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  If you believed the scientists life on earth would stop out of fear!

  Posted by Unknown Member on 18 October 2020 at 4:25 am

  One of the latest theories from a scientist will eventually lead to Portugal becoming a province of Canada! But dont panic just yet or throw away your passport, it’s going to take some time!

  João Duarte, a marine geologist from the Instituto Dom Luiz at the University of Lisbon has presented his theory that the bottom of the techtonic plate off Portugal’s coast seems to be peeling away from its top.

  This action may be providing the necessary spark for one plate to start grinding beneath another in what’s known as a subduction zone, according to his computer simulations.

  If confirmed, the new work would be the first time an oceanic plate has been caught in the act of peeling, and it may mark one of the earliest stages of the Atlantic Ocean shrinking, sending Europe inching toward Canada as predicted by some computer models of tectonic activity.

  “It’s certainly an interesting story,” says the University of Oslo’s Fabio Crameri ,who was not part of the research team but who attended the lecture. Duarte presented some strong arguments, he says, but he cautions that the model needs further testing, not an easy feat when your data comes from a natural process that works at the speed at which fingernails grow.

  “It’s a big statement,” Duarte says of the conclusions, acknowledging that he and his team still have work to do. “Maybe this is not the solution to all the problems. But I think we have something new here.”

  So for 50 years, this guy and his “team” have been paid to study something that has barely moved in those decades, struggles to find proof his theory even exists and calls it computer modelling!

  Just imagine if his team had been put to better use in solving the major issues facing the marine environment, plastics, over fishing, dead zones, coastal pollution and actually solved just one of those problems, the impact would have been enormous on the planet, instead his work on tectonic plates and the wasted money is meaningless.

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