the Earth IS getting bigger, you fuckers (1305 hits)
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Submitted by shandythetopdog (View user info) at 2009-11-03 08:27:10 EST
just as cornnugget sticks to her guns, constantly exploring her possible quirkiness and mental complaints, so i stick to mine.
some time ago i posted the revolutionary idea that the earth was getting bigger. this was based on my observation that ruins and dinosaur bones etc were found UNDERGROUND. ie, the ground level is constantly rising. ie, earth is constantly growing.
this, i reasoned, is caused by two things:
-life on earth
-the addition to life on earth of energy from an external source (ie the sun)
the nature of life is to grow. and that growth is fuelled by the sun. therefore the earth grows.
amazingly, rather than being rushed to belgium or switzerland or wherever it is the nobel prizes are dished out, i was ridiculed.
people ignored the key point about energy from an EXTERNAL source being CONSTANTLY ADDED, and mumbled rubbish about the surface soil just shifting about all the time, sometimes covering sometimes uncovering things.
well, tonight in a moment of blinding inspiration i just thought of something else that provides even more conclusive evidence to support my theory: oil
not so long ago, i learnt why oil is called a 'fossil fuel'. apparently it is made of fossils. ie dead stuff. ie stuff that was once alive.
now, where is oil found? in all kinds of places, obviously, but it is often found VERY VERY DEEP IN THE GROUND.
VERY, VERY DEEP
need i say more?
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Submitted by Cakes (user info) at 2009-11-11 02:01:25 EST (#)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc8AN6TIbm4&feature=fvw
Must see first.
This vid... well he might back you up dog. The world is a scary place, as this bastard proves. Remove the people and it'd be ok, but fucksake, I feel like I've been trippin the last 10 years. Just watch Vince and the slapchop. Christ on a bike, seemingly incidental crap like that is airwave anagrams for 2012.
A new beginning or the end? Let's assume it's the end of the so called Piscean age and the dawing of the Age of Aquarius. Milk and honey, bartering grapes for barley.
I think this post dislodged some ancient loop gene in my frontal lobe and freed me so now I see too clearly. I'm not saying it's right, just that I see more. All is vanity, Shakespeare says. That has nothing to do with anything, yet everything. If I could just go to Imagination Land I could so prove it. Not so farfetcdhed: our so called reality and the quantum field allows for that, the multiverse. Photons can be in two places at once, like Bob Saget in reruns as we speak whilst he's taking a dump in a Best Western on highway 90 --11 dimensions instead of 3.
Case in point: like me everybody here is an alter: who here uses their real name? That's what I thought. You're an alter of your real self here. The rub is, even if you used your real name, that too would be an alter— according to David Hawkins. The "I" you assume is you is no more than a holographic rental car. I'm on a jag, it could morph into a rant but I'm too stoned on my own thoughts --on another site-- trying to make peep understand that zero point can only be accomplished via sound. I said it, sound.
Vibrations, which we're all made of. The earth may be getting bigger-- tectonic plate shifts could actually cave it in and make it smaller----and sound is the free energy no one can see, YET.
(Will continue anon)
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-11-08 23:24:39 EST (#)
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Submitted by sword (user info) at 2009-11-04 07:35:50 PST (#)
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I'm unsure if this is some inside joke I don't get. Either way it did make me smile. I will also risk explaining why you are wrong on the off chance you aren't joking and in case you are interested.
1. The external energy source
You are correct that the sun is constantly shining on the Earth. You are incorrect if you believe that this adds mass to the planet Earth. For a decent discussion of this fact you can read the website at http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00644.htm.
Furthermore, solar radiation is eventually returned back into space. It is emitted as radiation from the Earth. Logically, you can see that this must be true, otherwise the Earth would simply get hotter and hotter all the time. Instead the Earth stays at a roughly constant temperature. This is because there is a balance between the amount of energy absorbed by the sun and the amount of energy radiated out of the Earth.
2. Nature of life to grow
While this may or not be true the Earth is not alive and so its nature need not be to grow at all. The living things on the Earth grow, but they do so by using the mass of the Earth. Plants, as you might suggest, are indeed powered by the sun, along with other autotrophs, but the energy they get from the sun does not increase their mass directly. Instead it allows those plants to produce chemical reactions and take nutrients from the Earth. These nutrients in turn increase the mass of the plant.
