We started fencing if you will when you disagreed with my statement about tectonic plates, and, as a side note, I openly apologize for my lack articulation skills attempting to debate something. but in a last attempt to do so, my point is if there are moving areas of the crust on this planet, it is IMHO impossible for that amount of water to be down there where there is movement. If there is, it would be under an extreme amount of pressure that would actually send the earth out of it orbit if released in the right direction!! just sayin!!
Obviously you have not dug post holes in MY backyard!
Obviously you have not dug post holes in MY backyard!
Statements similar to this have been made about my stored gases.
My aim is at the author for stating [...]
Thank you for stating this!
This is a common problem here at FR. When attacking the article or the author of the article, many FReepers erroneously reply to someone in the thread who had made a (relatively) innocuous comment. That "someone" then rightly feels attacked. Please avoid doing this and/or make it clear to whom you are actually addressing your complaints!
[...] more water is under the surface of the planet than there is on the surface!! That statement alone should have someone of your intellect going after them instead of me!! It's physically impossible!
First of all, the main article cleverly refrains from clearly stating its true objective. Rather, it merely notes the "discovery" of ringwoodite and then sits back and waits for "Bible apologists" (I am intentionally using a provocative expression here; it refers to people who think that the miraculous events mentioned in the Bible need subsequent scientific explanation, thus implying that the Bible is somehow "defective" until such explanations are proffered) to show up and crow, "Hallelujah! The Bible isn't as ridiculous and unbelievable after all!"
And that is namely the pernicious mindset which such articles foster!
That is why I am "breaking a lance" against this article!
But, at the same time, I didn't want to become mired in a long, tedious discussion - on the article's own turf! - about the quantity of water, etc. That would have been a distraction and a diversion - and, worse, it would have played into the hands of the aforementioned pernicious mindset!
[...] someone of your intellect [...]
It probably wasn't your intention, but I'll take a compliment whenever I can get one! (smiley icon)
Regards,