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Study: Deep beneath the earth, more water than in all the oceans combined
Washington Post ^ | 6/16/15 | Terrence McCoy

Posted on 06/16/2015 1:06:54 PM PDT by LibWhacker

By June 16, 2014 (NASA) (Source: NASA)

In the remote and forested terrain of Juina in western Brazil, an ugly rock with an uglier name surfaced months ago inside a diamond mine. It was a tiny green crystal, all scars and bumps. It “literally look[ed] like [it had] been to hell and back,” one scientist said in March. But despite the provenance, the ringwoodite stone wasn’t scorched — it was, in fact, sopping wet.

Providing an unparalleled glimpse into the our planet’s innards, the stone rode a violent volcanic eruption to the surface from 325 miles inside the Earth’s mantle. “The eruption … is analogous to dropping a Mentos mint into a bottle of soda,” Graham Pearson, a geochemist at the University of Alberta, told LiveScience. “It’s a very energetic, gas-charged reaction that blasts its way to the Earth’s surface.”

It was one of the first times anyone had seen the sponge-like ringwoodite in anything but a meteorite or a laboratory. Formed only in conditions of extreme pressure, it is composed of 1.5 percent water and appeared to confirm that the Earth’s insides are very, very wet. “It translates into a very, very large mass of water, approaching the sort of mass of water that’s present in all the world’s ocean,” Pearson said.

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To: fishtank
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.” NKJV Gen 7:11

God said it and I believe it.
41 posted on 06/16/2015 2:50:45 PM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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To: beethovenfan
..”and THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP WERE BROKEN UP.” Genesis 7:11. Much if not most of the waters in Noah’s flood came from UNDER the earth.

There was also some sort of water canopy in the atmosphere, like a layer of water or something. It says "the waters above".
42 posted on 06/16/2015 2:56:13 PM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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California Water Cuts Leave City Days Away From Running Out Of Water


43 posted on 06/16/2015 3:06:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Theoria

Wow, thanks Theoria.

Anyway, this tired old BS crops up once in a while, so much so it has its own keyword.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ringwoodite/index


44 posted on 06/16/2015 3:08:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Red Badger
I didn't see "The Core," but loved the 1959 Disney movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth."

Nobody could speak as well as James Mason. Murdock on the "A-Team" did a good impersonation though.

45 posted on 06/16/2015 3:34:24 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 21twelve

No problem. I just hate the “no rain before the flood” argument because people cite to it with absolute moral certainty despite that there is no conclusive support one way or the other from the text. I agree with you that I actually don’t care theologically whether there was or was not, but I do care about being faithful to the text.

Rainbows post flood versus pre flood? Again, I think either reading can be justified from the text.

I hate that I can’t trust rainbows anymore.


46 posted on 06/16/2015 3:45:17 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: 21twelve

Well, the Bible says in (NIV)Genesis 1, 6-8:
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 morning—the second day.


47 posted on 06/16/2015 3:46:57 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: FateAmenableToChange

“I hate that I can’t trust rainbows anymore.”

LOL!

Nothing like walking down a city street and your toddler sees all the rainbows in the window and says “Daddy - can we go in there!?” only to find out its a gay bar.


48 posted on 06/16/2015 3:47:25 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: LibWhacker
all the oceans combined

How it would look if you combined all the oceans into one 860-mile-wide drop (with a volume of about 333m cubic miles) and were able to suspend it weightless over Kansas:


49 posted on 06/16/2015 3:57:34 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: vpintheak

“To me, this is a confirmation of the Biblical flood.”

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (Gen 7:11)

...the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up...

And earlier in Genesis, we read,

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. (Gen 2:6)

Science is at last confirming what we already knew if we were to believe what is written in God’s Word...


50 posted on 06/16/2015 4:02:17 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: cynwoody
I've seen that before. Very cool. Thanks for posting it. It actually does make me worry just a tiny bit about earth's water supply.
51 posted on 06/16/2015 4:21:16 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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To: Theoria

Thanks, I’m going to take a look at some of those this weekend when I have a little more time.


52 posted on 06/16/2015 4:23:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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To: unlearner

LOL


53 posted on 06/16/2015 4:23:26 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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To: LibWhacker

California Water Cuts Leave City Days Away From Running Out Of Water
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3300919/posts

They will just need to dig a well a bit deeper then planned.....


54 posted on 06/16/2015 4:23:47 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: LibWhacker

” The oceans weren’t perhaps the product of icy comets as earlier research theorized, but were the result of geological and tectonic activity that drove water to the surface.”

More settled science out the window.


55 posted on 06/16/2015 4:24:15 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: BenLurkin

LOL, hillarious. I’m snaggin’ it.


56 posted on 06/16/2015 4:25:44 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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To: P-Marlowe; LibWhacker
Gen 7: 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12 The rain ]fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

It explains both where the water came from and where it went. It came from "the fountains of the great deep" AND from "the floodgates (networks) of the heavens."

57 posted on 06/16/2015 5:19:40 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: ExCTCitizen
The answer to California’s water problems.

Give every Californian a spoon and tell them to start digging.....................

58 posted on 06/16/2015 5:34:38 PM PDT by varon (Para bellum)
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To: Raycpa

Jacobsen is so full of guano! He is no scientist, he is an alarmist. I don’t believe Science today, it is agenda and money driven.


59 posted on 06/16/2015 5:55:32 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: BatGuano

Scientists don’t use logical fallacies.


60 posted on 06/16/2015 6:19:55 PM PDT by Raycpa
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