So, the growth and death of life is actually just the removal of mass from the Earth and the return of that mass to it. Life itself can neither be increasing or decreasing the mass of the Earth (Excepting things like living humans sending spaceships to the moon or Mars and leaving them there).
3. Dinosaurs underground suggest the Earth is growing
While this is certainly your most fun point it is not accurate either. Instead the geology of the Earth is cyclical. As the tectonic plates of the Earth shift into each some are subducted (or pushed down towards the core of the Earth) which causes their rocky material to melt and turn into magma. Later this magma will be ejected from volcanic activity and spread across the Earth as newly formed rock.
Similarly small sediments (like dirt) are constantly being lifted and moved. Large heavy objects (like dinosaur bones) lay still (relative to dirt at least). So, the dirt is picked up and moved around while the bones lay still. Eventually you can see that the bones will wind up on the bottom of a pile of dirt. This is the effect that causes dinosaur bones to be under the ground.
To confirm this for yourself take a bowl, fill it partially with fine dirt and then add a heavy rock to the top of the dirt. Cover the bowl and then shake it gently for a few minutes. The rock will move to the bottom of the bowl.
4. Meteorites and etcetera
I know this is actually Berty's point and it is a fair one. A substantial amount of material from space hits the Earth every year. If the Earth were growing it would be by this circumstance. Nevertheless, this is not a revolutionary idea in science, it is well understood.
As Berty mentioned though meteorites through off ejecta from the Earth if they are large enough when they hit. The moon is a good example and contrary to Berty's suggestion it is actually slowly escaping the orbit of the Earth and will one day (far from now) be gone for good.
Another effect that contradicts the gradual increase in Earth's mass that we might expect from constant bombardment from space particles is the gradual loss of our atmosphere to space. Some quantity of our atmosphere is vented into space each day. Currently it is impossible to quantify this amount just as it is impossible to quantify the amount of debris from space that falls on our planet. Until each factor is known (and other factors besides) it will be impossible to determine if the planet actually is increasing in mass or decreasing.
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you are so smart you gave me a headache.....
Submitted by skettymonster (user info) at 2009-11-05 09:43:27 EST (#)
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ooh naw naw see the sketty monster is affecting the carbon dating results with his noodley appendage when you werent looking. earth is 6000 years old sorry. all evidence pointing to the contrary is merely the Sket testing the faith of his believers.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-11-05 03:41:45 EST (#)
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Science is all guess work and theory anyway. It is like grammar in that respect.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2009-11-04 22:38:36 EST (#)
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science for the insane on this post!
Submitted by Cakes (user info) at 2009-11-04 20:41:23 EST (#)
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In a bong-hit academic way this was funny. To hell with Tectonic plate shifts, you make some plausible observations. (btw, many of these principles could apply to Apollo's head)
Submitted by willartstorg (user info) at 2009-11-04 20:11:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2009-11-04 17:41:28 EST (#)
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Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2009-11-03 14:17:08 PST (#)
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sgt hartman, however, does not make sense. we DO get something from the sun: ENERGY.
that energy does not come from earth, so it is not part of a recycling scheme. it is a constant external addition.
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Sgt. Hartman is not wrong. Sgt. Hartman is never wrong. The sun does nothing to make the earth bigger, as can easily be shown from the equation for photosynthesis:
6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight => C6H12O6 + 6O2
In plain English, that means that sunlight causes six carbon dioxide molecules and six water molecules to become one glucose molecule and six oxygen molecules. NOTHING IS ADDED! It's exactly the same atoms rearranged: 6 carbon, 12 hydrogen and 18 oxygen.
Strike a match to a phat glucose molecule and it will suck six oxygen molecules out of the air and produce heat, six carbon dioxide molecules and six water molecules.
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.gregory/files/bio%20101/Bio%20101%20Lectures/Photosynthesis/photosyn.htm
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Widdout da sun we is all dead. And NO BROCCOLI!!!
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2009-11-04 19:49:48 EST (#)
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typo
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2009-11-04 19:47:31 EST (#)
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GOD or DOG maybe you are right. Or maybe GOD left the oil and fossils there...I've heard that theory to...
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2009-11-04 17:41:28 EST (#)
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Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2009-11-03 14:17:08 PST (#)
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sgt hartman, however, does not make sense. we DO get something from the sun: ENERGY.
that energy does not come from earth, so it is not part of a recycling scheme. it is a constant external addition.
