EP 058 Appalachia's Hidden History | Ancient Mountains as Engineered Infrastructure

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Beneath the headlines, behind
the timelines, there is a

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story no one wants you to find.

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Welcome to some unapproved thinking, where
forgotten truths, buried patterns, and

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invisible systems rise to the surface.

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You weren't crazy.

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You were just early.

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Let's begin.

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So today we're diving into
something really fascinating.

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Appalachia, often seen as just a
quaint mountain range, is actually

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being suggested as a dormant
terraforming biological superstructure

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How mind-boggling is that?

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I mean, it sounds like something
out of a sci-fi novel, right?

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But to think that these ancient
mountains might have more

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significance than anyone has realized.

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So what's the geological evidence
pointing us toward this conclusion?

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Let's explore that.

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The Appalachian Mountains are three
hundred and eighty million years

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old, and they're not behaving like
something that old should behave.

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When you look at a map of them, your
brain sees geology, layered rock, mineral

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deposits, the kind of thing you read
about in a textbook and forget by lunch.

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But what if that's exactly
what someone wanted you to see?

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The Appalachian range doesn't
behave like other mountain systems.

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That's the first crack
in the official story.

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This is some unapproved thinking.

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Every major mountain range on Earth
follows a predictable pattern.

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The Himalayas are still growing.

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They rise about half an inch every year.

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The Rockies are collapsing
inward at a measurable rate.

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The Alps are doing the same.

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They're young, geologically
speaking, violent and active.

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They're still arguing with the
Earth about where they belong.

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But the Appalachians, they're the
oldest mountain range on the North

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American continent, three hundred
and eighty million years old, and

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they didn't always look like this.

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Back when Pangea was still assembling,
when the African plate collided with North

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America during what geologists call the
Alleghenian Orogeny, these mountains were

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Himalayan in scale, massive, violent.

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Then they quieted, and they stayed quiet
for reasons no one has fully explained.

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Here's what mainstream geology tells you.

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Mountains as ancient as these
should have eroded down to nubbins.

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They should be rounded,
exhausted, barely there.

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The Appalachians should
effectively look like worn teeth.

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Instead, they rise with geometric
precision, parallel ridges, symmetrical

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valleys, the kind of uniformity
that makes geologists uncomfortable

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when you point it out directly.

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In twenty nineteen, a geological survey
out of a university you've probably

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never heard of found something peculiar
in the subsurface imaging of the

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range deep beneath the mountains, and
we're talking thousands of feet down.

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There were crystalline structures that
didn't match the surrounding bedrock.

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Not caves, not mineral veins,
structures, geometric, repeating.

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The paper was published,
then it was quietly archived.

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The lead researcher took a position
at a different institution, different

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state, different funding source entirely.

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The Appalachian range runs for over
two thousand miles from Newfoundland

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in the north down through the
spine of the eastern United States,

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past Mount Mitchell, the highest
peak east of the Mississippi, all

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the way to Alabama in the south.

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The Appalachian Trail follows this same
corridor, more than two thousand miles

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of footpath cutting directly through what
I'm going to argue is the most significant

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geological anomaly on the continent.

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Millions of hikers walk it every year.

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They just don't know
what they're walking on.

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The range cuts through multiple
continental plates, multiple

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climate zones, multiple eras of
geological time, and yet it maintains

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structural coherence that defies
the chaos of tectonic activity.

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That's not luck.

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That's not accident.

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That's engineering.

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Consider what a terraforming machine
or, mm, something engineered to function

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like one would need to accomplish.

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You'd need to reshape continental
plates without triggering

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catastrophic earthquakes.

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You'd need to work over geological
timescales, millennia, not decades.

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You'd need to anchor itself to something
stable, something deep in the Earth's

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crust that wouldn't move regardless
of surface chaos, and you'd need to

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do it quietly enough that the beings
living on the surface never realized

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they were living on the machinery.

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The Appalachian range has remained
structurally stable for three

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hundred and eighty million years.

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No major volcanic activity, no sudden
shifts, no drama, just perfect, patient,

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mathematical growth and adjustment.

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That's not the behavior of
a natural mountain system.

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That's the behavior of something
being, uh, m-m-maintained.

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Look at the mineral composition.

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The range contains some of the oldest
exposed rock on Earth, rock that

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should have been buried, eroded, mixed
with younger geological material.

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Instead, it's preserved in a kind
of perfect stratification, like a

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library, like a record, like something
that was organized deliberately

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and then protected from the chaos
of normal geological processes.

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Coal, iron, copper, rare earth elements
in concentrations that shouldn't

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exist naturally in such proximity.

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Geologists call this fortunate geology,
convenient, lucky, the kind of word they

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use when they don't wanna say impossible.

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But here's where it gets darker.

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The indigenous peoples of
Appalachia knew something.

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The Cherokee called the mountains
Tsakonage, the land of blue smoke.

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They built their mother town, Kituhwa,
in the shadow of these ranges.

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Clingmans Dome, one of the highest
points in the entire range, sits at the

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heart of what the Cherokee considered
sacred territory, a place where the

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boundary between the physical world and
whatever lies beneath it was thinnest.

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The Shawnee knew them as places where
you didn't dig below certain depths.

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The oral histories, the ones that
survived colonization and the forced

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displacement of the Trail of Tears,
speak of the sleeping giant underneath,

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not metaphorically, literally.

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Stories of ancestors who went too
deep into caves and found things that

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shouldn't be there, found evidence
of intentional structure, intentional

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design When European colonizers
arrived, they were primarily interested

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in extraction: coal, metals, timber,
resources that required digging.

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And what happened when they
started digging in earnest?

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When the Industrial
Revolution hit Appalachia?

