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Comet's water 'like that of Earth's oceans'
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| October 5, 2011
| Jason Palmer
Posted on 10/05/2011 6:41:44 PM PDT by decimon
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10/05/2011 6:41:46 PM PDT
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decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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10/05/2011 6:42:23 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
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10/05/2011 6:47:53 PM PDT
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aruanan
To: decimon
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was morningthe first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water. 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault sky. And there was evening, and there was morningthe second day.
9 And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground land, and the gathered waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good.
To: aruanan
Thanks.
Looks like this weighs in favor of that theory.
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10/05/2011 6:51:39 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
It’s salty, has fish, plankton, sharks swimming it.
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10/05/2011 6:53:51 PM PDT
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ROCKLOBSTER
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10/05/2011 6:56:00 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: decimon
deuterium, a rare type of hydrogen
Yikes, who writes this stuff. deuterium is "heavy water" which includes hydrogen obviously but hydrogen is hydrogen is hydrogen unless its something else.
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10/05/2011 6:57:01 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
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10/05/2011 6:57:41 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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10/05/2011 7:00:36 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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10/05/2011 7:00:58 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: aruanan
Lou Frank has been attacked for twenty years on this subject.
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10/05/2011 7:01:50 PM PDT
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iowamark
(Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
To: decimon
“The result, published in Nature, hints at the idea that much of the Earth’s water could have initially came from cometary impacts. “
or maybe the other way around :)
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10/05/2011 7:04:17 PM PDT
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ari-freedom
(I'm a heartless conservative because I love this country.)
To: SunkenCiv
Makes sense I guess. Deuterium is just the most commonly used term for heavy water despite the inaccuracy.
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10/05/2011 7:04:48 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
To: cripplecreek
Makes sense I guess.
Sure, Deuterium = heavy water = cold fusion.
Comets are driven by cold fusion.
Now why didn’t I think of that.
Oh yeah, I just did.
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10/05/2011 7:47:09 PM PDT
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tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
And who says conservatives don’t do science. LOL
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10/05/2011 7:48:39 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(MLB Playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786167/posts)
To: cripplecreek
“Yikes, who writes this stuff. ...”
It’s strangely worded, but correct. Deuterium is an isotope of Hydrogen. The abundant form of hydrogen has just a proton in the nucleus. Deuterium has a neutron and a proton. That’s why it’s “heavy”.
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10/05/2011 8:05:35 PM PDT
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brownsfan
(Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
Its salty, has fish, plankton, sharks swimming it.Sharks with laser beams.
Oh, and it the lost city of atlantis is there at the bottom, too.
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10/05/2011 8:20:39 PM PDT
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the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: cripplecreek
Makes sense I guess. Deuterium is just the most commonly used term for heavy water despite the inaccuracy.I recall many years ago being confused in trying to find out what deuterium is. I'd read different things.
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10/05/2011 8:21:37 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
How much water is in a comet compared to that in the earth’s oceans? Is it plausible that a strike on the earth by a large dry rock could cause ocean water to splash out into outer space, in such a way that it would enter a highly elliptical orbit about the sun and become a comet?
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10/05/2011 8:21:59 PM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
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