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India is Sinking into Earth's Mantle
Discovery News ^ | Saturday, January 30, 2010 | Michael Reilly (derived from Nature Geoscience)

Posted on 01/31/2010 6:41:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

There’s an immense amount about plate tectonics that’s still a mystery. It’s a very young science and it doesn’t explain many observed geological features/phenomena. While it has revolutionized geology it’s still in its infancy as a field of study.


21 posted on 01/31/2010 7:08:51 PM PST by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Ohmuhgosh...."Global Manteling"? What should we do, what should we do?

Note to Chicken Little: The sky has stopped falling, but now the earth is "manteling".

Note to Algore: fuel up the jet and arrange a summit...thar's work in them thar hills.

Note to the obamaTATOR: Shovel ready work in India, notify the SEIU and ACORN.

Note to normal people: This mantleing stuff has been going on for millions of years, go back to sleep.
22 posted on 01/31/2010 7:08:59 PM PST by FrankR (The ones of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: dfwgator

Not being Canadian, I have no idea.


23 posted on 01/31/2010 7:10:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: chickenlips
I guess this means an end to tech support.

Good one!

24 posted on 01/31/2010 7:11:28 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

He needs to call a World Conference and pass a law limiting only 1/2 of India be permitted to sink into the mantle!


25 posted on 01/31/2010 7:48:41 PM PST by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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To: SunkenCiv

Somehow we must be the cause of Global Colliding. Stop technology now!! We are causing this Continent Change!!

Al Gore, FLY to the Himalayas to save the cashmere goats!!!! It’s all OUR “fault!” Hurry! Get your cameras and go!!


26 posted on 01/31/2010 7:53:00 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: nickcarraway

The extra heat is causing more rocks to melt, softening the larger Eurasian plate into a puddle, allowing the dagger-shaped Indo-Australian plate to cut through it like a hot knife into butter.


27 posted on 01/31/2010 8:25:24 PM PST by James C. Bennett
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To: Redcitizen

There’s more curry in Britain, than in all of India.


28 posted on 01/31/2010 8:25:24 PM PST by James C. Bennett
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To: Bernard Marx

Here I thought the science was settled, the debate was over, nothing more to see, all that is knowable is now known about plate tectonics.

The fact is, we really don’t know jack about anything, and are only scratching the surface and that is how it will always be. The arrogance of so many scientists is mind boggling, with Richard Dawkins being the poster boy for that arrogance. I would include al gore too but he is no scientist, never has been, and never will be.


29 posted on 01/31/2010 9:28:02 PM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hmmm. India sinking into the earth’s core while the rest of the planet is still floating. Didn’t we hear speculation last year about the big atom smasher in Europe leading to a small black hole deep in the earth?

Maybe there really is a Black Hole of Calcutta.


30 posted on 02/01/2010 8:28:39 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: VeniVidiVici

Re-unite Gondwanaland!!!


31 posted on 02/01/2010 8:35:07 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: HerrBlucher
The arrogance of so many scientists is mind boggling

I think you could extend that comment to most of our species. We live on the wrinkled and dynamic surface of a piece of water and rock that's hurtling through an unknown void at unimaginable speed. At any moment the ground we walk and build on can burp molten rock or shimmy with Richter force, destroying us and all our creations. We don't even know where we are yet we endlessly propose universal "solutions" for all things.

The Greeks called it hubris.

32 posted on 02/01/2010 9:18:04 AM PST by Bernard Marx (I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
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