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Heart of Earth's inner core revealed
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| 10 February 2015
| Rebecca Morelle
Posted on 02/10/2015 12:54:42 AM PST by moose07
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posted on
02/10/2015 12:54:42 AM PST
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moose07
To: moose07
What is an “equatorial axis”?
To: moose07
From the article:
The seismic wave data suggests that crystals in the "inner inner core" are aligned in an east-to-west direction - flipped on their side, if you are looking down at our planet from high above the North Pole.
The core, which lies more than 5,000km down, started to solidify about a billion years ago - and it continues to grow about 0.5mm each year.
Sounds like a bunch of super computer simulations, interpretations and guess-ta-mations going on there :)
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posted on
02/10/2015 1:18:52 AM PST
by
The Cajun
(Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
To: Born to Conserve
The Equatorial Axis is the intersection of a sphere’s surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere’s axis of rotation and midway between the poles.
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posted on
02/10/2015 1:19:22 AM PST
by
moose07
(The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
To: The Cajun
Guess-ta-mations on a monumental scale. :)
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02/10/2015 1:21:25 AM PST
by
moose07
(The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
To: moose07
Worked with sonic and ultrasonic equipment for an oilfield service company, the part about the core increasing 0.5mm every year kind of tickled me considering the depth of that measurement and the very indirect way they are measuring it.
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posted on
02/10/2015 1:28:39 AM PST
by
The Cajun
(Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
To: The Cajun
Proof positive the Chinese are training to all jump off a 30 in platform concurrently, in order to throw us off the face of the planet.
:^)
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posted on
02/10/2015 1:37:43 AM PST
by
Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: Cvengr
Also proof positive their super computer is still running Windows Vista :)
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posted on
02/10/2015 1:40:59 AM PST
by
The Cajun
(Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
To: moose07
The Equatorial Axis is the intersection of a spheres surface with the plane perpendicular to the spheres axis of rotation and midway between the poles. You are describing a circle (intersection of the surface of a sphere with a plane), whereas the pictorial representation is not a circle, but a straight line intersecting the surface of the planet at two points: 9˚ south latitude, 91˚ east longitude and 9˚ north latitude, 89˚ west longitude. Since an "axis" is generally a line, and your explanation is at odds with the diagram provided by the authors, I suggest your post fails to explain the significance of this odd "axis".
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posted on
02/10/2015 1:58:39 AM PST
by
John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)
To: John Valentine
This may help:
90 degrees to axis of rotation.
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posted on
02/10/2015 2:29:31 AM PST
by
moose07
(The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
To: The Cajun
Sounds like pimping for research dollars and tenure to me.
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posted on
02/10/2015 3:36:20 AM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(Adversity does not build character so much as expose it.)
To: moose07
Somehow I think reading the composition of the Earth’s core from echoes of earthquakes is like reading the future from tea leaves.
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posted on
02/10/2015 4:00:57 AM PST
by
Fester Chugabrew
(Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
To: moose07
There are vast amounts of gold, metals, and diamonds just a thousand miles away. Unfortunately we have a far easier time reaching Mars 50 million miles away than reaching Earth’s core.
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posted on
02/10/2015 4:02:23 AM PST
by
Reeses
To: Fester Chugabrew
That is similar to the first thing that went through my head when I heard the report on the radio this morning. :)
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posted on
02/10/2015 4:03:01 AM PST
by
moose07
(The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
To: The Cajun
The term W-A-G comes to mind.
(Wild-Assed-Guess).
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posted on
02/10/2015 4:16:06 AM PST
by
Tucker39
(Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
To: moose07
Thanks to Algore, we all know now that it’s millllyons and millllyons degrees down there too.
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posted on
02/10/2015 4:54:27 AM PST
by
RetSignman
(Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
To: Fester Chugabrew
Somehow I think reading the composition of the Earths core from echoes of earthquakes is like reading the future from tea leaves. Not nearly that precise.
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posted on
02/10/2015 5:00:35 AM PST
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: moose07
Let’s see....
The equatorial axis of the Earth is 9 degrees.
The elliptic of the planets relative to the Sun is 9 degrees.
Uh...ya...no Creator....just an accident.
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posted on
02/10/2015 5:08:04 AM PST
by
G Larry
(Obama may not be "THE" Antichrist, but he is certainly America's Antichrist.)
To: Cvengr
Noooo. The Chinese are tunneling through the earth to invade. Maybe they’ll poke through at a housing project site and run away.
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posted on
02/10/2015 5:14:32 AM PST
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: moose07
I don’t see the Shire and all the Hobbits.
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posted on
02/10/2015 6:16:08 AM PST
by
4yearlurker
(Some people say that experts agree!!)
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