Flying Dino Too Weak to Lift Off?

Discovery News ^ | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Larry O'Hanlon

[El Cid]

I’m also wondering what percentage of the atmosphere and hydrosphere would be permanently blasted into space if you abruptly opened a 120 mile wide crater down to magma at a shallow ocean margin? Seems to me that would create a superheated seawater steam jet that would rocket into space for days if not weeks.

Walter Brown's Hydroplate model?

Hydroplate

[null and void]

Almost, but not quite, totally unlike that.

This isn’t a vast amount of subterranean water created out of whole cloth to explain away a miraculous story. This is a planetary ocean clearly visible to the most casual and disinterested observer.

Imagine a 120 mile wide crater torn open in the bottom of a shallow SURFACE sea.

Where does the sea water go?

It tries to fill the hole.

The bottom of the hole is orange yellow to white hot.

What does the SURFACE sea water do when you pour it onto a 2000°F pool of molten rock?

(You get extra point if you say “BOIL” at this point).

Water expands 1740 times in volume when it boils.

Where does this extra suddenly created volume go? Hint 1: It’s on a rock floor. Hint 2: It is surrounded by a ring of crater wall and a high wall of in-pouring seawater.

The only path is up. Up into space. How much atmospheric air gets swept into it and how much of the air and superheated steam falls back to earth is an exercise left for the reader.

Extra bonus points if you point out that BEFORE a goodly fraction of the world spanning ocean was blasted into space, there just might have been enough water on earth to really create a global flood.

Extra extra points if you speculate that it took, say, forty days and forty nights for the crater to cool enough so that the fraction of the vast amount of water blasted into space that was going to make a return trip stopped settling back to earth.

Extra extra extra points if you imagine what an evening sky would look like with trillions of gallons of frozen droplets of ice in a orbital cloud with raw sunlight shining on it.

I’d say a vast horizon-to-horizon ground to zenith daylight bright rainbow...