Thursday, August 31, 2017

Earth, Billiard Balls and Mountains


 A question of scale ..
( .. Getting the message?) (Nope, .. not yet .. )



Fig.1.  Wikipedia entry.  After many years of me sledging Plate Tectonics - the logic being irrefutable (don's blog + sci.geo.geology),  this article finally folded.


 
Considering further the Zen OMountains and the possible enlightenment to be had from realising that we will probably have to go at least twice around the w.w.w. dot of Google's earth and a whole lot of stuff from misfits of institutional note like Nasa, Noaa, USGS, Unesco, National Geographic etc., who have still to scale the glass mountain, rescue the beautiful maiden (and therefore to our very considerable dismay also make it clear that they have not updated their definitions according to the semantics of the wikipedia), we discover to our very considerable surprise that not only is there no such thing as "mountain building", but also that there is logically (therefore) no such thing as mountains either (except for volcanoes, ".. the only mountains that get built.")

I mean, stands to reason, .. dunnit?

(more? .. =>) 





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