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Leaking Earth could run dry
BBC ^ | Wednesday, September 8, 1999

Posted on 04/12/2006 10:01:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology have calculated that about 1.12 billion tonnes of water leaks into the Earth each year. Although a lot of water also moves in the other direction, not enough comes to the surface to balance what is lost. Eventually, lead researcher Shigenori Maruyama and his colleagues believe, all of it will disappear... His figures, which he describes as conservative, suggest the leakage has caused sea levels to drop by around 600 metres in the last 750 million years. This trend has been largely obscured in the geological record by shorter-term variations in sea levels.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs
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To: NicknamedBob

"Could this possibly mean that some water remains on (in) Venus?"

Nope.


61 posted on 04/12/2006 3:42:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

All this talk about "leaking"

er, excuse me, I think I have to go to the bathroom......


62 posted on 04/12/2006 3:50:51 PM PDT by sneakers
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To: SunkenCiv
Each day a fair amount of ice falls into the atmosphere from outer space. I have been told that house sized chunks are not uncommon. I wonder if that's enough to offset this supposed loss. Also, eventually the water has to hit a molten core. If the surface is porous enough for liquid water to seep in, it stands to reason that it is porous enough to allow water vapor to leak out where it can condense and fall as rain.
63 posted on 04/12/2006 3:51:50 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: ahayes

Speak for yourself, I am going to dig my well deeper.


64 posted on 04/12/2006 4:05:43 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (LINCOLN COUNTY RED DEVILS STATE CHAMPIONS)
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To: SunkenCiv

well in that case I suggest we melt Greenland and Antarctica so that we have enough water to go around :)


65 posted on 04/12/2006 4:06:58 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq)
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To: MikefromOhio; SunkenCiv; RightWhale

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! *Raises hand*

I can make water!




First I'll need some beer, and then ....


66 posted on 04/12/2006 4:19:25 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I don't want a World with empty dreams ... Dump the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Now! ... Farm Mars!)
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To: muir_redwoods

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1613825/posts?page=9#9


67 posted on 04/12/2006 4:19:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
"Blam, do you happen to have that glacial period flood map handy?"

Sorry, I lost it a few months ago when I took my computer to the shop for a complete 'tune-up.' (I just told them to make it work right again)

68 posted on 04/12/2006 4:26:53 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

BTW, it's linked in some of the older threads. I'll try to recapture it again if it turns up.


69 posted on 04/12/2006 4:28:38 PM PDT by blam
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To: NicknamedBob

ROFLOL....... excellent


70 posted on 04/12/2006 5:24:18 PM PDT by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: SunkenCiv
but but the global warming crowed say the oceans will rise and flood us all....I'm so confused.........
71 posted on 04/12/2006 5:27:03 PM PDT by Gone_Postal (government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take it away)
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To: Nightshift

ping...


72 posted on 04/12/2006 5:51:08 PM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping List Freepmail me if you want on or off this ping list.)
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To: blam

Thanks Blam.


73 posted on 04/12/2006 6:27:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
If that doesn't get us first, something else will, be it the atmosphere leaking away into space, the core solidifying (and stopping the magnetic field), or some stray hunk of space dust pulverizing us. The Earth is the proverbial "all the eggs in one basket".
74 posted on 04/12/2006 6:41:00 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Hegemony Cricket
Very Tom Morello like tagline. I'm sure he is a big supporter of the Islamic rage.
75 posted on 04/13/2006 5:09:53 AM PDT by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: satchmodog9

Interesting. I had to google the name Tom Morello, because (evidently) I'm so unhip my buns are about to fall off, and I didn't recognize it. I had heard of RATM, and that may have subconsciously influenced my tagline.

After looking at the Wikipedia entry for Morello, you are prolly very correct about his likely support of islamic rage.


76 posted on 04/13/2006 6:32:58 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Rage is the fuel that powers the islamic machine)
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To: Question_Assumptions

Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test
SF Chronicle | Monday, November 29, 2004 | Keay Davidson
Posted on 12/05/2004 2:17:28 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1294934/posts


77 posted on 04/13/2006 6:53:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Mr. K
I believe there was life there and the FACE at cydonia is real.

It's as real as any other natural geological formation.

(JPL images of the Cydonia region of Mars)

78 posted on 04/13/2006 8:24:18 AM PDT by wyattearp (Study! Study! Study! Or BONK, BONK, on the head!)
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To: Mr. K

Red Planet's Ancient Equator Located
Scientific American (online) | April 20, 2005 | Sarah Graham
Posted on 04/24/2005 11:18:25 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1390424/posts


79 posted on 04/13/2006 12:41:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

80 posted on 04/13/2006 12:53:13 PM PDT by Ol' Sox
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