Ask a geologist thread

[mistermack]

If the Earth was expanding at the rate that they claim, there is NO WAY that we would have oceans, or an atmosphere now. The pull of gravity years ago would have been much too small to keep gases from floating off into space. And I'm pretty sure that that would include water vapour.

So unless there was some way that the Earth has been losing density to expand, then it's impossible.
The core would have to be something pretty odd for that to happen.

Eh? The tinfoil hat crowd's idea is that the earth has been gaining mass, causing it to expand, thus increasing gravity, which would trap the atmosphere even more strongly, as well as making it harder for me to crawl out of bed in the a.m., which seems to fit, now that I think of it.

Yeh but, yeh but, if gravity has been increasing at that sort of rate, then it must have been much LESS years ago.
So all of the oceans and atmosphere would have disappeared long ago.

[Faithfree]

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By the way, I do accept in the expanding arse theory .... we have good empirical evidence!

[Tero]

How come I find seashells in Missouri? The nearest ocean is more than a mile away. (Considerably more.)

Not only that, we hace seagulls too! I call them land(fill)gulls.

[FBM]

If the Earth was expanding at the rate that they claim, there is NO WAY that we would have oceans, or an atmosphere now. The pull of gravity years ago would have been much too small to keep gases from floating off into space. And I'm pretty sure that that would include water vapour.

So unless there was some way that the Earth has been losing density to expand, then it's impossible.
The core would have to be something pretty odd for that to happen.

Eh? The tinfoil hat crowd's idea is that the earth has been gaining mass, causing it to expand, thus increasing gravity, which would trap the atmosphere even more strongly, as well as making it harder for me to crawl out of bed in the a.m., which seems to fit, now that I think of it.

Yeh but, yeh but, if gravity has been increasing at that sort of rate, then it must have been much LESS years ago.
So all of the oceans and atmosphere would have disappeared long ago.

No, no, no. You see, you're discounting the recycling of the pair produced fundamental particles by their being somehow tunneled back to the Earth's core. That keeps the atmosphere local, right? No time for it to go buzzing off into outer space. It's busy creating mass out of nothing right here at home.

[Svartalf]

How come I find seashells in Missouri? The nearest ocean is more than a mile away. (Considerably more.)

Not only that, we hace seagulls too! I call them land(fill)gulls.

We have seagulls in Paris too... always wondered if they come straight from the Normandy coast (a somewhat long trip), or from the Seine estuary along the river (an even longer one)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How come I find seashells in Missouri? The nearest ocean is more than a mile away. (Considerably more.)

Not only that, we hace seagulls too! I call them land(fill)gulls.

We have seagulls in Paris too... always wondered if they come straight from the Normandy coast (a somewhat long trip), or from the Seine estuary along the river (an even longer one)

They made it over the Rockies to Utah. Assuming they were gone for time after the inland sea dried up, that is.

[mistermack]

If the Earth was expanding at the rate that they claim, there is NO WAY that we would have oceans, or an atmosphere now. The pull of gravity years ago would have been much too small to keep gases from floating off into space. And I'm pretty sure that that would include water vapour.

So unless there was some way that the Earth has been losing density to expand, then it's impossible.
The core would have to be something pretty odd for that to happen.

Eh? The tinfoil hat crowd's idea is that the earth has been gaining mass, causing it to expand, thus increasing gravity, which would trap the atmosphere even more strongly, as well as making it harder for me to crawl out of bed in the a.m., which seems to fit, now that I think of it.

Yeh but, yeh but, if gravity has been increasing at that sort of rate, then it must have been much LESS years ago.
So all of the oceans and atmosphere would have disappeared long ago.

No, no, no. You see, you're discounting the recycling of the pair produced fundamental particles by their being somehow tunneled back to the Earth's core. That keeps the atmosphere local, right? No time for it to go buzzing off into outer space. It's busy creating mass out of nothing right here at home.

You know what, that makes a lot of sense.
And the final proof has to be dinosaurs, which could not possibly have been able to stand up, with all that weight, if gravity hadn't been loads lower. And terry dactyls could never have flown in today's gravity.
It absolutely all dovetails.
It's probably crystals causing it, in the center of the Earth. Pyramid shaped crystals.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

*pictures seismosaurus pirouetting like the hippos in Fantasia*

[FBM]

Hahahaha!!! Busted!!! Stoopid scientists!!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 120606.htm

Plate Tectonics Cannot Explain Dynamics of Earth and Crust Formation More Than Three Billion Years Ago

[Thinking Aloud]

Hahahaha!!! Busted!!! Stoopid scientists!!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 120606.htm

Plate Tectonics Cannot Explain Dynamics of Earth and Crust Formation More Than Three Billion Years Ago

Possibly not.

[mistermack]

Hahahaha!!! Busted!!! Stoopid scientists!!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 120606.htm

Plate Tectonics Cannot Explain Dynamics of Earth and Crust Formation More Than Three Billion Years Ago

Possibly not.

Did anybody say that it could?

[Thinking Aloud]

Hahahaha!!! Busted!!! Stoopid scientists!!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 120606.htm

Plate Tectonics Cannot Explain Dynamics of Earth and Crust Formation More Than Three Billion Years Ago

Possibly not.

Did anybody say that it could?

In the same way that evolution can explain the formation of the universe, plate tectonics has been operating since before the sun condensed.