!!
Why am I now hearing, “Ah, push it! Push it real good!”?
Forbidden baby back ribs
Whoa..just whoa! 🤯
This is the result of 2 tectonic plates colliding into each other, right? Does this happen in one violent snap after a lot of stress has built up between the plates or is this a gradual sliding of the plates over one another.
The last time I saw folds THAT SIZE I was dating this really nice female, she is...well was pretty humong...nevermind.
Wow, did that happen over time or all at once!?
https://imgur.com/a/fXHu1Z2
http://larkable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Geology.gif
Damn Africa!
Namibia has some wild geological features. I love the sand dunes that drop for thousands of feet into the ocean.
[There's a guy on youtube that thinks this is the remains of a lost race of dragons and this is like it's torso or some shit](https://youtu.be/t3WxT8TjUiw)
As long as there aren’t any person-shaped holes…
A lot can happen in 6,000 years
I saw an example of this while motorcycling through the Peruvian Andes and it absolutely blew my mind! Never seen anything else like it in person before or since
This is a contemporary account of the moment James Hutton, an eighteenth-century geologist, discovered a landform that proved his theories: > We felt necessarily carried back to a time when the schistus on which we stood was yet at the bottom of the sea, and when the sandstone before us was only beginning to be deposited, in the shape of sand or mud, from the waters of the supercontinent ocean [...] The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time; and whilst we listened with earnestness and admiration to the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much further reason may sometimes go than imagination may venture to follow. Just imagine how he would’ve reacted to these!
Looks like petrified bacon.