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Sgt. Hartman is not wrong. Sgt. Hartman is never wrong. The sun does nothing to make the earth bigger, as can easily be shown from the equation for photosynthesis:
6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight => C6H12O6 + 6O2
In plain English, that means that sunlight causes six carbon dioxide molecules and six water molecules to become one glucose molecule and six oxygen molecules. NOTHING IS ADDED! It's exactly the same atoms rearranged: 6 carbon, 12 hydrogen and 18 oxygen.
Strike a match to a phat glucose molecule and it will suck six oxygen molecules out of the air and produce heat, six carbon dioxide molecules and six water molecules.
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.gregory/files/bio%20101/Bio%20101%20Lectures/Photosynthesis/photosyn.htm
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-11-04 16:04:28 EST (#)
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Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 22:24:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-11-03 11:08:25 EST (#)
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can't we all just be brothers?
except corn nugget, who is needy and selfish.
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SELFISH!? How dare you!
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no, how dare YOU!
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2009-11-04 13:06:17 EST (#)
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amazingly, rather than being rushed to belgium or switzerland or wherever it is the nobel prizes are dished out, i was ridiculed.
you're funny.
Submitted by GroundHorse (user info) at 2009-11-04 11:39:00 EST (#)
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This post makes perfect sense.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-11-04 11:32:18 EST (#)
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I didn't know whether it was escaping or going to come crashing down. The latter seemed the more romantic so I went with that.
Uber is all about the learning.
Submitted by sword (user info) at 2009-11-04 10:35:50 EST (#)
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I'm unsure if this is some inside joke I don't get. Either way it did make me smile. I will also risk explaining why you are wrong on the off chance you aren't joking and in case you are interested.
1. The external energy source
You are correct that the sun is constantly shining on the Earth. You are incorrect if you believe that this adds mass to the planet Earth. For a decent discussion of this fact you can read the website at http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00644.htm.
Furthermore, solar radiation is eventually returned back into space. It is emitted as radiation from the Earth. Logically, you can see that this must be true, otherwise the Earth would simply get hotter and hotter all the time. Instead the Earth stays at a roughly constant temperature. This is because there is a balance between the amount of energy absorbed by the sun and the amount of energy radiated out of the Earth.
2. Nature of life to grow
While this may or not be true the Earth is not alive and so its nature need not be to grow at all. The living things on the Earth grow, but they do so by using the mass of the Earth. Plants, as you might suggest, are indeed powered by the sun, along with other autotrophs, but the energy they get from the sun does not increase their mass directly. Instead it allows those plants to produce chemical reactions and take nutrients from the Earth. These nutrients in turn increase the mass of the plant.
So, the growth and death of life is actually just the removal of mass from the Earth and the return of that mass to it. Life itself can neither be increasing or decreasing the mass of the Earth (Excepting things like living humans sending spaceships to the moon or Mars and leaving them there).
3. Dinosaurs underground suggest the Earth is growing
While this is certainly your most fun point it is not accurate either. Instead the geology of the Earth is cyclical. As the tectonic plates of the Earth shift into each some are subducted (or pushed down towards the core of the Earth) which causes their rocky material to melt and turn into magma. Later this magma will be ejected from volcanic activity and spread across the Earth as newly formed rock.
Similarly small sediments (like dirt) are constantly being lifted and moved. Large heavy objects (like dinosaur bones) lay still (relative to dirt at least). So, the dirt is picked up and moved around while the bones lay still. Eventually you can see that the bones will wind up on the bottom of a pile of dirt. This is the effect that causes dinosaur bones to be under the ground.
To confirm this for yourself take a bowl, fill it partially with fine dirt and then add a heavy rock to the top of the dirt. Cover the bowl and then shake it gently for a few minutes. The rock will move to the bottom of the bowl.
4. Meteorites and etcetera
I know this is actually Berty's point and it is a fair one. A substantial amount of material from space hits the Earth every year. If the Earth were growing it would be by this circumstance. Nevertheless, this is not a revolutionary idea in science, it is well understood.
As Berty mentioned though meteorites through off ejecta from the Earth if they are large enough when they hit. The moon is a good example and contrary to Berty's suggestion it is actually slowly escaping the orbit of the Earth and will one day (far from now) be gone for good.
