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superbly well-reasoned and heavily-researched theories, if they had the Earth rotating in the right direction in their aniimation.
By Absofsteel 1225727521 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHave there ever been fossils found down there? just curious
By McConsumer 1243725479 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove**sweet home albama** i love this song
By barkota 1229276623 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeforgot to mention.....the earth's core is actually filed with creamy nougat. (I'm not supposed to be even telling you this....we geologists had hoped to keep this to ourselves and have a feast, after our super-secret robot clones destroy the rest of you---remember....mums the word....good thing no one reads the internet these days)
By greenerman 1228773912 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveHa! This is great comedy! I will show it to my geology class next semester when I teach the plate tectonics part. Floating "willy nilly"? Not quite. The interior of the earth beneath the rigid lithosphere is plastic and mobile. Plate movements are measurable today, while the "inflating earth" is not. No subduction? Subduction zones are found on earth today, forming the deep oceanic trenches and explaining the chains of volcanoes related to them. Conspiracy? Over 100 years? HA! Scientists in the 1960s were convinced that continents did not move. Yet the evidence for plate tectonics accumulated, and the geologists all changed their views, virtually over night. What possible motivation would there be for "holding back" this new "idea?" I do hope all you people who believe in this work of comedy will sign up for a basic geology class. You are welcome in mine! Keep laughing--it's good for your health. If you like this bit, I also recommend anything from The Onion website.
By greenerman 1228773655 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeما شاء الله العرب شي يرفع الراس ولا تعليق ولا كلمة سكوت او امسح وانسى .. روحوا دوروا على فضيحة اخلاقيه تسبوا فيها على بعض وتهتكوا أعراض بعض .. الله يهديكم
By AbuSafi 1227549453 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveFood for thought, I like this. It makes sense we just need a little more info to connect all the dots.
By Lone Wolf Here 1226452461 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI am still confused...! Does it mean earth is growing in diameter... or what?
OR growing in terms of in absence of water that earth is growing, well obviously if we suck out all the water from the earth there will be all land... isnt it?
While the thories of sub-atomic particles, astronomy, and geology may change do to this concept, Newtonian physics would remain the same. MASS and size are two different, and unrelated, things. The density of Saturn(its specific gravity) is less than one (this means it would float on water), yet its gravity is so strong, an Earthling couldn't standup. What of the water? Snowball Earth suggests that enough water could be held on the land. However the expanding Earth theory fails to explain the "Ring of Fire." Subduction does. All in all, we (the human race) should remain open minded to new theories, for after all, the ancients were confident that the Earth was FLAT! Our logic is no more flawless than theirs.
By Ducgreen 1226079312 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveSmaller means spins faster, so based on this theory the earth is slowying down??? sure it is, but cause of fricction of air and water, but beside this fact this theory says earth is lot smaller than today, and spins lots faster too? nosense...
By bird72 1225757406 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveInteresting theory but I have one question. assuming this is correct where did all that water come from? and why?
By jinxtheclown 1225753597 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveA. Genesis 1:7-And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
or
B. The Great Flood
pick one.
Ever see what happens when you burn magnesium? This tiny piece produces a much less dense looking material like a snake.. It coils and twirls outwards and ends up a much larger ie:taking up more room than it did initially.
I believe its plausible that the core/magma could be made of condensed heavy materials and therefore would explain why its such a slow release in these relatively small cracks from which the magma and other material escapes.. We already know there is a lot of pressure in there. Look at volcanoes.. enough pressure being released to explode tons of material and gasses into the air.. Perhaps as material fills in the ever growing cracks a lot of gasses are left in its stead?
Just a thought or two on the subject..
not enough information here to either accept or dismiss this theory. however i dont see the conspiracy? ther would be no point in hideing this, in fact his is nobel pice prize wining material if true...thats why i am inclinde to say its wrong.
By stalpu87 1225734761 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeaccurate comment
By MosesBlack 1225921854 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is pretty funny. He actually claims the plates dont move while conceding in the same speech that they are floating on magma. It almost sounds convincing though. Is this onion news?
By Russoncape 1225703564 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveI like Sea Floor Spreading better than Space Dust theory. How about an idea that the Earth's core is made of compressed energy that is decompressing slowly thus expanding the Earth slowly?
By lordezil 1225703194 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is called Sea Floor Spreading, magma from the core pushed out along plates in the sea, extremely slow, the earth begings to grow over millions of years.
Just look up sea floor spreading.
Why did (s p i c e s) get censored???
By Hunkey 1225689906 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveBecause s.p.ic is a racial slur that the system automatically fishes out.
But, it used to not filter fagass. If you can read it, I guess it still doesn't.
thats pretty cool .. and i like it .. since the universe is supposed to be expanding constantly .. why shouldnt the earth do the same. .. i mean if we place a rubber band between our fingers.. finger=universe, rubber band=earth/planets .. then when we seperate our fingers the rubber band also grows .. meaning the planets GROW or EXPAND :)
I really like the theory because it spices up the slightly boring class of physics..
Hunkey
The beginning of your word spells s p i c, which is a derogatory term against someone from Mexico.
By just4today 1226027052 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThis is a crazy idea I would have never thought about. But here is the BIG problem with what you are saying. Where does the extra mass come from? Better yet where did the water come from? Another thing..... Gravity and cooling of the core. Both of those are working against a growing of the Earth theory. We would have to be taking on a huge amount of material all the time to support this theory. But the way this was shown it's that the Earth is growing from the inside out at the same rate all over the globe like putting air in a balloon. Again..... where is the mass coming from that would be filling the balloon? I think this ones a bit off.
By jeff3230 1225689697 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewell is it at all posible that the new ground is coming from deep within the earth and hollowing the earth our a bit? jusy trowing that out there and as for the water idk but i belive pangera was covered in swamp and marsh so that could be the anwere =S
By TICKET NUMAN 1225685186 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveIf the Earth is growing, where is the extra mass coming from? If it's space dust, there must be a heck of a lot of dust falling all the time! This is something that should be fairly easy to detect.
This is an entertaining theory, but there seems to be no evidence to support it.
if the Earth was smaller before, and all continents were together, then where is the huge amount of water in the ocean today come from?
Your theory is very easy to be tested: studying rock at the edge of today's continents should reveal that they match between continents. But I don't think that has ever been the case.
studies have produced materials including stones and some plant and fossil materials that DO in fact match up with their corresponding coastlines, with the most notable being the east coast of south america and the west coast of africa.
As to the question of mass, well you have to consider density in that equation... magma is considerably more dense than igneous rocks. Take pumice for example, which is less dense than water is (pumice floats). It's not inconceivable to think that as the core releases material to the surface that that material expands and takes on less density, which could easily account for the very (relatively speaking) small change in the size of the planet as a whole.
This theory easily fits into what we currently know of planetary physics, although it assumes that the earth is cooling a small amount as the expansion occurs.
oh yeah, and the water... almost forgot... most fresh water reserves are located underground. over 90% of the planet gets it's fresh water supplies from those sources.
By aelwero_too 1225762538 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removefor a fact, that the Earth is bombarded with space dust on a daily basis. i have known this since second grade.
By Jneutron 1225661583 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeyou are now in the third grade?
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