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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xeriar" data-source="post: 800646" data-attributes="member: 4116">It's a satire site, notice the term trailer review.The trailer gives the impression that a certain military experiment causing remote earthquakes caused the core (I would admit I'm assuming the inner core) currently spinning at a rate between .015 and 3 degrees per year (it does vary, of course) with respect to the Earth, to stop.  Since the inner core is not responsible for our magnetic field (which disperses into seperate fields fairly frequently over geological time anyway, and within human evolutionary history), I'm unsure what this is supposed to mean or why performing counterexperiments wouldn't start it up again anyway.Of course the 1,000 megaton bomb or bombs could be such a counterexperiment, but then the Earthquake weapon wouldn't be secret.And the trailer gives the impression that they're actually going to the core, or getting the bomb there.  That is a kind of engineering feat the Ringworld novels were based on, if only on a far smaller scale.All of this aside, what gets me is the currents within the outer core and mantle itself are more powerful than that by large orders of magnitude, in multiple directions, but if they were somehow permenantly stopped and undergoing rapid cooling it would take a collision with a large asteroid to start it up again.You've got me puzzling on how to make sense of it, maybe it will hit me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-p" title="Stick out tongue    :-p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-p" /></blockquote>

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