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Can't argue with that logic (sopuli.xyz)

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Water mountains are my new favorite concept

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yep. This is due to variations in the gravitational magnitude at any point from the earth, moon, sun, and other bodies, as well as the periodicity of the earth/moon/sun rotations interacting with friction (between the sea and the sea, the sea and the atmosphere, and the sea and the lithosphere), and creating a giant standing wave (which is constantly changing, like an instrument or a musical composition) of ocean water all over the earth. This doesn't even take into account atmospheric pressure and water temperature/viscosity variations. The earth is a complex system with waves upon waves upon waves of interacting coupled oscillations all interfering with each other. Whoa 😳

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And more. Major river discharge can raise the sea level in the area. Then big circular currents similar like when you stirr your cup of coffee or tea. Or chocolate milk 🤤

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Always amazed me how such insignificant creatures, bacterium on the scale of the earth, can have such a big impact on the environment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Phytoplankton produce 50-85% of all the oxygen on Earth, and cyanobacteria did even more before them. Before all this free oxygen could float around in the air, all the metals in the ocean had to be oxidized, which is where the massive banded iron formations come from, and then all the minerals in the crust had to oxidize too. Every layer of Earth's surface was radically changed by this, taking a billion years and likely prompting the evolution of eukaryotes.