Are you really this ignorant of Science or are you just pretending as Mr.B postulated?
Perhaps you are unaware of Astronomical spectroscopy?
Spectroscopy can determine the atomic composition of a substance that absorbs and emits light. Based upon this we know the composition of Saturn to be ~96% Hydrogen (H2), 3% Helium,~0.4% Methane, ~0.01% Ammonia, ~0.01% Hydrogen deuteride. This mixture is indeed lighter than water.
If you have problems with Spectroscopy perhaps you should take it up with Newton along with your ‘corrections’ of his mistaken notions about gravity.
How do you know that the entire planet has this composition?
GourmetDan wins in a landslide - again! He enjoys research and learning, likes to teach, and most importantly backs-up what he is saying w/ details. He has responded to nearly every inquiry allmendream has posed with numerous links, sources, quotes and a rich and wide variety of information. I’ll be busy reading and absorbing from his links for quite awhile.
Freedom of speech is truly one of the greatest rights to be shared. Thank God for the internet and esp. FR for widening the use of this basic right.
Allmendream where are your links, sources or even just some of the assumptions present in astronomical spectroscopy?
How accurate is spectrospcopy detection of light emission and absorbtion at astronomically greater and greater distances?
Would the gases listed only comprise Saturn’s atmosphere? Not the core?
Or do we know w/o any reservations that Saturn is completely gaseous (noting eerily similarity to the ‘well-reasoned expert’ evos posting here)!?
True knowledge is conveyed with sound reasoning, logic, and details not ‘high-falutin brow-beatin’ amidst thick layers of condescension using popular opinions. The scientific method works best when all reasonable trains of thought are open for consideration. You can argue against mountains of ‘evidence’ but all the assumptions must be unearthed first.
Is the Earth truly revolving around 1 thousand mph and orbiting nearly 70k mph? With no noticeable effects? Neither here on solid ground, nor while orbiting? The astronauts described orbit it as a peaceful floating sensation - things that make you go hmmm...
A similar thread occurred over a year ago and GourmetDan more than handled the evos then too. See link below...
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/pings?more=185420106
Course none of this matters if you can so easily dismiss God (as evos so often do) - where Jonno so eloquently pointed out the obvious in post 273.