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To: timer

Y' mean it's really OUR cheese, and now it's our Extra Cheese...?


16 posted on 12/28/2004 11:24:25 AM PST by PoorMuttly ("The sword is not the cause of murder, and there is no sin upon him who made it.")
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To: PoorMuttly

Yes, the extra "cheese" on the cheeseburger is the proto-earth's ring system that was perturbed(dropped)out of orbit 4.4 billion years ago by the newly captured moon; that layer of hydrate-rich planetisimals/wet gravel eventually became, after 500,000,000 years of tectonic massaging, our oceans and lightweight continents; and we're part of the "mice" that nibble on it. The moon and earth surfaces have the same isotope ratios in the refractory elements, but the planetisimals that impacted the moon were FRIED and so the volatiles(H2O, NH3, etc)were boiled off the lunar surface which was griddle-HOT during this bull-in-a-china-shop period. Wanna know how the moon was taffy-pulled-captured? That's an interesting story in itself(it WASN'T impact-splash). And speaking of CHEESE, my mouse traps with cheese-bait are doing a land office business these winter-soltice days : about one "customer" a day...


17 posted on 12/28/2004 5:10:32 PM PST by timer
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