#inner core

[unbfacts]

In 2023, scientists discovered that Earth's inner core is slowing down and may even be reversing its rotation relative to the surface. This shift could be part of a long-term cycle lasting 60-70 years.

[geologyin-blog]

For decades, the Earth's inner core was thought to be a static, solid sphere of iron and nickel, unaltered by time. However, new research shatters this notion, revealing that the outer layer of this core is dynamically changing.

[spicy-caprisun0]

Bones brother. His name is Papyrus but he is referred to as Red Eyes. 🫶

[leptrois]

supranti- and supreu- genders

new terms: suprantigender and supreugender

[ID: an image of multiple coloured rectangles and names. There is a pillar of different colours, stripes are of varying thickness. There are 10 stripes, the first stripe is very thick and split into dark purple and dark gold, the second stripe is incredibly thin and is black, the third stripe is very thick and a light black, the fourth stripe is average and is a denim teal-blue, the fifth stripe is average and is red, the sixth stripe is very thick and is peach, the seventh stripe is very thick and a light grey, the eighth stripe is average and an off-white, the ninth stripe is average and sky blue, the tenth stripe is very thick and a lighter sky blue. The pillar has a thin black outline, to the right of the colours, are some vertical stripes, the first vertical stripe is black and only is as long as the first stripe, on top of that vertical stripe is a second one in light pink that climbs from the second stripe to the sixth stripe, the third vertical stripe climbs from the seventh stripe to the ninth stripe and is a sky blue. To the right of those vertical stripes are thin black lines, like diagram pointers. One points to the first vertical stripe with the word “suprantigender”, the second just above points at the second vertical stripe with the word “antigender”. On the right side is another diagram pointer going from the bottom to the eighth stripe saying “infra-“. Above the second vertical stripe of the right are more words stacked on top of eachother saying, “agender, eugender, supreugender,”. End ID]

supreugender or supereugender: superseding, overreaching, or exceeding the eugender experience; supragender eugenderedness or eugendered supragenderness

suprantigender or superantigender: superseding, overreaching, or exceeding the antigender experience; antigender supragenderedness or supragendered antigenderness. it's also a form of infragender.

while some may use their agender identity, genderlessness, lack of gender identity, or mutual or self-disidentification towards gender to describe a type suprantigender life, that's not universal among agiaspec or glingender people. also, agender can be its own thing separated from all this analogy.

eugender may be seen as on surface, while supreugender may be seen as above the surface. however, there's also telluro- (terrestrial/terranean) form of eugender, or even subterranean, in which it feels blurry in-between eugender and agender.

below agender, the antigender spectrum. interpret the sandy color as a form of matter/solid, then red microcosmic magma and lithospheral/underground water (aquifers/thalasso-). the dark grey represents the mix of them and the purple/violet an allegory of mystical/mythic portals and gold for nucleus/Earth's inner core. take note this is simply for an easier interpretation/understanding

edit: an idea for beyond infragender is ultrigender, including supranagender

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[a-modernmajorgeneral]

The only way to know firsthand would be to take a real Journey to the Center of the Earth—but for now, a new study suggests our planet’s inner core might be spinning more slowly than it used to.

The Earth’s inner core, a solid ball of iron and nickel about 70 percent of the size of the moon, rotates along with the rest of the planet, but scientists disagree about whether it might spin at a slightly slower, faster or equal speed, compared to the outer layers. The study, published in June in the journal Nature, uses seismic waves to add evidence for the idea that the inner core switches between spinning faster and slower than Earth’s crust.

Such changes in the inner core’s spin could have a small impact on the Earth’s magnetic field—and they could, very marginally, alter the length of days up on the surface.

The inner core is “a planet within a planet, so how it moves is obviously very important,” Xiaodong Song, a seismologist at Peking University in China, told the New York Times’ Robin George Andrews last year.

But scientists have been struggling to pin down the specifics of the inner core’s motion. The controversy of whether or not the heart of the planet spins differently than the rest of the Earth reignited in January 2023, after Song and others proposed in Nature Geoscience that the core’s rotation oscillates in a 70-year cycle, alternating between leading and lagging the spin of the planet every 35 years. The most recent switch, from faster to slower than the outer part of the Earth, occurred about 15 years ago, according to those researchers.

“This paper shows that the evidence for [faster] rotation is strong before about 2009 and basically dies off in subsequent years.” Paul Richards, a seismologist at Columbia University who was not involved with either paper, told the Washington Post’sCarolyn Y. Johnson in 2023.

