Scientists have discovered a new ocean inside the Earth's mantle!

[cm81]

An interesting thing to discover, after recently having learned that the Earth's water is older than the sun.

Makes me think of Genesis 1:2

 

[kyuuei]

I had juust seen this. Pretty awesome stuff!! I always thought how weird it was how "little" my parents knew when I was in school.. they couldn't help me with much of my tutoring as a middle schooler because there just wasn't that much theory and .. Stuff.. when they were in school. It's interesting how we're experiencing things now.

I was teaching my nephew the planets today, and the solar system chart excluded pluto.. and we had to make a tiny planet and stick it there and say, "This Might be a planet, we don't know yet, but it's name is Pluto."

 

[cm81]

Haha, that's cute. Pluto is still a planet, even thought it's now considered a dwarf.

 

[Evee]

Enough water to re-fill our oceans three times over..

O ______________ O

 

[cm81]

Mirific, isn't it? It beyond amazes me; the universe is made of water and sound.


So long as the lockness Penis isn't real.....

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

very cool

 

[Evee]

Mirific, isn't it?

It's merific : P

 

[kyuuei]

Haha, that's cute. Pluto is still a planet, even thought it's now considered a dwarf.

Yeah experts disagree on what exactly constitutes a planet still.. little details get argued over, but the consensus when I was graduating was "No" and now that I'm teaching my nephews it's "Yeah, I guess it is." hahaha.

Enough water to re-fill our oceans three times over..

O ______________ O

Omg I know.. It is one of those stats that is so enormous that you just can't imagine it.

I used to think tsunamis were Japanese-picture-style.. a huge, rolling wave, that brings a mass of instant destruction along with it. Youtube has a video of a real tsunami coming in.. and it's completely different than I'd ever pictured it as a kid/teen, and yet it had its own sense of terror.

 

[cm81]

There's no way we can wrap our heads, fully, around these things. Considering a million seconds is twelve days ago.... 3 times the entire containment of the earth's ocean water tucked inside the mantel.... mind boggling, though I wouldn't protest inclusion in any upcoming expeditions. Steven Spielberg should make another movie.

 

[Adam]

It's not liquid water.

Located 400 miles (660 km) beneath Earth's crust, this body of water is locked up in a blue mineral called ringwoodite that lies in the transition zone of hot rock between Earth's surface and core.

 

[cm81]

It's not liquid water.

"this body of water is locked up in a blue mineral called ringwoodite" It doesn't make it any less fascinating.

 

[Adam]

"this body of water is locked up in a blue mineral called ringwoodite" It doesn't make it any less fascinating.

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[...] 3 times the entire containment of the earth's ocean water tucked inside the mantel.... mind boggling, though I wouldn't protest inclusion in any upcoming expeditions. Steven Spielberg should make another movie.

 

[cm81]

Could an eye roll harder.

EDIT: I remember the day I learned why the sky was blue; appreciating the science, I chose wonder.

 

[cm81]

It's merific : P

That's unfortunate you're wrong

 

[Habba]

Humans have 60 to 70% of their total body weight in water. This mineral zone has less than 3%.

 

[Cellmold]

I'm waiting for the one where we discover all living creatures in the universe are made from thoughts and air.

The thoughts and air of a fat man named phil. Move over stardust....phil is here.

 

[Evee]

That's unfortunate you're wrong

 

[GarrotTheThief]

Aww man bobby is a legend. I'd drink all the water in the ocean and ride moby dick to unicorn land just to watch him cross the street from a distance, once.

 

[cm81]

I appreciate the lenitive subtly of your dracocephalum parviflorum amphibolous point, but it won't stop me from dancing.

 

[Yaru]

I often feel like crying when I learn about stuff like this or when I look at pictures of the universe. I am such a kid.