To: FrogMom
I can’t keep my soup hot for more than a couple of hours in a thermos that some genius designed. This planet that is billions and billions of years old still keeps spouting red hot lava and readjusting its girdle. What gives?
8 posted on
03/14/2011 10:26:54 AM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
“I can’t keep my soup hot for more than a couple of hours in a thermos that some genius designed. This planet that is billions and billions of years old still keeps spouting red hot lava and readjusting its girdle. What gives?”
In part - Tidal forces.
31 posted on
03/14/2011 10:56:01 AM PDT by
Pikachu_Dad
(Impeach Sen Quinn)
To: blueunicorn6
This planet that is billions and billions of years old still keeps spouting red hot lava and readjusting its girdle. What gives?
Well, for starters, what gives is this planet is not billions and billions of years old...
To: blueunicorn6
This planet that is billions and billions of years old still keeps spouting red hot lava and readjusting its girdle. What gives?
Be very happy that it does, without that convection process in the core we lose our magnetic field and DIE, like Mars.
53 posted on
03/14/2011 11:37:47 AM PDT by
battousai
(Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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