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Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core
- wasting_time 10mo agohttps://archive.is/jTCRB https://archive.is/jTCRB
- kasperni 10mo agoShe is not a household name in Denmark. But we do have a big mural of her, here in Copenhagen [1]. [1] https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/998/811/377/834/279/original/7367aadd71c161f2.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/99...
- nosianu 10mo agoI had to look twice, and then check Wikipedia, when I saw "1888-1993" there. * 13. Mai 1888 in Kopenhagen † 21. Februar 1993 in Kopenhagen That's 104 years, 9 months, and 8 days!
- slu 10mo agoGoogle Street View link showing the murial: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nfSzrb3CFPKowZ4p9?g_st=ac https://maps.app.goo.gl/nfSzrb3CFPKowZ4p9?g_st=ac
- perigrin 10mo agoAll of modern geology stands upon her work.
- tekla 10mo agoShe was hardly overlooked, she won many honours for her work during her time. > This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
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- pfdietz 10mo ago> It explained how the Earth generates the magnetic field that protects the planet from cosmic radiation, Our protection from cosmic radiation is mostly due to Earth's thick atmosphere, not its magnetic field.
- nobodyandproud 10mo agoI don’t see any problems with the quote.
- nephihaha 10mo agoThe magnetic field deflects particles from the Solar Wind, whereas the atmosphere blocks a lot of the radiation as I understand it.
- pfdietz 10mo agoThe solar wind != cosmic radiation.
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- Qem 10mo agoWithout magnetic fields, the solar wind strips away atmospheres, like what happened to Mars.
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