• Hidden 'Ocean' Discovered Deep Underground Near Earth's Core
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[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/hidden-ocean-earth-core-underground-video_n_5491692.html"]Source[/URL] [QUOTE] We may have another "ocean" to add to the world map -- only this one is hidden hundreds of miles beneath our planet's surface. A new study suggests that a hidden "ocean" is nestled in the Earth's mantle some 400 miles beneath North America. The hidden reservoir, apparently locked in a blue crystalline mineral called ringwoodite, may hold three times as much water that exists in all the world's surface oceans. This discovery may help explain where Earth's water supply came from, and how subterranean water affects the shifting of rock in the Earth's outer crust -- a phenomenon scientists call plate tectonics. [...] So, according to the research, the hidden "ocean" may be trapped in the transition zone between the Earth's upper and lower mantle. The researchers think that movement within the mantle spurred a reaction that led the water to merge with the ringwoodite.[/QUOTE] So much we don't know about our own planet.
[QUOTE]A new study suggests that a hidden "ocean" is nestled in the Earth's mantle some 400 miles beneath North America.[/QUOTE] what
imagine what life would look like if it is/could live there you think the shit in the deep sea looks weird? Multiply that by a 400 times the weird
It's not an ocean like you'd think. It's a mineral. You can't swim in it.
This is from June, and saying hydrates are an ocean is like saying olive oil is petroleum.
Blimey that's a lot of water-based mineral. Thankfully it's not just a ton of water encased in the material like a paintball, since letting that much pure water out onto the surface would probably drown us all.
[QUOTE=OvB;46373694]It's not an ocean like you'd think. It's a mineral. You can't swim in it.[/QUOTE] Geezus Marie.
It's about 1600C at that depth.
[QUOTE=ironman17;46373719]since letting that much pure water out onto the surface would probably drown us all.[/QUOTE] Yes, it would. There would be no more land.
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[QUOTE=ironman17;46373719]Blimey that's a lot of water-based mineral. Thankfully it's not just a ton of water encased in the material like a paintball, since letting that much pure water out onto the surface would probably drown us all.[/QUOTE] Thanks for the revelation chief
[QUOTE=OvB;46373787]Yes, it would. There would be no more land.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Waterworld.jpg[/IMG]
So is it extractable? If so, we're goddamn rich.
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;46373790][t]http://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/covers/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-dvd-cover-29.jpg[/t] Lets get going guys![/QUOTE] Please, not that effing movie...
[QUOTE=01271;46373868]So is it extractable? If so, we're goddamn rich.[/QUOTE] [quote] nestled in the Earth's mantle some 400 miles beneath North America.[/quote] The deepest well humanity has ever drilled is not even 8 miles deep. So no. [editline]30th October 2014[/editline] (even if it was liquid)
[QUOTE=Soukuw;46373854][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Waterworld.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Except way worse, since even Everest would be many miles under, and you'd probably be able to SEE the sea levels rising pretty damn quickly. We wouldn't even be able to evacuate to the outer colonies since we don't even have a goodamn Moonbase (thanks Nixon). To be frank, the thought of the world being completely drowned was an old childhood fear of mine, along with falling into the sky.
[QUOTE=OvB;46373694]It's not an ocean like you'd think. It's a mineral. You can't swim in it.[/QUOTE] That's like when people think oil is stored in lakes underground.
[QUOTE=OvB;46373694]It's not an ocean like you'd think. It's a mineral. You can't swim in it.[/QUOTE] Try and stop me.
Below north America? Dibs! All for USA
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;46374118]Below north America? Dibs! All for USA[/QUOTE] The world's hottest pool party.
[QUOTE=OvB;46373694]It's not an ocean like you'd think. It's a mineral. You can't swim in it.[/QUOTE] so what youre saying is, the fish down there must be REALLY weird??
[QUOTE=Soukuw;46373854][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Waterworld.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] No toupées on Waterworld!
I wonder if any young earth creationists have jumped on this as evidence for the Noacian flood.
This is really about as far as you can get from the earth's core without actually being on the surface.
[QUOTE=OvB;46373888]The deepest well humanity has ever drilled is not even 8 miles deep. So no. [editline]30th October 2014[/editline] (even if it was liquid)[/QUOTE] What if we drilled down like 5 miles, and then just started repeatedly dropping nukes down the hole? If Worms: Armageddon had accurate physics, it should work.
[QUOTE=nikomo;46376277]What if we drilled down like 5 miles, and then just started repeatedly dropping nukes down the hole? If Worms: Armageddon had accurate physics, it should work.[/QUOTE] How dare you even imply specks of land floating in the air and sheep flying is not true physics.
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