underground ocean
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- utopian0
Middle Earth, I knew it!
- GeorgesII0
- I knew it
http://www.chronicle…GeorgesII - no night time would suckcannonball1978
- plants couldnt grow without night time / photosynthesismoldero
- I knew it
- detritus0
why is this coming up again all of a sudden - the sci rags were all over it about three weeks ago?
it's been totally misconstrued in most quarters, as if there's some mass of free-flowing water down there - all it's really saying is that there are rock types that contain water... so fuck?
Hydrogen and Oxygen are two of the three most common elements in the universe - why is anyone surprised that the large mass of stuff under our feet contains some tiny perentage of the stuff in a stable common form?
- i_monk0
^ These are the same people who "fucking love science".
- detritus0
FROM NOW ON, THE ONLY SCIENCE NEWS I WANT IS THE ONE THAT INVOLVES ANTI-GRAVITY BOOTS, YA'HEAR?
- GeorgesII0
the comments on that link are priceless,
- reanimate0
What if life developed (and still lives) inside the Earth rather than on the surface?
- why would it have stoppedcannonball1978
- it did and it does. They've found traces of life miles down in South African diamond mines.detritus
- ..and then the russians have that whole abiotic origin of oil theory too...detritus
- monospaced0
Based solely on the terrible writing, bad grammar and inconsistent statistical measurements, I'd say this is total bullshit. Reads like it was written by an excited, yet clever, 12 year old child at best.
- monospaced0
Alas. Ringwoodite is a real thing. Can hold up to 2.6% H2O.
- Krassy0
so the Earth is not flat with scorching hot Hell underground?
- GeorgesII0
from reddit comment
"A huge amount of water has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface. Not an ocean of liquid water, but ocean-scale amounts of water trapped inside the lattice of ringwoodite crystals."
http://www.sciencemag.org/conten…
http://www.nature.com/nature/jou…
- ernexbcn0
Ocean was cool when it was underground.