Geologists Have Closely Analyzed Two Bizarre 'Blobs' Detected Deep Inside Earth

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 11 MARCH 2022 | CARLY CASSELLA

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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[Red Badger]

Next they’ll tell us there are nine layers.......................

[BenLurkin]

I’m guessing these are a good thing for life on Earth.

[SunkenCiv]

Turtles all the way down.

[SunkenCiv]

There are places one can go on Earth to weigh a little less, so, not a bad outcome. Pass the pizza. :^)

[Scrambler Bob]

I am thinking Lake of Fire.

[Fai Mao]

What about the remake with Christian rockers Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/

[SunkenCiv]

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[Monkey Face]

I’m not saying it was aliens, but me and Steve McQueen think it was aliens.

‘Face

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[tet68]

Omg. We live on the outside of a huge lava lamp!!!

[Fai Mao]

Sorry wrong film
This is correct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware!_The_Blob

[Red Badger]

Essentially......................

[Boogieman]

It’s a battle of buoyancy vs gravity... two opposing forces that all matter on the planet seeks an equilibrium point between. That one blob is “unstable” means that it has not reached a stable equilibrium between the two and that is why it oscillates in height/depth. It may be oscillating towards an eventual equilibrium point, where it will become stable, or it may continue oscillating forever if the conditions keep changing so that it can’t balance out those two forces at any particular resting point.

[z3n]

"It’s a battle of buoyancy vs gravity... " - Boogieman

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[BatGuano]

Geologists can’t fool me.

Those blobs are caramel with M&Ms scattered about!

[roving]

Hades?

[Red Badger]

And Purgatory..................

[PeterPrinciple]

1. How do you train a student in “research” without doing “research” even “bad research” is better then no “research” or so its thought.

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bad research is worse than nothing. You just trained them to do bad research.

[PeterPrinciple]

Should such a system be replaced? Yes ! But with what?

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Good question, worthy of much thinking.

What does history teach us?

Patrons. Many basic researchers had a patron, an individual who believed in the research and supported it. Personal relationship and accountability. It was a good idea looking for money, not abundant money looking for any idea.

Real problems. capitalism seeking money and paying paying for research to get it done.

Common threads: passion, philosophy of seeking the truth, individuals, not government.

There is a role for government in research but it is always the individual, personal responsibility, personal risk.

Final Answer: I don’t know. The Invisible Hand is always at work.