Gyalgatine t1_iqznmdp wrote on October 4, 2022 at 7:39 AM Reply to comment by gwaydms in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog That's... not exactly wrong. Continental crusts ARE significantly thicker than oceanic crusts. You can kind of think of them like icebreaking ships drifting through ice sheets. https://cdn.britannica.com/83/99283-050-AEC2FFB6/cross-section-layers-Earth-mantle-crust.jpg Permalink Parent 13
Gyalgatine t1_iqznmdp wrote
Reply to comment by gwaydms in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
That's... not exactly wrong. Continental crusts ARE significantly thicker than oceanic crusts. You can kind of think of them like icebreaking ships drifting through ice sheets.
https://cdn.britannica.com/83/99283-050-AEC2FFB6/cross-section-layers-Earth-mantle-crust.jpg