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2007-03-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2007-03-05 15:55|| || Front Page|| [11142 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gaea is taking care of us, the sea level will be kept constant no matter how much global warming there is, the water just runs out at the bottom. It really is "turtles all the way down."

In our favored version, an Eastern guru affirms that the earth is supported on the back of a tiger. When asked what supports the tiger, he says it stands upon an elephant; and when asked what supports the elephant he says it is a giant turtle. When asked, finally, what supports the giant turtle, he is briefly taken aback, but quickly replies "Ah, after that it is turtles all the way down."

-- Justice Scalia, 2006

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-03-05 16:55|| 2007-03-05 16:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Think we've found the spot to dispose of those spent nuclear rods.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-05 17:14|| 2007-03-05 17:14|| Front Page Top

#3 The outer diameter of the mantle is a thousand degrees farenheit.

The inner diameter is 3700 farenheiht.

These scientists punch a hole in that stuff, we may have a volcano on our hands. A new Hawaii may develope.

They sure better know what they are about to do down there while punching holes.

Posted by Hupack Elmereter5635 2007-03-05 17:27|| 2007-03-05 17:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Hupack Elmereter said: #3 The outer diameter of the mantle is a thousand degrees farenheit.

The inner diameter is 3700 farenheiht.

These scientists punch a hole in that stuff, we may have a volcano on our hands. A new Hawaii may develope.

They sure better know what they are about to do down there while punching holes.

Um, methinks thou shouldest goest back to school.

The outer diameter of the crust is about 7500 miles. The inner diameter of the mantle if about 7470 miles. The crust is believed to be about (on average) 30 miles thick except at various locations such as deep ocean volcanic vents where the crustal thickness is believed to be as low as 5-25 miles (it's thicker under mountain ranges for examples than it is under deep ocean ridges).

The upper mantle and the mantle proper are believed to comprise about 70% of the total mass of the Earth (the core occupies about 30%). The total thickness of the mantle is believed to be about 2500 miles thick (2900 km).

From Wikipedia,

In the mantle, temperatures range between 500°C-900°C (932°F-1,652°F) at the upper boundary with the crust to over 4,000°C (7,200°F) at the boundary with the core. Although the higher temperatures far exceed the melting points of the mantle rocks at the surface (about 1200°C for representative peridotite), the mantle is almost exclusively solid. The enormous lithostatic pressure exerted on the mantle prevents melting, because the temperature at which melting begins (the solidus) increases with pressure.

Also from Wikipedia,

The second attempt to retrieve samples from the Earth's mantle is scheduled for 2007 [2]. As part of the Chikyu Hakken mission, it will use the Japanese vessel 'Chikyu' to drill up to 7000m (23,000 ft) below the seabed. This is nearly three times as deep as preceding oceanic drillings, which are preferred over land drillings because the crust at the seabed is thinner. The first attempt, known as Project Mohole, was abandoned in 1966 after repeated failures and cost over-runs. The deepest they managed to penetrate was about 180m (590 ft). In 2005 the third-deepest oceanic borehole hole reached 1416 meters (4,644 feet) below the sea floor from the ocean drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle_(geology)

I would recommend that next time you try to post here, you try to attend class before spouting drivel on this site that mixes up terminology a second grader could have figured out , but let me explain it to you in detail,

"diameter" is the distance through the center of a spherical object (generally).

"farenheit" is a standard (fairly) measurement of temperature.

While both diameter and temperature are units of measurement, they have no physical connection in terms of what they measure.

You've wandered onto a site where there are a LOT of very intelligent people. Do your homework next time. You'd have been flunked in any high school physics or geology exam for your comment.

/Lecture ends.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-05 17:48|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-05 17:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Drat! PIMF!

"deep ocean ridges" should read "deep ocean trenches"

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-05 17:50|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-05 17:50|| Front Page Top

Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic where the Earths crust appears to be missing. Instead, the mantle - the deep interior of the Earth, normally covered by crust many kilometres thick - is exposed on the seafloor, 3000m below the surface.

Goreball Worming blamed in 5, 4, 3....

