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Originally posted by edge:
What I find even more interesting is how the rate of drift suddenly dropped to a more sedate cm/yr pace just before humans began to observe and navigate the oceans. Kind of the same way that the speed of light suddenly stopped decreasing in the 1960's when we began to be able to get accurate measurements. These were just lucky coincidences, I guess.
It's also like the Mormon prophet "coincidentally" getting a commandment from God that they should stop having multiple wives right before it was going to be declared illegal in Utah.
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