Not all scientists who study the interior of the planet agreed, however. Dongdong Tian, a seismologist at the China University of Geosciences, and Lianxing Wen, a geoscientist at Stony Brook University, wrote in a comment to the journal Geophysical Research Letters that fluctuations on the surface of the inner core could explain the observed changes, even if its spin was constant.

Now, the new study provides support in favor of last year’s paper, suggesting the inner core has been decreasing its speed since about 2008—and it fuels further debates on the nature of Earth’s center.

Researchers have no way of directly observing the planet’s innermost layers, so they instead rely on tracking the energy released by earthquakes. These seismic events generate waves of energy that pass through the Earth’s crust, mantle and core.

To view these waves, geologists use a tool called a seismometer to record the shaking of the Earth’s surface that’s generated by an earthquake. The instrument produces wiggles on a line graph, which they call waveforms. The researchers understood that if they tracked waveforms from seismic waves that passed along the same path through the center of the Earth in different years, they might be able to see how the inner structure of the planet is evolving over time.

For the study, they observed patterns in the waveforms from 121 earthquakes that originated in the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica from 1991 to 2023. These were recorded on a seismometer in Alaska after traveling through the Earth’s interior. If the inner core is rotating at a different speed than the layers above it, then the repeated seismic waves should have passed through different areas of the inner core during the 32-year period, leading to differences in the detected waveforms, even while they take the same overall path through the planet, per Science News’ Nikk Ogasa.

But if the inner core was shifting its speed in a cycle, some of these waveforms would repeat. And sure enough, the team was able to match more than 25 patterns before and after 2008, showing a symmetry they say is explained by a recent slowing of the inner core’s speed.

“When I first saw the seismograms that hinted at this change, I was stumped,” study co-author John Vidale, an earth scientist at the University of Southern California, says in a statement. “But when we found two dozen more observations signaling the same pattern, the result was inescapable. The inner core had slowed down for the first time in many decades.”

Still, not everyone is convinced. Wen tells Science News that even with the new study, “nothing has changed”—he maintains that the expanding and contracting of the inner core’s surface is significant enough to explain the patterns observed in the waveforms.

Debates like these tend to polarize the scientific community. But Hrvoje Tkalčić, a geophysicist at the Australian National University who was not involved with the study, tells Science News “it is very likely the truth is somewhere in between.” To try to understand the unreachable depths of Earth’s interior, scientists tend to make a lot of assumptions, he says. “We need more data to find the ultimate truth.”

[martin-james2121]

Europe is set to launch EnVision Mission in 2031, focused on studying Venus and its inner core

The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the official green light to the EnVision mission, which assures to offer groundbreaking insights into Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor.

Scheduled for liftoff in 2031 aboard an Ariane 6 rocket, EnVision will undertake a thorough examination of Venus, delving into its fiery inner core and exploring its dynamic outer atmosphere. This ambitious endeavor seeks to unravel the planet’s intricate history, geological processes, and extraordinary climate conditions.

“EnVision is all set to revolutionize our comprehension of Venus,” remarked Thomas Voirin, ESA EnVision study manager. “With the mission blueprint firmly established, we’re enthusiastic about transitioning from planning to construction. Our objective is to unravel the mysteries surrounding what may be the most enigmatic terrestrial planet in the Solar System.”

EnVision’s array of advanced instruments will unravel the mysteries of Venus. It will mark the inaugural mission to directly investigate the planet’s subsurface features using a radar sounder, offering insights into its geological dynamics. Additionally, VenSAR, an advanced radar tool, will furnish intricate surface maps, uncovering the planet’s terrain with precision up to 10 meters.

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[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[cottagecorefairy]

foggy day in the forest.

[spicy-caprisun0]

Number One(#1).

First ever clone of Bones.

The pink cloth around his waist is from Number Four(#4).

The red gloves are a reference to the phrase, "blood on one's hands."

[jollyparaphernalia]

I like to think no matter the circumstances or Siffrin's role, Isabeau is always a LITTLE down-bad for the little fella. Even when they're dumping his inner secrets out on the ground for everyone to see.

I don't think you can fix this guy, Isabeau

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[crayonboxkid]

Old Polly Pocket Games ( 2000s )

[soulicious]

Im sorry but why is child abuse the norm in Desi households? It's frustrating how everyone thinks it's "okay" for a parent to hit their kid.