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Huge Underground "Ocean" Found Beneath Asia
National Geographic ^
| 2-27-2007
| Richard A Lovett
Posted on 02/27/2007 3:16:42 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
Guess they found the water table.
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:53:53 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(No stinking peanut butter.)
To: blam
To: blam
I've gotten all sorts of emails asking if this is the water that burst out in Noah's flood," said the leader of the research team, Michael Wysession of Washington University in St. Louis Wow, just when you thought Americans couldn't be dumber about science....
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:12:06 PM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(Never Let a Theocon Near a Textbook. Teach Evolution!)
To: pax_et_bonum
I don't know what is. That's okay, neither does Al Gore. It just hasn't slowed him down in proclaiming it.
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:17:07 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: aft_lizard
if that wouldnt have happened gravity would crush him to a pretty small size Nope, in the center gravity forces would be zero. You would have equal pull in all directions so you would be weightless.
45
posted on
02/27/2007 5:19:35 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: thackney
But getting there is a different story.
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:31:23 PM PST
by
aft_lizard
(born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
To: thackney
Yes, suspended at the gravitational center of the earth, IMO.
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:37:17 PM PST
by
Mr J
(All IMHO.)
To: blam
Huge Underground "Ocean" Found Beneath Asia
"It isn't an ocean."
How about those headline writers?
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:38:35 PM PST
by
Mr J
(All IMHO.)
To: thackney; cogitator; NicknamedBob
But remember the difference between "gravity" ( a force caused the difference in mass above you and below you) and "pressure" the squishing sense of being extruded into rocky crystals like diamonds by a force of 100,000 of tons per sq millimeter by all of the (very heavy) rocks above you.
So, yes, if you could get a protected hollow sphere into the exact center of gravity of the middle of the earth you might be weightless (except for the moon's and sun's pull) but you might have a problem opening the door of your sphere to get out ...
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posted on
02/27/2007 7:21:12 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE; thackney; cogitator; blam; neverdem
Let's hope the crafty Chinee don't try to tap into a new geothermal energy source.
The sudden release of pressure could be, in a word, cataclysmic.
"... the squishing sense of being extruded into rocky crystals like diamonds by a force of 100,000 of tons per sq millimeter ..."
Yeah, I hate when that happens. It can ruin your whole day.
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posted on
02/27/2007 7:47:02 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(You may not grok eating the sandwich, but the sandwich groks being eaten.)
To: Bernard Marx
"In Xanadu did Kublai Khan A stately pleasure dome decree,
Where Alph, the sacred river ran,
Down to a sunless sea..."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
AHEM..
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
51
posted on
02/27/2007 8:13:57 PM PST
by
Experiment 6-2-6
(Admn Mods: tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners.They have pins and dolls..)
To: Experiment 6-2-6
Hmmm, are you a person from Porlock?
You're right -- I was quoting from fallible memory. Now do you feel all better?
To: Bernard Marx
My Paw-Teener could have found it with his witching stick.
To: blam
There is a giant hole underneath the U.S., but nobody has bothered to dig it up yet.
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posted on
02/27/2007 8:33:16 PM PST
by
Nachoman
(Error processing tagline. Abort, Fail, Retry?)
To: blam
related:
Remains of an ancient ocean
by Paul Cooper
26 August 1999
Until 65 million years ago, a great ocean, the Tethys, separated India from Asia. There were no Himalayas and no Tibetan Plateau... A team led by Rob Van der Voo of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan has found signs of this ancient ocean deep beneath the Indian subcontinent... By reconstructing the paths taken by earthquake waves through the Earth, they have created a three-dimensional computer model of the interior of the Earth beneath India and the surrounding area.
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posted on
02/27/2007 10:42:38 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 19, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: metmom; 75thOVI; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; Brujo; ...
Thanks metmom for the ping.
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posted on
02/27/2007 10:45:14 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
We have the big underground Permian Sea in west Texas.
To: blam
The wet zone?
Insert your favorite joke here...
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posted on
02/27/2007 10:55:08 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel-Robert Frost)
To: ValerieTexas
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posted on
02/27/2007 11:07:15 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 19, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SirJohnBarleycorn
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posted on
02/27/2007 11:09:14 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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