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Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: videoholic on June 28, 2002, 10:26:57 AM
http://bioresonant.com/news.htm

Short read.  Global warming is causeing the earth\'s inner core to also get hotter.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: square_marker on June 28, 2002, 10:33:15 AM
If it does....well it wont be in our life time.  If anything, i bet the sun will blow/die or how ever stars lose their energy before the earth ever experiences any of that.

EDIT:  The writer of this article seems that he is being a bit jermatic in all of this.  In the next decade...oh come on.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Coredweller on June 28, 2002, 10:43:07 AM
Interesting, they don\'t seem to be selling anything.  They\'re just a friendly neighborhood coalition of ordinary people dedicated to STOPPING THE WORLD FROM EXPLODING.  I guess I\'m glad someone\'s working on that.  Still, they say

"To withhold, distort or otherwise interfere with the Truth about the Planetary Core is a Crime Against Humanity - one of the greatest crimes that man can commit. Please copy and print this page and this article before they will become assassinated."  

Someone\'s going to be assassinated for trying to prevent the world from exploding?  I wonder how they got that idea?
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: CygnusXI on June 28, 2002, 11:32:20 AM
Planet X (Phobos) will kill us all next year anyway...
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Cerberus on June 28, 2002, 11:35:58 AM
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Originally posted by CygnusXI
Planet X (Phobos) will kill us all next year anyway...


Phobos isn\'t a planet, it\'s a moon, the largest of 2, orbiting Mars.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: CygnusXI on June 28, 2002, 12:32:51 PM
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Phobos isn\'t a planet, it\'s a moon, the largest of 2, orbiting Mars.


Yeah, I know..... that\'s supposed to be the joke.

You see, there are people out there that think it\'s a planet, AND under alien control. It left it\'s orbit awhile ago and is headed here!!

RUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!!!!!!:lol
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: The Stapler on June 28, 2002, 01:42:11 PM
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Originally posted by CygnusXI
Yeah, I know..... that\'s supposed to be the joke.

You see, there are people out there that think it\'s a planet, AND under alien control. It left it\'s orbit awhile ago and is headed here!!

RUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!!!!!!:lol


Really? That sounds interesting, do you have any other info on it?
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Shadwhawk on June 28, 2002, 03:54:09 PM
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Short read. Global warming is causeing the earth\'s inner core to also get hotter.


Quite frankly, that\'s extraordinarily ignorant.

You see, heat transfers only one way: from warm areas to cold areas.  You cannot heat up something that\'s 300 degres with something that\'s 50 degrees.
Just a few dozen miles down, rock is glowing with the heat.  A few more dozen miles down, and you\'re into the molten rock that makes up the mantle.  Hundreds, thousands of degrees.  Earth\'s heat transfer is quite steadily outwards from the core, and will be that way until the decaying radioactives driving the planet\'s heating finally run out.

The hottest sun-powered temperature ever recorded on Earth was about 121 degrees F.  Lava runs upwards of 800 degrees.  
Any heating done by the sun during the day is bled off during night, although atmospheric conditions will affect this.  This is why deserts can be 110 degrees in the daytime, yet be freezing at night--the clear air lets heat radiate into space quite readily.
The miniscule amount of heat that the sun transfers to Earth every day is retransmitted back into space every night.  The amount of heat that bleeds off the core to the planet\'s surface is likewise transmitted into space at night.  The planet has long been at thermal equilibrium.


Blowing up Earth (Alderaan-style), would require  sudden energy increase of 1e38 joules--about what the entire sun produces in 7 years.  23 sextillion megatons.
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Post by: Fayded on June 28, 2002, 03:59:18 PM
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Originally posted by Shadwhawk


The hottest sun-powered temperature ever recorded on Earth was about 121 degrees F.  



That can\'t be right. The high in Arizona was 122 one day. And i think I read that Death Valley got up to 130...


But i could be wrong...
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Shadwhawk on June 28, 2002, 04:07:13 PM
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That can\'t be right. The high in Arizona was 122 one day. And i think I read that Death Valley got up to 130...


Well, I might be off by a few degrees, but my general point still stands.  140 degree surface temperature is nothing compared to deep crust temperature, let alone core temperature.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Fayded on June 28, 2002, 04:13:57 PM
Yeah I understand, but i just felt like being a jackass. :D
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: square_marker on June 28, 2002, 04:46:49 PM
zhit, why do i have a feeling that this is one of those threads that will turn into how life was started crapola.

NE way, im more scared about this moon hitting us than anything else, is there a source to that info?
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on June 28, 2002, 07:34:33 PM
if ever the world was feared to blow up, The Hurricane would save the day!
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Soul Reaver on June 28, 2002, 07:40:17 PM
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Originally posted by "The One" Billy Gunn
if ever the world was feared to blow up, The Hurricane would save the day!


