[HN Gopher] Earth moves far under our feet: Study shows Earth's ...
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       Earth moves far under our feet: Study shows Earth's inner core
       oscillates
        
       Author : lelf
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2022-06-20 17:29 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | l33tbro wrote:
       | OT - but the insistence on italicized type for this article is
       | rather bizarre. No other USC article I've ever seen follows this
       | formatting.
        
         | anyfoo wrote:
         | Safari here, don't see that?
        
       | dontcare007 wrote:
       | Nikola Tesla is not surprised.
        
       | swader999 wrote:
       | I knew I felt something.
        
       | andrewflnr wrote:
       | This article seems like it's trying to imply that the core
       | changes _position_ relative to the earth, when all the actual
       | details, and the linked journal article [0] only talk about
       | changes in rotation speed relative to the surface. This appears
       | to be a uniquely and bafflingly bad case of science journalism.
       | 
       | Anyway, it would be cool if this led us to understand where
       | mantle plumes come from. I don't know how likey that is, but it
       | seems that the dynamics between the core and mantle is the right
       | place to look.
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       | [0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9916 <-- Just
       | read the abstract of this instead
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | Since the change in length-of-day is mentioned, is seems more
       | accurate to say that both the inner core and the crust oscillate
       | with respect to each other.
        
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