Personally, I blame Bush.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-03-05 18:29|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-03-05 18:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Excuse me, if it's 3 thousand meters below the surface, it's not "exposed"!

One assumes that this is a complete misunderstanding of the reporter of what he has been told.

The actual depth of the mantle in the example he is (apparently) trying to explain is 3km below the surface of the bed of the ocean which is an unknown (and unspecified) depth below the surface of the ocean.

This appears to be a suboceanic vent and would appear to be well within known geophysical phenomena - not a friggin open wound in the surface of the earth as is tring to be portrayed in this ill-informed and badly written article!

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-05 19:15|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-05 19:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Okay FOTS since you seem to know what you are talking about.....

how much heat 500 - 900 C mantle is warming up the ocean? How much of an effect would that have on overall Gorebal Warnening? (Specifically, since warm water gives up CO2 is this helping to add CO2 to the atmosphere? If so, how much?

Is this accounted for in the "models" (snicker, joke, chortle)?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-03-05 20:10|| 2007-03-05 20:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Well the fishing was bad and the boat laid up
Now me and the lad weren't shirkers
When this chap comes to our village pub
and he say he's looking for workers
Talked like a bit of a yank I thought
And he stood us a couple or three
And he say they're building an oily rig
to get oil out of the old North Sea
There's plenty of riches for all
And gas as well as oil
And all he wanted from us local chaps
was some help with the work and the toil.

How much would we earn, I ventured to ask
Oh 20, 30 pound or so
Is that a month, I says and he laughed
No, he says, a week and even more.

Well I went home and told the Mrs this yarn
I said I heard these yarns afore
Don't see what good would become of it
drilling these holes offshore.
I'd rather work the boat with the boy
but the mrs she sit and she fret
You'll earn more there in a week she says
than a whole bloody year with your net!

Well, in the end, I took the job
And the boy he's on the tug
Thought some good would come of it
If only some beer in me mug.
We worked on this great big platform thing they made
and the drill it went Wheee Wheee Wheee
And we drilled this great big bloody round hole
In the bottom of the old North Sea.

Welllllllll, there weren't no gas and there weren't no oil
not a bloody sight we found
Till one day, the boy he shouts to me
Hey dad! The tug's aground!

I looked over the side and the boy was right
and everywhere I spied
there were boats and ships and liners aground
and the fish, all high and dry!
It looked just like a desert, boy
Enough to make a man afraid
with the last of the sea going glug glug glug
down that bloody great hole we made.

Then a hiss and a roar, and a cloud of steam
out of our hole it came
And out popped the head of the devil himself, saying
What's your bloody game??????!!!!!!!!!!
Youve flooded me furnaces and put me fires out
And hell is cold and sodden wet
You puddin-headed lout!!
Blast yer bloody hoily rig, you'd make an angel sob
I'll never get hell hot again,
I'll lose me bloody job!!!
Quite riled he was

Well, I just laughed cause I don't give a mite
You'll never get hell hot again
without a bloody light

So in the end, we did some good with our hoily rig
We sure doused Hell in a hurry
So if you die, there's only heaven

So no more need to worry.....

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-05 21:04|| 2007-03-05 21:04|| Front Page Top

#10 "New Hawaii" > why not? A few yarns ago there were publicly announced proposals to build underwater roadway tunnels stretching alongst flat, mostly linear seabeds from CONUS to other continents. RR's and underground transits have thier "break/transfer" stations - COME ON, LETS MAKE TEDDY ROOSEVELT PROUD!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-05 22:08|| 2007-03-05 22:08|| Front Page Top

#11 > These scientists punch a hole in that stuff,
> we may have a volcano on our hands. A new
> Hawaii may develop.

I CLAIM IT IN THE NAME OF ME!! Henceforth (after it cools down), it will be known as DMFDLand. There will be no taxes, minimal government, and we'll generate income by selling MP3's from the DMFDLand data-haven. Harrrrrrr!!! Avast ye scurvy downloaders!!

Posted by DMFD 2007-03-05 22:27|| 2007-03-05 22:27|| Front Page Top

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