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Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest

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  1. ucyo · · focus · HN ↗
    This is such a nice topic for visualisations, but not a single drawing or visual explanation. That’s unfortunate. The main pic is impressive but without context it’s disappointing a bit
    1. margalabargala · · focus · HN ↗
      The main pic is AI generated, according to the credit caption.
    2. gus_massa · · focus · HN ↗
      The main pict is generated by AI and a misleading hallucination, or as we use to call it "totally wrong".

      I&#x27;m not a geologist, so I have to take a few guess to read the main paper <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;sciadv.ady8347" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;sciadv.ady8347

      &lt;IIUC&gt;

      When the slab in the subsection one goes under another slab, it does not get destroyed, but goes down quite intact. But from time to time (every few million years?) a part split. See figure 8 D. So the split is already covered with a huge layer of soil (like 10kn?) and above that a swallow sea (like .1km). Note also that they split is a very different way

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      So the main graphic of the press article is wrong in many aspects.

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      1. dylan604 · · focus · HN ↗
        or as we use to call it artist rendering. Artistic visualizations have been part of articles long before generative AI came along.
        1. gus_massa · · focus · HN ↗
          I agree, a lot of them were horrible too.
    3. sfink · · focus · HN ↗
      The main pic makes absolutely zero sense. The sides are tilted upwards, so clearly they were moving towards each other. But there&#x27;s a big gap, so clearly they&#x27;re moving away from each other. I was mentally sketching out a scenario where it was first one then the other, until I realized it was just AI slop.
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