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Explaining the Expanding Earth!

by tagiscom
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Fascinating!

  • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
    So the Earth is hollow and filled with gas.

    Brilliant.
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    • Profile picture of the author kenmichaels
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      So the Earth is hollow and filled with gas.
      Just like you ...
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        Even the "Flat Earth Society" people talk more sense than this guy.


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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Um...........
    Uh..........

    Shane - I'm not sure what to say here. Don't want to hurt feelings, Shane, but this dude is a certifiable froot loop and I'm not sure whether you're being funny or you actually found something interesting about his thought processes? At this point about the only comment I feel solid about making is WTF?
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Its all to do with String theory. A giant piece of mile wide string has been spotted coming out of the north pole extending a thousand miles into space, thus proving the Earth is a giant balloon. Any alien attack would just involve inserting a giant pin through the Earth's crust which would pop the planet.

      Seriously, the iron core that creates the magnetic field seems to have vanished in this guys theory. So where's that coming from? He essentially says I got my theories from researching fringe ideas from the net and conspiracy theory books.

      The whole things full of hot air, unlike the Earth.
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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        Its all to do with String theory. A giant piece of mile wide string has been spotted coming out of the north pole extending a thousand miles into space, thus proving the Earth is a giant balloon. Any alien attack would just involve inserting a giant pin through the Earth's crust which would pop the planet.

        Seriously, the iron core that creates the magnetic field seems to have vanished in this guys theory. So where's that coming from? He essentially says I got my theories from researching fringe ideas from the net and conspiracy theory books.

        The whole things full of hot air, unlike the Earth.
        I remember, in high school, reading a book about a hollow Earth. Even then, I thought "Then why are there volcanoes? And why does gravity always pull to the center of our planet?"

        And now my questions are more like "Why do we suddenly want to post pictures of ourselves without a shirt, showing our armpits?""
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        • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
          Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

          I remember, in high school, reading a book about a hollow Earth. Even then, I thought "Then why are there volcanoes? And why does gravity always pull to the center of our planet?"

          And now my questions are more like "Why do we suddenly want to post pictures of ourselves without a shirt, showing our armpits?""
          Like i said in Tim's thread, exercising the right to bare arms. If WC came to live in the US he would have the right to bears arms.
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        Its all to do with String theory. A giant piece of mile wide string has been spotted coming out of the north pole extending a thousand miles into space, thus proving the Earth is a giant balloon. Any alien attack would just involve inserting a giant pin through the Earth's crust which would pop the planet.

        Seriously, the iron core that creates the magnetic field seems to have vanished in this guys theory. So where's that coming from? He essentially says I got my theories from researching fringe ideas from the net and conspiracy theory books.

        The whole things full of hot air, unlike the Earth.
        I figured he read a lot of Jules Verne.
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        • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
          Yeah, l know hollow earth, hollow brain, but he does raise some good supportive evidence, like NASA finding a star with a lot of frozen water around it.

          And the dinosaurs not being able to support their own weight!

          And he doesn't say hollow earth, just that it is frozen water with a high pressure gas envelope.

          I would say that this is an easy one to prove, just measure the Earths circumference from space, and see if if it expands or stays the same?

          I wouldn't dismiss his theory completely, based on compelling evidence, but wouldn't accept it without conclusive evidence, (being the ISS experiment above).

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          • Profile picture of the author Formal Shorts
            Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

            Yeah, l know hollow earth, hollow brain, but he does raise some good supportive evidence, like NASA finding a star with a lot of frozen water around it.

            And the dinosaurs not being able to support their own weight!

            And he doesn't say hollow earth, just that it is frozen water with a high pressure gas envelope.

            I would say that this is an easy one to prove, just measure the Earths circumference from space, and see if if it expands or stays the same?

            I wouldn't dismiss his theory completely, based on compelling evidence, but wouldn't accept it without conclusive evidence, (being the ISS experiment above).


            Easy? No. But that's exactly what they did.


            I say not easy, because it involved, and I quote NASA here,


            Originally Posted by NASA dudes



            • Satellite laser ranging -- a global observation station network that measures, with millimeter-level precision, the time it takes for ultrashort pulses of light to travel from the ground stations to satellites specially equipped with retroreflectors and back again.
            • Very-long baseline interferometry -- a radio astronomy technology that combines observations of an object made simultaneously by many telescopes to simulate a telescope as big as the maximum distance between the telescopes.
            • Global Positioning System -- the U.S.-built space-based global navigation system that provides users around the world with precise location and time information.
            • Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite -- a French satellite system used to determine satellite orbits and positioning. Beacons on the ground emit radio signals that are received by satellites. The movement of the satellites causes a frequency shift of the signal that can be observed to determine ground positions and other information.

            But that wasn't enough, because some of this is potentially contaminated by the frames of reference available to them. So they went further.


            Originally Posted by A specialist team of scientists from around the world



            The team applied a new data calculation technique to estimate the rate of change in the solid Earth's average radius over time, taking into account the effects of other geophysical processes. The previously discussed geodetic techniques (satellite laser ranging, very-long baseline interferometry and GPS) were used to obtain data on Earth surface movements from a global network of carefully selected sites. These data were then combined with measurements of Earth's gravity from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) spacecraft and models of ocean bottom pressure, which help scientists interpret gravity change data over the ocean.


            The result? The scientists estimated the average change in Earth's radius to be 0.004 inches (0.1 millimeters) per year, or about the thickness of a human hair, a rate considered statistically insignificant.


            Within an acceptable reference range, they have concluded that the Earth is not expanding.

            Sorry dude.
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          • Profile picture of the author HeySal
            Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

            Yeah, l know hollow earth, hollow brain, but he does raise some good supportive evidence, like NASA finding a star with a lot of frozen water around it.

            And the dinosaurs not being able to support their own weight!

            And he doesn't say hollow earth, just that it is frozen water with a high pressure gas envelope.

            I would say that this is an easy one to prove, just measure the Earths circumference from space, and see if if it expands or stays the same?

            I wouldn't dismiss his theory completely, based on compelling evidence, but wouldn't accept it without conclusive evidence, (being the ISS experiment above).
            The mantle is made of molten rock (read: really, really hot). Ya think that any water down there's likely to be frozen when anywhere on earth that you have mantle plumes, you have warmer surface temps, snow melt, thermal water flow such as warm geysers or hot springs, and don't forget that when pressure builds, what's inside the earth comes up - and it's not frozen, it's molten.

            There's nothing frozen inside of earth - the only cold you get underground is in shallow mine shafts and caves that are affected by surface temps and lack of solar warming. Once you start hitting real depth or get near the mantle- you start hitting heat. That's not a guess. The thought of an ice interior of any solid/gas/liquid just does not make any sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

    With a name like "Peter Woodhead", it kinda makes me wonder what his porn name would be?
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