Scientists discover massive ocean of water 400 miles underground

The Verge ^ | June 14, 2014 2:20am | Kwame Opam

[GOPJ]

Liberals are crying over this one...

After the 'global warming' scams fall apart - the next one was going to be 'water shortages'. This ruins that fear mongering 'next' cause.... Democrats are not happy campers...

[blueplum]

Thanks, yefragetuwrabrumuy. The earth sure is an amazing creation.

[dangus]

Not really. The mass of the oceans is trivial to the thickness of the Earth. With the Marianas trench and Mount Everest, the surface of the Earth is smoother than a brand-new cue ball.

[tet68]

Buckminster Fuller compared it to the thickness of the
ink on a 16” globe of the earth.
Glad I had a chance to hear him.

[GreyFriar]

Don’t worry the anti-fracking folks are probably tooling up a campaign that drilling wells and fracking will cause that entire water source to be polluted.

[tet68]

I’m not sure you could even call it “water” at that depth
and pressure.

[OldNewYork]

Now that’s pretty interesting.

[SampleMan]

I just did the math, and sure enough, its a much smaller factor than I at first assumed.

That said, I am now going to blame the Himalayas the next time I miss a straight in.

[WorkingClassFilth]

The fountains of the deep.

[GeronL]

ocean of.... water?

seriously?

I’d never believe it

[dangus]

It’s not. It Hydroxide ions, chemically bonded within rock. Terribly misleading headline.

[dangus]

(Hydroxide, of course, is the primary constituent chemical of creme-filled chocolate cookies.)

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

> The earth sure is an amazing creation.

That’s an understatement. Check out:

The Crystal Cave of Giants, Naica, Mexico.

http://www.stormchaser.ca/caves/naica/naica.html

The Danxia landform, Zhangye, Province of Gansu, China. The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.

http://www.unc.edu/~cpringle/Pringle%27s%20Webpage/img/CrazyColors.jpg

The Richat Structure, found in Maur Adar Desert in Mauritania, the Richat Structure formed when a volcanic dome hardened and then gradually eroded. What resulted was strange concentric rings of rock.

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/2000/2861/landsat_art_richat.jpg

Fly Geyser in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/fly-geyser-green.jpg

[wxgesr]

I wanna be the first person to surf in Hell!

[JRios1968]

I wanna be the first person to surf in Hell!

Before or after dinner?

[wxgesr]

and in the shade......great pic

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 6/16/2014. Thanks blueplum.

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[SunkenCiv]

Amazingly, the earths water is really a miniscule amount | 5/15/2012 | thanks central_va.

The Louis Frank keyword:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- All the Water on Planet Earth
• Comet's water 'like that of Earth's oceans'
• Telescope shoots video of heavenly halo ("mystery flash" filmed from Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
• Clandestine comets found in main asteroid belt - Earth oceans origin
• Cosmic Hole-in-One Captured Over Antarctica
• Small Comets and Our Origins
• An Argument for the Cometary Origin of the Biosphere
• So, where did the water on Mars come from?

[dead]

If this is true, then something down there has to be a lot denser than we thought...

It's full of liberals.