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Look at the dates.

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The first major coal mining boom, 1830s.

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Then what?

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Geological instability, mine collapses
that defied explanation, sinkholes that

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swallowed entire sections of landscape,
whole towns that simply fell inward

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as though the ground beneath them
had been hollowed out deliberately.

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The official explanation: natural
subsidence, underground water

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erosion, weak geological structures.

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But the pattern wasn't random.

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The collapses happened in specific
locations, specific depths, specific

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geological formations, as though
something beneath the surface was

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responding, adjusting, correcting.

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What if the mountain range
has a defensive mechanism?

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What if the deeper structures,
the ones that maintain the range's

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impossible stability, have a
threshold, a point beyond which

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they actively reject intrusion?

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The Cherokee knew not to dig.

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The colonizers didn't listen,
and the mountain responded.

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Between 1900 and 1950, Appalachian
mining regions experienced more

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geological catastrophes per capita
than anywhere else on Earth.

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Not just accidents, spontaneous collapses,
methane eruptions that shouldn't

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have happened, flooding from water
sources that had no geological origin.

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The worst of these was the Monongah
Mining Disaster of 1907, an explosion

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in West Virginia that killed at
least three hundred and sixty-two

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miners, making it the deadliest
mining disaster in American history.

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The official cause: fire damp ignition.

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But the geological behavior surrounding
Monongah in the weeks before the

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disaster didn't match the standard
conditions for a fire damp event.

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Pressure readings were wrong.

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Gas concentrations were inconsistent.

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Something beneath the surface had
been building, and then it released.

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The United Mine Workers, the union
that formed in direct response

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to these disasters, kept records
of anomalous geological events

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that the mining companies quietly
buried alongside their workers.

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The region developed a reputation:
dangerous, unpredictable, cursed.

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But curse is just what you call
engineering you don't understand.

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The real evidence sits in plain sight.

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The Appalachian range maintains
gravitational anomalies, slight ones.

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According to Bouguer gravity surveys, the
same methodology used by the United States

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Geological Survey to map subsurface mass
distributions, the readings beneath the

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range don't match the visible geology.

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In other words, there's more
down there than the official

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geological models, uh, account for.

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There's something making it heavy
And consider the energy patterns.

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The Earth's magnetic field
has weak spots, anomalies,

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deviations from what we'd expect.

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The Appalachian region has some of the
strongest anomalies in North America.

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The United States Geological Survey
has maps of this public information,

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aeromagnetic survey data available
to anyone who looks for it.

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No conspiracy needed, just overlooked.

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The magnetic disturbance pattern,
including what researchers call the New

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York-Alabama Lineament, matches almost
perfectly the structural pattern of

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the underground crystalline formations,
as though something electromagnetic

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is running through the depths of that
mountain range, as though it's powered.

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Now, here's the part where
consensus reality cracks completely.

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If the Appalachian range is or was
engineered to function as something like

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a terraforming machine, it's not ours.

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Not anymore.

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Not if it's three hundred
and eighty million years old.

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That means it predates not just human
civilization, but human existence.

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It predates the species, the mechanisms
of whoever built this, whoever

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engineered a mountain range to slowly
reshape the North American continent.

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They've been running for longer than
humanity has been conscious, and we've

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been living on top of it the entire time.

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The indigenous peoples understood this.

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They treated the mountains with respect.

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They understood there were rules,
rules about how deep you could dig,

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rules about what you could take,
rules about acknowledging the presence

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of something vast and patient and
ultimately indifferent to human need.

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The colonizers didn't know the rules.

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They broke them, and the mountain
slowly, methodically, according to

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its own timescale, began to correct.

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But here's what keeps geologists up at
night, though they won't say it publicly.

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The corrections have
been getting stronger.

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The subsidence events in Appalachia have
accelerated over the last seventy years.

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The magnetic anomalies have intensified.

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In twenty fourteen, instruments detected
something in the crust beneath the range,

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something that looked like increased
activity, a shift in whatever energetic

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processes run through those crystalline
structures, something waking up.

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That's not metaphorical language.

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That's what the data suggests, and it
suggests it's getting more responsive.

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The trap you're in is this: If you
accept that the Appalachian range is

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a machine or something engineered to
function like one, then you've accepted

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that human civilization exists at the
sufferance of something we don't control

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and don't fully understand, something
that was here before us, something that

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might have its own agenda, and you have
to reconcile that with everything you

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thought you knew about geology, about
history, about your place in the world.

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If you reject it, well then, you
have to explain the anomalies.

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You have to explain the impossible
stability, the perfect geometric

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precision, the bouge gravity readings
that don't add up, the consistent

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pattern of defensive collapses
whenever humans dig too deep.

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You have to explain why indigenous
peoples across multiple cultures,

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Cherokee, Shawnee, and others
independently developed the same warnings.

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You have to explain why the deadliest
mining disasters in American history

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clustered in this one specific range.

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You have to explain it all as coincidence,
as luck, as the universe being randomly

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generous to one particular mountain range
while obeying rules everywhere else.

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The mountain is still there, still
running, still adjusting, still

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responding to intrusion with the
patience of something measured in

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geological time, and you're living on
it, walking across it, breathing its air.

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Millions of people hike the Appalachian
Trail every year, walking the Blue Ridge

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Parkway, climbing to Clingmans Dome,
visiting the Great Smoky Mountains, and

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they have no idea what they're visiting.

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The real question isn't whether
the Appalachian range is a machine.

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The real question is, what happens
when it decides we're digging too deep?

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When the mountain corrects,
there's nowhere left to run.

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This has been Some Unapproved Thinking.

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If this story didn't sit
right with you, good.

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You're not here to be comforted.

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You're here to see what others overlook.

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