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Researchers deny Earth had 'hellish' time

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Posted by God Save The World 2005-05-06 9:45:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well this certainly will be interesting. If the rocks were just forming, where did the oceans come from and what held them apart?

Seems this may totally invalidate current theories as to the beginning of life, no?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-05-06 10:45|| 2005-05-06 10:45|| Front Page Top

#2 First the earth cooled. Then the dinosaurs came. But they got big and fat and turned into oil. Then came the Arabs who all drive Mercedes Benzes...

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-06 10:48|| 2005-05-06 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Insert between ''fat'' and ''and''.

died

Posted by .com 2005-05-06 10:56|| 2005-05-06 10:56|| Front Page Top

#4 .com, what? They ate too many strawberries? Static electricity zapped'em? Give me a sign. ;-)

You're not saying they were all cooked by volcanic eruptions?

The one thing I know is that some of them would not be able to be so big at the present gravity. For the land animals, elephant is as big as it gets. The recorded max. is about 11 metric tons and 4 m. The same dimensions apply to mammoth.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 14:44|| 2005-05-06 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 AlanC, no. It invalidates the accretion disk theory. It may be interpreted that the earth was made in a blink in the present composition and that it cooled down very fast, perhaps a few 1ky.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 14:48|| 2005-05-06 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 ''But they got big and fat and turned into oil.''

But they got big and fat, died, and turned into oil.

The image in the link. Did you look? Heh, one of those SomethingAwful pic themes. Some of the best Photoshoppers alive hang out thereabouts...

Posted by .com 2005-05-06 14:51|| 2005-05-06 14:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Hokay, that they got big and fat, died, makes sense.

Turning into oil, though ... There is a huge graveyard of dinos in Gobi. You find tons of them skeletons over each other, but no oil.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 15:19|| 2005-05-06 15:19|| Front Page Top

#8 I should've just shut up...

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-06 15:20|| 2005-05-06 15:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Nice site, .com, thanks!

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 15:21|| 2005-05-06 15:21|| Front Page Top

#10 No, no! tu, not at all. I like your streamlined Connections. Proceed. ;-)

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 15:24|| 2005-05-06 15:24|| Front Page Top

#11 So we add ''and fell into a swamp'' between...
;-)

Posted by .com 2005-05-06 16:14|| 2005-05-06 16:14|| Front Page Top

#12 um.
it was from Airplane. :)

Posted by eLarson 2005-05-06 16:24|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-05-06 16:24|| Front Page Top

#13 DING! We have a winner!

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-06 16:30|| 2005-05-06 16:30|| Front Page Top

#14 While ABC news sees no reason to differentiate one rock from another, here is a link for the more scientifically inclined. The sheep station where the rocks were found is a real science hotspot. 2 next generation radio astromy projects are located there.

Posted by phil_b 2005-05-06 17:24|| 2005-05-06 17:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Phil, appreciated #1 link.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 18:53|| 2005-05-06 18:53|| Front Page Top

#16 Phil - What's a ''Ga''? (I'm assuming a unit of measure... but of what?) I'm no geologist, so I'm having some difficulty sussing what they are talking about on your first link.

Posted by eLarson 2005-05-06 19:24|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-05-06 19:24|| Front Page Top

#17 eLarson, same as Gyr. (Giga-anni/Giga-years), IOW. billion of years.
Myr = (Mega) million years
Kyr = (Kilo) thousand years

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 19:52|| 2005-05-06 19:52|| Front Page Top

#18 Just for completion, Tyr would be Tera-years = trillion.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 19:54|| 2005-05-06 19:54|| Front Page Top

#19

Turning into oil, though ... There is a huge graveyard of dinos in Gobi. You find tons of them skeletons over each other, but no oil.

I was under the impression that there was oil in the Gobi Desert, and that oil exploration there was still ongoing. Remember, the oil is liquid, it seeps away, leaving the bones in place. :-)

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-06 20:04|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-05-06 20:04|| Front Page Top

#20 Phil, The oils that is found in Gobi is on the eastern boundary. The dinos are located in western portion. The bedrock is fairly even, so one would expect the oil to be found anywhere. Yea, and Gobi is big. It would be like saying that because there are dinos found in Utah, it is connected to oil fields in Northern Texas.

Sure oil is liquid, but the funny thing is that it seeps upward. Even more funny thing is that it has been located at great depths, without a trace of residual crushed biota. The more it is located toward surface, the more remnants of bacteria and other, mostly monocellular biota is found. Logically, it has been exposed to these critters because of the proximity.

I don't want to exlude dinos, it may be considered profiling... ;-)

But the above seem to suggest that we did not nail the origins of the substance down.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-06 20:59|| 2005-05-06 20:59|| Front Page Top

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