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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
To oversimplify: there was not a demonstrable process that could explain the movement of huge sheets of solid rock, that's where the reluctance came from. It wasn't until the ocean floor mapping of the 60s that we understood the non-random nature earthquakes and the existence of mid-ocean ridges that lead the scientific community to accept "seafloor spreading" as the mechanism of Alfred Wegener's proposed continental drift.
Well now I am hella curious: What did they think caused earthquakes before the 60s? π€
Premarital sex
You kid but, at least in the US, weβre going to be perpetually a week away from returning to that time for the next 3 years and change - best case scenario.
Poseidon.
Just pointing, but people had been speculating about tectonic plates for a really long time. A century before geologists finally allowed one of them to point it and accepted looking into it, fringe scientists already had an overwhelming amount of evidence.
This scene was overheard in a 1950s pediatrician's office, who then offered the soft-pack of filterless "toasted" smokes to the 8yr old and her mother.
this fact brought to you by the delicious relaxing taste of Daisy Duke Cigarettes.
if you want a nuke, smoke a Daisy Duke!
I figure they first needed Inge Lehmann to figure out that there was an inner core, outer core, and mantle which she didn't do until 1933, eight years after she started doing seismology. And it took three years before she published it which brings us to 1936. It was accepted fairly quickly but then came the war. And after the war seismology was really big on listening to nukes. Sixties makes sense.
Inge Lehmann - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann
"Take those lead paint chips out of your mouth! .... wipes his face with some asbestos .... now here mommy will show you how to make smoke rings ... cough, cough, hack, hack, wheeeeeeeze"
Only if the kid was overweight, though