February 15, 2021

Episode 6 - And yet, the Earth moves

1 hour 55 minutes

In this episode we discuss the possibility that the Moon drags the Earth’s lithosphere westward, ultimately causing plate tectonics, as well as Alfred Wegener’s first proposition of continental drift way back in 1912, and the possibility of taking a $GME rocket to Pluto…

00:32 - Welcome: gamestonk and Mercury moves,

08:38 - Some background on Wegener and continental drift (Demhardt, 2006),

58:18 - Western migration of plates seen in asymmetric ocean ridges (Chalot-Prat et al., 2017).

More links:

Space geodesy validation of the global lithospheric flow (Crespi et al., 2007),

Tidal modulation of plate motions (Zaccagnino, Vespe, and Doglioni, 2020),

Brexit 1.0,

Looking for plate tectonics in the composition of stars (Jura et al., 2014)

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