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The Moon WASN'T formed with one giant impact but had a bombardment birth after 20 moonlets hit...
Daily Mail ^
| January 9 2017
| AFP
Posted on 03/18/2018 6:36:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: CurlyDave
You’re correct, it’s compound. And it is the most abundant. It’s everywhere.
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03/19/2018 5:49:11 PM PDT
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jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: jmacusa
...And it is the most abundant. Its everywhere... Only on the surface. The 10 most abundant elements on earth: https://education.jlab.org/glossary/abund_ele.html Hydrogen comes in at number 10 with 0.14%. While Oxygen is number 1 at 46.1%. Since water is H2O water is way down there on the abundance list.
Water its just less dense than most of the things the earth is made of and floats to the surface.
To: CurlyDave
Really? It just floats to the surface? Fifteen minutes from where I live are The Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Underneath the Pine barrens, according to the experts is one of the largest underwater aquifers in the United States. It's estimated there is some four trillion gallons of fresh water sitting below the soil in The Pineys.
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posted on
03/19/2018 8:30:04 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: jmacusa
...Fifteen minutes from where I live are The Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Underneath the Pine barrens, according to the experts is one of the largest underwater aquifers in the United States. It's estimated there is some four trillion gallons of fresh water sitting below the soil in The Pineys. If you point your finger straight down, from anywhere you sit, the center of the earth is 4000 miles in that direction.
ALL of the water on earth is in the top few miles of that, the rest is rock, and maybe a molten iron core.
As you may have noticed, rock is more dense than water. Now, on geologic and cosmologic time scales, rock is actually fluid, which is why planets (and the moon) are spherical. If the rock could not flow they would be quite lumpy.
In the high pressures and temperatures the rock is a fluid that is more dense than water, so the water floats to the top. This is just like oil or gasoline floating on water.
The rock under the pine barrens is porous and the water is in the pores. There is not a vast underground lake like Lake Superior under your feet in some kind of cavern. Four trillion gallons of water is like someone passing gas in a tornado compared to the mass of the earth.
To: CurlyDave
Not according to the experts here.
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posted on
03/20/2018 11:35:41 AM PDT
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jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: CurlyDave
And not only is the water collecting in subterranean pools, there's more than 4 trillion gallons. Figures put it at 17.7 trillion.
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posted on
03/20/2018 11:43:42 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Steve_Seattle
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posted on
05/01/2018 8:27:19 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: SunkenCiv
One of many “Theories”....and that is all it is!!!
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posted on
05/02/2018 8:00:08 AM PDT
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ontap
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