Posted on 05/30/2012 9:29:52 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
Well ...
Best reason I can think of is that would be a lie. It would be as big and as heinous a lie as claiming to know everything beyond a doubt.
Just curious ... Do you know anyone who actually does science or engineering for a living?
“Except your analogy is flawed, since we’re talking about mostly static pressure, not dynamic pressure i.e. the kind that would result from motion, falling, a collision, etc. “
So are you saying Chicken Little was right to be so concerned?
I'm certainly all spun up over this!
Is that small entrance at the bottom of the illustration the hole through which they give the Earth its Enigma?lol! Post of the day! (God I love FR.)
Thanks for this thread.
“Geologists have long known that Earths core, some 1,800 miles beneath our feet, is a dense, chemically doped ball of iron roughly the size of Mars and every bit as alien. Its a place where pressures bear down with the weight of 3.5 million atmospheres, like 3.5 million skies falling at once on your head, and where temperatures reach 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit as hot as the surface of the Sun. Its a place where the term ironclad agreement has no meaning, since iron cant even agree with itself on what form to take. Its a fluid, its a solid, its twisting and spiraling like liquid confetti.”
AKA, the Teddy Kennedy grease fire.
So... I guess that means we’re all gonna die....?
May be of interest.
Or maybe Hell is really down there, and it’s emitting all that heat, because it’s gonna stay hot forever!
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