Posted on 05/01/2019 10:48:23 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Still find that very hard to believe.
I’m a simple person. I believe God put it there.
It amazes me to the degree of absurdity scientists will go to make up their BS theories as they deny God’s creation. God created the water, the air and the earth itself. PERIOD!
It’s unclear to me what they are saying. Are they saying deuterium was the water native to the ancient Earth and the H2O came later from asteroids and other objects?
Most water contains one atom of oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen: H2O. But some water contains deuterium instead of conventional hydrogen. It's a heavier version of hydrogen that has an extra neutron at the center. When scientists find the source of Earth's water, they expect it will match the fraction of deuterium that scientists observe in Earth's oceans today. But measuring that is tricky to do without physical samples like those from Itokawa.
The ratio of regular water to heavy water doesn't match, but A) the asteroid has no atmosphere, so weathering in space (a real thing) has altered it, and B) not all the water was delivered from space, but if half of the water came from impacts, the ratio averages correctly. :^) A better test would be to snag those house-sized chunks of ice that continually hit the Earth's atmosphere and shatter at (usually) very high altitude, and see what the ratios are.
:^)
You are right the earth should look just like the moon all pock marked with craters except we have two things the moon does not. Weather and therefore erosion and plate tectonics which means the surface of the earth not only moves but the 70% of it that’s ocean crust gets eventually subducted and recycled by the mantle. No portion of oceanic crust on the planet is older than 180 ish million years compared to the continental cratons that are 2 billion years or so old. For those curious yes I am a geologist by profession cheers :-)
Don’t tell the homeopathics,
it’ll just encourage them.
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