Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth

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I love Sott. Read it every day. Have for years. I have read Pierre and Laura's book, and enjoyed it very much. Also read The Wave and the other two Secret History books. Enjoyed them very much also. Read the forum, some transcripts, lots of other stuff that makes me really like the information offered here.

I do not argue with the electric universe theory. I don't know enough about it either way. It does make a lot of sense. It also makes sense that macrocosmic forces have huge effects on planets, including ours. So, the idea of an electric universe dong to earth what is schematically depicted at the end of the video is not shocking. It makes very good sense.

I am also an expert geotechnical engineer. Have been for 20 years. 22 if you count graduate school at VA Tech, widely considered to be among the best geotechnical graduate programs, worldwide (had to take two years of physics while there). I have investigated sinkholes and landslides throughout my career, and it is a very rare discipline that I practice. In the entire metropolitan DC area where I live and practice, there are only a few of us who do this sort of thing. There's not much of a market for geotechnical ambulance-chasers, but at least I get to play in a huge sandbox.

I have seen no uptick in my workload over the last five years related to sinkholes. That could be unique to this geological setting, but I doubt it given the proximity to many geologic formations where sinkholes can form from time to time. Not far to the northwest there is a sizable karst region. They have engineering conferences every few years to talk about case-histories and such. It is not a new or expanding problem there, nor is it here in the DC area. Due to the size of the market, had there been, trust me I would be involved in some way.

I am familiar with one of the videos shown of the collapse in Maryland, and being aware of the market I serve, I understand it was not in the least caused by a sinkhole. It was an old, poorly-designed retaining wall, and as happens all the time, the soil eventually pushed the wall over in a dramatic way, but the wall was slowly creeping that way since the minute it was completed. It was not unusual or unprecedented in any way. These things happen from time to time as infrastructure comes to the end of it's useful life.

Another odd image from the video is from a recent article that I read on Sott. Or maybe it was a Quantum Quirk photo of a large, open-pit mine situated right next to the mining town. I believe it was in Siberia. As a specialist in heavy earthwork, I am naturally drawn to such stories and images. That one left an imprint. So when I saw it in the video, along with the Maryland collapse, I had to cry foul. That image in the video is of a hole dug in the ground by men. It is not of a sinkhole. So why is it in the video?

Nevertheless, I am no denier of geomorphic processes being connected to larger earth changes. I just happen to know this topic, at least the symptoms of it if not the electric-universe-inspired cause, better than anyone other than fellow geotechnical engineers who specialize in this sort of thing. Just check out my screen-name: geomo.

So understand my opinion is that this video, while nicely produced, looks like a biased presentation in favor of a hypothesis that is credible yet untested as far as I know. As someone with the expertise to connect these cosmic processes to what we see at ground-level and maybe help to mitigate risks to the community, I would like to know more.

timmy and mike

Timothy and Mike look like very cool new age types however humans do have all to do with this and its called sin.Forget about all the cosmos talk this is wormwood coming so get educated from all historical records.

Solar activity causes earth quakes.

This link;

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supports the premise that earth movements are caused electrically by solar activity. Which supports the thesis that th origin of sinkholes is electrical.

Solar activity causes earth quakes.

The article linked states; "Fluctuation in the density of electrons and other electrically-charged particles in the ionosphere has been observed, and huge signal has been detected many times before large magnitude earthquakes strike."

Format?

I found the background noise in the video so irritating I could listen to more than a minute let alone finish it.

The Earth

And yet it grows

Very simple and insteresting explanation for something that has been lacking a decent explanation for a while.

Sinkholes are old and regular in FL

Sinkholes are old and regular in FL

I agree that sinkholes are increasingly appearing in the WORLD, but I've lived in Florida over 50 years of my life, and I'd estimate it's run a constant, long term average of a newsworthy sinkhole of 2.5 per year, for that time.

(This is because we're on top of a limestone cavern, and droughts (which are but fluctuations in water levels) can far more easily instigate a sinkhole than typical bedrock, due to limestone's porosity and relatively weak lateral/tensile strength. (I.e., when water levels sink, it loses a goodly bit of its support, and a weak part gives way, and voila! a sinkhole.

(There's a great one to visit NE of gainesville - X's "Sink." (Carson's?) Also, in Winter Park, we have Lake Rose named for the lady whose home and several Porsches were swallowed by a sinkhole.)

R.C.

Not buying the 'electric universe'

There's no way that theory 'explains' the appearance of sinkholes. For one, if the Earth sped up and slowed down with enough speed to ACTUALLY 'deform' the planet, you would have clocks not keeping time properly, satellites would start dropping out of the sky from speed differential, tides would be crazy, the MOON would no longer be 'tidelocked' and actually start moving.... there's a whole host of reasons the 'explanation' doesn't fit. As for sinkholes becoming more common... I try to explain these and other 'odd' occurrences people seem to think are on the rise like animal die offs (not a great example), shooting stars (meteorites) and such comes down to the fact that people are FAR more connected via the web and media so all these things get reported and recorded a heck of a lot more than even 20 years ago where it normally wouldn't have even ranked above local news! plus people have cameras EVERYWHERE now and before.... if there's no picture, it didn't happen!
Also, a bunch of the pics in that video were of fissures and floods, not sinkholes. Fissures follow tectonic activity and are in a line, not open pit like sinkholes and flooding is pretty self explanatory....

order of magnitude?

Interesting explanations.
What I am missing are some quantitative plausibility checks between cause and effect:
For example, how much delta in solar activity can cause a delta in the earth's rotational speed?
With how much delay, due to inertia in the earth rotation?
More trivially, a slowdown in earth rotation should cause all our clocks to run faster (except sundials :). How much faster until we can measure the slowdown? nanoseconds per day?

Clocks that run faster, really?

Lol, as Asino contemplates clocks that run faster! Never taking into account that time keeping pieces are mechanical or digital devices that measure relatively to themselves.

Asino if you want to measure time speeding up in relation to the earth slowing down you would do so by calibrating your time piece to a near earth object such as a celestial body.

Then you would observe your clock running faster...

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do you think that every time a certain, predictable cosmic event occurs, the earth expands. which is occurring now. mid-atlantic ridge earthquakes. siberian gas explosions. sinkholes. landslides. is that why they frack certain areas. to release the gas and save their subterranean chambers. will earth grow to eventually become a gas giant like neptune and saturn? or will we fail and become like mars. are we approaching the sun in a cyclical motion. is that why the earth expands. or is an unseen star/planet approaching us making us expand.

Relax people, it's a theory. None of us really know for sure what causes earth phenomena. At one time, the prevailing "knowledge" said the earth was flat and those who said the earth was not flat were considered heretic. When Einstein first proposed his "relativity theor y" most people had no clue what he was talking about. Those who had some idea of his theory still needed more data, which is still ongoing. Some of the arguments on here regarding the fallacy makes even less sense. It amazes me how little thought goes into trying to "disprove" the theory without any backup, which they state as to why they don't like the theory. That is like the pot calling the kettle black. It's an interesting theory, nothing more at this time. But with further study and more results, who knows. No sense in attacking unless you have provable stats yourself. Listen and learn... a lot of our inventions have evolved over time, taking an idea to new applications.

Are we certain that drilling/fracking for gas and oil have not been the cause of sinkholes?

A deep sinkhole has formed near a Russian diamond mining town... Police are looking in to it.

and then you correlate the number of meteors at AMS....same start year...hahahahahahahaha