Another effect that contradicts the gradual increase in Earth's mass that we might expect from constant bombardment from space particles is the gradual loss of our atmosphere to space. Some quantity of our atmosphere is vented into space each day. Currently it is impossible to quantify this amount just as it is impossible to quantify the amount of debris from space that falls on our planet. Until each factor is known (and other factors besides) it will be impossible to determine if the planet actually is increasing in mass or decreasing.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-11-04 09:07:02 EST (#)
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Also meteorites. Occaisonally (so I'm told) they seperate bits from the earth, the moon for example, but they'll eventually come back to earth to be embraced into the rocky whole.
Unless they don't of course, but I hope that isn't the case as it would be inconvenient.
Submitted by LoooseSprocket (user info) at 2009-11-04 08:45:44 EST (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-11-04 06:43:18 EST (#)
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Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-11-03 23:12:12 EST (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:43:53 EST (#)
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I think you do in fact need to say more, because this is direct contradiction to my theory that the dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet at all but collectively and purposefully crawled underground in order to become oil. The fact that the dinosaurs did claw their way throgh the rock and soil to gather underground and become oil, sacrificing themselves that we may flourish, is obvious. The question is WHY did they do this?
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Don't be ridiculous. Dinosaurs went extinct due to nicotine patch overdosing, clearly.
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Bah. All those nicotine patches filtered out of the oil pumped out of the ground are there only because the dinosaurs were using them to help stay awake as they dug through all that rock. They didn't have Diet Coke or methamphetamine like we do today.
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-11-03 23:12:12 EST (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:43:53 EST (#)
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I think you do in fact need to say more, because this is direct contradiction to my theory that the dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet at all but collectively and purposefully crawled underground in order to become oil. The fact that the dinosaurs did claw their way throgh the rock and soil to gather underground and become oil, sacrificing themselves that we may flourish, is obvious. The question is WHY did they do this?
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Don't be ridiculous. Dinosaurs went extinct due to nicotine patch overdosing, clearly.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 22:24:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-11-03 11:08:25 EST (#)
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can't we all just be brothers?
except corn nugget, who is needy and selfish.
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SELFISH!? How dare you!
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2009-11-03 17:43:44 EST (#)
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Of course the Earth is getting bigger, it has to, because it needs to balance out the additional gravitational forces imposed by people like this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221592/Worlds-heaviest-man-needs-Chinook-airlift-life-saving-operation.html
When a human begins to challenge pachyderms in terms of body mass, then I think a bill should be introduced whereby members of the public can amputate limbs at will, and roast the limbs on spits at public street BBQ's.
You obviously wouldn't want to roast the whole guy sitting, I mean he would bend the spit, and even with a street of 100 people there would be a whole heap of wasted leftovers.
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2009-11-03 17:31:13 EST (#)
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I want this post to be put into science textbooks and shipped by next week. Also, I suspect that oil killed JFK in Wisconsin. I base this statement solely on the chaos theory, which is also science.
Case closed.
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2009-11-03 17:17:08 EST (#)
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apollo may have a point becase i can't understand what he's saying. i do remember there is apparently some sort of molten fire ball in the middle of earth. maybe that consumes energy.
sgt hartman, however, does not make sense. we DO get something from the sun: ENERGY.
that energy does not come from earth, so it is not part of a recycling scheme. it is a constant external addition.
Submitted by darkwulffe (user info) at 2009-11-03 16:00:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:43:12 EST (#)
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Seems perfectly logical to me
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ditto
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2009-11-03 13:42:19 EST (#)
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Also, 9/11 was cause by TEH SPACE LAZORZ11?/eleventyone11!"/WTFBBQ
Invest in tinfoil
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2009-11-03 12:26:21 EST (#)
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if THAT blows your mind check THIS out!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/giantcrackinafricawillcreateanewocean
Submitted by leenard (user info) at 2009-11-03 12:22:18 EST (#)
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The expansion of earth is more of a hypothesis and contrary to scientific consensus if you are really referring to that. I could agree if you said that the universe is expanding.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-11-03 12:15:40 EST (#)
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/139217/interplanetary-dust-particle#
Debris from space, mostly Solar Wind and cosmic dust land on Earth at a rate of about 30,000 tons a year. At a mean density of 150 lb.ft^3, that's 400,000 ft^3 of stuff. Earth's diameter is 7926.28 miles or 41,850,758.4 ft. If we consider it a mean sphere, it's surface area is 2.201 x 10^16 ft^2. So, every year a layer of stuff 1.8174 x 10^-11 ft, or 218 trillionths of an inch, or about 1/100th the diameter of a hygrogen atom gets deposited on the planet. Over the planet's 4.5-billion year history, that's almost exactly one inch of stuff.