Your taking the whole superhero business too serioulsy. :nerd:
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: on June 28, 2002, 07:48:04 PM
Yeah I think the world could possibly blow up. They did it on the cartoons, why not?
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: square_marker on June 28, 2002, 08:46:00 PM
SPAM: just give the hurricane a lemon smoothie

POST:  Well if the earth blows, i am quite sure it will be a quick death for all of us.  Thats always something to look forward to.


WHAT IN THE HELL DID I JUST SAY!

i think my jello is getting to me.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: EmperorRob on June 28, 2002, 11:35:29 PM
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Originally posted by Fayded
Yeah I understand, but i just felt like being a jackass. :D
You\'re definitely an overachiever
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: luckee on June 28, 2002, 11:39:20 PM
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Originally posted by EmperorRob
You\'re definitely an overachiever


well..if any consolation..he did have a valid point this time :)
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on June 29, 2002, 08:01:22 AM
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Originally posted by Soul Reaver


Your taking the whole superhero business too serioulsy. :nerd:


Too seriously?  WHAT\'S UP WIT DAT????
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Titan on June 29, 2002, 08:13:33 AM
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Originally posted by square_marker
If it does....well it wont be in our life time.  If anything, i bet the sun will blow/die or how ever stars lose their energy before the earth ever experiences any of that.

EDIT:  The writer of this article seems that he is being a bit jermatic in all of this.  In the next decade...oh come on.



The sun will first become a red giant within the next 4-5 billion years. Doing this, it will engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Then a couple billion years later, it will super nova and create a black hole (if they exist).
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Tyrant on June 29, 2002, 08:20:48 AM
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Originally posted by Titan



The sun will first become a red giant within the next 4-5 billion years. Doing this, it will engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Then a couple billion years later, it will super nova and create a black hole (if they exist).
our sun will never be a blackhole heck it wouldnt even be able to reach the supernova stage, but u r right about it engulfing all tose planets but after that it will slowly start to contract.
:)
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Titan on June 29, 2002, 08:34:37 AM
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Originally posted by Tyrant_246
our sun will never be a blackhole heck it wouldnt even be able to reach the supernova stage, but u r right about it engulfing all tose planets but after that it will slowly start to contract.
:)


No, your wrong. Every star ends in super nova.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Tyrant on June 29, 2002, 08:42:38 AM
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Originally posted by Titan


No, your wrong. Every star ends in super nova.

for a supernova to occur the star has to be atleast 5 times as big as our sun.our sun will only end as a white or black (not sure) dwarf.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Titan on June 29, 2002, 08:51:47 AM
The sun expands into a red giant. Its not a hypotheses, it\'s what actually happens. Everytime a super nova occurs, it was a red giant. ALL STARS BECOME RED GIANTS!!! After that, they explode.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Tyrant on June 29, 2002, 08:54:12 AM
i never said it wont become a red gaint.
u know let me find u a link or somethin just give me a few minutes:).
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Titan on June 29, 2002, 08:57:08 AM
I\'m looking up stuff as I post this.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Tyrant on June 29, 2002, 08:59:38 AM
ok here it is click me (http://library.thinkquest.org/26220/stars/formation.html) ,just scroll down to the death stage of a star

now admit it i was right and you were wrong ---j/k;).
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: fastson on June 29, 2002, 09:04:29 AM
Bwahah.. No..

Kiddish!
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Titan on June 29, 2002, 09:06:09 AM
That explains what a red giant is.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/ast99/ast99028.htm
Here\'s something that supports your arguement
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/redgia.html
Maybe you were right. I\'m still looking up stuff to support mine.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Tyrant on June 29, 2002, 09:09:30 AM
heres one morehttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/stars/lifecycle/.
edit- man what a coincidence we both posted the same link:eyemouth:
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Titan on June 29, 2002, 09:10:37 AM
Found something else

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971016.html

This supports mine

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/stars/lifecycle/
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Titan on June 29, 2002, 09:12:48 AM
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Originally posted by Tyrant_246
heres one morehttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/stars/lifecycle/.


Actually, that supports both of ours. Neutron stars are pieces of a star after it super nova. So actually, both of us are right. But who cares. We\'ll be dead by the time this happens.
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Titan on June 29, 2002, 09:14:27 AM
One more

http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/star_intro.html#giants
Title: Do you think the earth could explode?
Post by: Tyrant on June 29, 2002, 09:15:00 AM
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Originally posted by Titan


Actually, that supports both of ours. Neutron stars are pieces of a star after it super nova. So actually, both of us are right. But who cares. We\'ll be dead by the time this happens.

TRUE DAT!