Comments on: The Funniest Cartoons by Tom Toro

By: Yup

Yup — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:25:41 +0000

You started off with an ad hominem attack and were wrong. You then tried to fire back saying I was wrong….but I wasn’t! Now you are wrong again and strike with another ad hominem fallacy! What do you want? To be the smartest person in the room? You can’t win with semantics alone! Bringing some knowledge to the table would help, especially considering the comment you made about my education! A slight wobble in the axial rotation is not analogous of the complete shifts occuring in magnetic poles! They are far from similar. Thus under the context of the argument I was indeed correct! If you want to win with cheap shots and silliness pick an opponent that doesn’t pack as much of a punch as I! Now THAT was hybris!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:05:33 +0000

You just admitted it shifts. No one said it wobbles around in a chaotic manner. Physics still apply. And you still claim be right. Hybris.

By: Yup

Yup — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:39:55 +0000

No I am not! The Chandler wobble does not shift the axis far from its current position! Meters at most and then returns to a mean position close to the original. Think of a top spinning and then if you tap it a bit it begins to precess and wobble but eventually it corrects itself! If polar motion continued heading west the world would begin spinning on the equator which hasn’t been observed before! Geographical poles remain where they are until a force strong enough can permanently alter them! You have to remember the planet has an angular momentum that tends to correct any deviations like a flywheel stabilizer.

By: EUro

EUro — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:57:33 +0000

You are right. I mistook it with “polar motion”. So, you are still wrong in the end. Climate change amplifies the process btw.

By: Yup

Yup — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 16:22:12 +0000

The geographical poles are the points in which a planets axial rotation meets it’s surface. As in, draw a line down two points on the earth where its angular velocity equals zero. These do not change with precession. Sorry to educate you with my inferior education!