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Posted on 02/27/2007 3:16:42 PM PST by blam
Huge Underground "Ocean" Found Beneath Asia
Richard A. Lovett
for National Geographic News
February 27, 2007
A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia, scientists report.
Researchers found the underground "ocean" while scanning seismic waves as they passed through Earth's interior.
But nobody will be exploring this sea by submarine. The water is locked in moisture-containing rocks 400 to 800 miles (700 to 1,400 kilometers) beneath the surface.
"I've gotten all sorts of emails asking if this is the water that burst out in Noah's flood," said the leader of the research team, Michael Wysession of Washington University in St. Louis.
"It isn't an ocean. [The water] is a very low percentage [of the rock], probably less than 0.1 percent."
Given the region's size, however, that's enough to add up to a vast amount of water.
Earthquakes Reveal "Ocean"
Wysession and former graduate student Jesse Lawrence discovered the damp spot by observing how seismic waves from distant earthquakes pass through Earth's mantle.
The wet zone, which runs from Indonesia to the northern tip of Russia, showed up as an area of relatively weak rock, causing the seismic waves to lose strength much more rapidly than elsewhere (see map of Asia.)
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What? Did you screw up *AGAIN*?!?!?!
;')
If memory serves, and sometimes it merely volleys, I read once that Coleridge actually plagiarized or nearly plagiarized the beginning of the poem, having read it or something similar while falling asleep the previous day.
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"It isn't an ocean. [The water] is a very low percentage [of the rock], probably less than 0.1 percent."
Bait and switch.
Huge Underground "Ocean" Found Beneath Asia.
WOW, an underground oce
"It isn't an ocean."
Ok. Then what is it?
"a vast amount of water"
Well, that sounds like
"Earthquakes Reveal "Ocean"
So, it is an ocean
"Wysession and former graduate student Jesse Lawrence discovered the damp spot"
Damp spot? If I pee my pants, I have an ocean in my shorts?
"The wet zone"
I give up
If there is air in the hole a person falling through this hole would only go a short way past the center, then fall back past it again, eventually stopping weightless at the center. Disregarding air, heat, etc. he would pop up on the other side, then fall back through the center again, popping up at his point of origin. Basically he would be in continuous free fall, like a satellite.
Edgar Rice Burroughs had an underground ocean, the Sea of Omean, in one of his Barsoom novels ("The Gods of Mars"). Is that what you're referring to?
My needs are more modest. I put lakes in mine.
No, but I loved those books when I was a youngster.
(nod to ERB)
Pellucidar ?????
Didn't Jules Verne describe an ocean deep underground in his "Journey to the Center of the Earth"?
I wonder what kind of sea critters got sucked into this underground ocean when it formed with plate tectonics. I wonder if they are still there. I wonder what they've evolved into.
"I've gotten all sorts of emails asking if this is the water that burst out in Noah's flood," said the leader of the research team, Michael Wysession of Washington University in St. Louis. "
Strange people out there.
No reason to get nasty, now. Maybe she was just expressing her feelings.
Interesting.......
How has that been going lately?
Small Comets and Our Origins
University of Iowa | circa 1999 | Louis A. Frank
Posted on 10/20/2004 2:13:25 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1250694/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1607979/posts?page=98#98
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1169550/posts?page=50#50
sidebar, old-style topic, on panspermia:
Did Life Drip Down From Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
Source: spacedaily.com
Published: 17 oct 00 Author: STAFF
Posted on 10/25/2000 12:21:10 PDT by RightWhale
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a39f732a6231b.htm
If he did that in vacuum, and managed to avoid hitting the walls, and the planet were a perfect sphere, he would reach the other side at precisely zero velocity.
Seems to be my fate lately.
Re: Coleridge. The version I was taught is that he was a bit of an opium smoker (poetic inspiration, right?) While in an afternoon opium dream he composed many verses of the poem and after awakening, started to scribble them down from memory.
His creative frenzy was interrupted by a person from the town of Porlock, who knocked on his door and engaged him in a lengthy conversation. By the time C. got back to the poem he'd forgotten everything except the fragment that survives. Google "person from porlock" and you'll get several versions of the above.
Thanks!
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