The Earth IS getting bigger.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2009-11-03 11:45:21 EST (#)
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The sun only propagates the growth and death of material ALREADY here. It doesnt ADD material to the planet, only helps to recycle it. You know, plants and animals die, they decompose, from their material new plants and animals feed, breed, seed, die (you know, circle of life and all that). The only thing that has added material to our planet is asteroid and meteor activity. Everything else is just recycled. So no, the earth isnt getting bigger, its just changing shape.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2009-11-03 11:35:47 EST (#)
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so is like an earthquake when the earth is growing?
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-11-03 11:08:25 EST (#)
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can't we all just be brothers?
except corn nugget, who is needy and selfish.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2009-11-03 10:57:50 EST (#)
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You are actually very wrong as the amount of 'stuff' rocks, soil, sediment etc remains astonishingly constant and young due to the phenomenon known as 'subduction'.
Essentially all the run off from the land, mountains etc that ends up in the sea instead of piling up (think about it, after millions of years the sea bed would be higher than sea level otherwise) is pulled under the tectonic plates in two subduction zones that essentially act as a conveyor belt of mass.
This is returned deep into the earths mantle where it is recycled.
From wiki:
Subduction zones mark sites of convective downwelling of the Earth's lithosphere (the crust plus the top brittle portion of the upper mantle). Subduction zones exist at convergent plate boundaries where one plate of oceanic lithosphere converges with another plate. The down-going slab -- the leading edge of the subducting plate—is overridden by leading edge of the other plate. The slab sinks at an angle of approximately 25 to 45 degrees to the surface of the Earth. At a depth of approximately 80-120 km, the basalt of the oceanic slab is converted to a metamorphic rock called eclogite. At this point, the density of the oceanic lithosphere increases and it is carried into the mantle by the downwelling convective currents. It is at subduction zones that the Earth's lithosphere, oceanic crust, sedimentary layers, and some trapped water are recycled into the deep mantle. Earth is the only planet where subduction is known to occur. Without subduction, plate tectonics could not exist.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2009-11-03 10:42:50 EST (#)
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It's also because we keep burying stuff.
If garden centres were banned and people had to be cremated the size of the globe would stabilise.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2009-11-03 09:57:08 EST (#)
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The Titanic is found VERY VERY DEEP in the ocean. Does that mean the water levels rose several hundred feet in the past century?
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-11-03 09:17:45 EST (#)
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cheers titty bang bang
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 09:14:50 EST (#)
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cornnugget.at.gmail.com
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-11-03 09:13:17 EST (#)
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because im at work corn, its 14:12 on a weekday.
i could email you, if i had your address
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 09:10:19 EST (#)
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EI, why aren't you on gmail?
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-11-03 09:08:43 EST (#)
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show us your tits corn, i get the feeling im the only guy on uber who hasn't seen them :(
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-11-03 09:05:45 EST (#)
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Well I'll be! Does this explain Global Warming too? I sure hope so.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 09:05:29 EST (#)
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lol
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:58:28 EST (#)
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scaled down somewhat, dont pretend you havent seen
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:55:50 EST (#)
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That's what your penis looks like?
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:52:21 EST (#)
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and you love my penis corn, bless you.
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Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:50:42 EST (#)
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You love me, EI.
Submitted by TuTs (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:50:34 EST (#)
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and gaia the earth goddess is a living thing. SO obvious.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:44:39 EST (#)
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Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 13:43:12 GMT (#)
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Seems perfectly logical to me.
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:43:53 EST (#)
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I think you do in fact need to say more, because this is direct contradiction to my theory that the dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet at all but collectively and purposefully crawled underground in order to become oil. The fact that the dinosaurs did claw their way throgh the rock and soil to gather underground and become oil, sacrificing themselves that we may flourish, is obvious. The question is WHY did they do this?
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2009-11-03 08:43:12 EST (#)
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Seems perfectly logical to me.