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The Case Against Pangea
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Posted on 04/22/2012 3:53:17 PM PDT by Windflier
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To: Oztrich Boy
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:16:07 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Strategerist
That subduction zones aren't even mentioned in the original screed (which we can easily see through seismic records, and we can actually measure plate movement with GPS) immediately renders his argument a waste of time. Well, well. Another one who spent less than 60 seconds at the site. The author goes into great detail about the theory of subduction zones, but you'd have to cast off your pre-conceived notions and read a bit to discover it.
Say what you will, but what's at that site is irrefutable logic. I can't, and won't dismiss it.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:16:47 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:19:48 PM PDT
by
Amagi
(I challenge Barack Obama to call this Tea Party Patriot a "tea bagger" to my face.)
To: Windflier
continental drift it bunk?
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:19:52 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:20:24 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Windflier
But how could all these rifts continually spread apart
without the Earth growing? Ah, that is the question, isnt it?
I stopped reading there.
During the recent quake in Japan, in some places there was as much as 150 feet of the Pacific plate that was shoved - and shoved hard - under the Asiatic plate.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:20:30 PM PDT
by
djf
(Life's a play, we're actors not authors, and nobody even cared to give us the script!)
To: Windflier
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:22:33 PM PDT
by
Amagi
(I challenge Barack Obama to call this Tea Party Patriot a "tea bagger" to my face.)
To: GeronL
continental drift it bunk? From the author:
"Against this is the current Pangea theory which insists
that the continents float willy, nilly about the Earth, spinning, sliding, bumping, and crashing like bumper cars in a carnival. (Thats a common description
which some geologists are currently backing away from
in small numbers.)"
http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:25:54 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Consider:
I say this: Earth was progressively smaller as we go back in time over 4 5 billion years it grew from a small planetesimal to a planet the size of Mars. and: An aside
.you may fairly ask how this matter can be created. Its created at the plasma core of all planets, moons, and suns by a process that is so common that science has a name for it, pair production! Its how all matter is made from energy.
The mass of Earth is 5.9742 × 1021 metric tons. The mass of Mars is 6.4191 × 1020 metric tons. If the earth has grown by 5.33 x 1021 metric tons created by pair production that means there are 2.67 sextillion tons of antimatter which is somehow kept separate from 3.31 sextillion metric tons of matter. No wonder Obama hates drilling and fracking gas and oil wells. He is just trying to keep the matter and antimatter separate.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:26:20 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: djf
During the recent quake in Japan, in some places there was as much as 150 feet of the Pacific plate that was shoved - and shoved hard - under the Asiatic plate. I can see how that could happen, given the force of the earthquake, though I don't see that it's incompatible with the author's base theory.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:28:11 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Only a mental midget would buy this. And no, I didn’t waste my time with the videos either.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:28:18 PM PDT
by
CalvaryJohn
(What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
To: Windflier
We
I
argue that, that this outer crust originally covered the whole of a smaller Earth and the Earth sphere grew. The outer crust, therefore, had to crack and spread to accommodate a growing Earth
which
it apparently did.So I guess the earth must be puffing up like a ballon then.
They'd better be careful when they drill new oil wells. They might pop the bubble and the earth would collapse back down to a sphere the size of the Moon.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:28:43 PM PDT
by
Wissa
(Gone Galt)
To: KarlInOhio
I see you’re at least processing the guy’s theory with some degree of analysis, Karl. Appreciate you trying to keep it light-hearted.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:31:42 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: KarlInOhio
Its created at the plasma core of all planets, moons, and suns by a process that is so common that science has a name for it, pair production! Its how all matter is made from energy.
Well it makes as much sense as the FReeper who tried to tell me that the sun is fueled by all the comets and dust it collects like a vacuum cleaner.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:31:56 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: CalvaryJohn
Only a mental midget would buy this. And no, I didnt waste my time with the videos either. In other words, "Don't confuse me with facts, my mind's already made up!"
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:33:30 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Obama just doesn't want us discovering his true birthplace.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:34:46 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Windflier
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:38:29 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: All
I had a feeling when I posted this, that I’d be opening myself up to a lot of wisecracks, and that’s ok. I’ve got the hide for it ;-)
I just want to know, though...has anyone taken the time to watch the videos at the site? You can go through all fifteen of them in about half an hour, and trust me, they are compelling.
Anyone?
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:41:36 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Chode
I understand, Chode. I had the same question, but I also understand that in a system as large as an entire planetary crust, there are going to be forces of all types exerted in various locales.
I don’t think it debunks the guy’s entire theory.
Good observation, though.
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posted on
04/22/2012 4:46:01 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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