Was Earth a Migratory Planet? 257
astroengine writes "Why our planet isn't a "snowball Earth" — a dilemma called the 'faint young sun paradox' — has foxed solar and planetary scientists for decades. Since the Earth's formation, a planet covered in ice should have stifled any kind of greenhouse effect, preventing our atmosphere from warming up and maintaining water in a liquid state. Now, David Minton of Purdue University has come up with a novel solution that, by his own admission, straddles science fact and fiction. Perhaps Earth evolved closer to the Sun and through some gravitational effect, it was pushed to a higher orbit as the Sun grew hotter. But watch out, if this is true, planetary chaos awaits."
Earth is migratory (Score:3, Funny)
Earth is migratory
In fact, Earth received a Blue-green card as early as 3.5 billion years ago after passing a solar naturalization test.
Funny pages (Score:4, Funny)
Conclusions... (Score:5, Funny)
Q.E.D.
Re:Conclusions... (Score:3, Funny)
It is the consensus of 99% of climatologists that the earth isn't a snowball and therefore it is a fact that the earth has slowly moved into a higher orbit at exactly the same rate that the sun has warmed so as to maintain a climate on earth appropriate for life. The more we fill the atmosphere with greenhouse gases and thus heat the earth, the further the earth will move away from the sun so as to maintain an optimum climate. These "inconvenient truths" prove that there is an intelligent designer of the universe.
Q.E.D.
Dude, if you can get a creationist to accept enough science to admit that anthropogenic global warming is real, that miracle itself is enough to prove the existence of God.
Well, yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:On the upside though (Score:5, Funny)
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/how-beer-saved-the-world/ [topdocumentaryfilms.com]
Re:On the upside though (Score:5, Funny)
Both Mantle and Marrow start with 'M'.
Think about it.
Re:On the upside though (Score:4, Funny)
"It makes such a leap that if it wasn't for beer, civilized society would of never been created, but the impossibility of knowing that is really never mentioned. "
Agreed, it's preposterous.
Everyone knows that civilized society came about when Whiskey and Gin was invented. And yes I count a good brandy in there as well.
Re:What about the Theia impact theory? (Score:5, Funny)
It was pulled into a larger orbit by swallows. Swallows.
African or European?
Re:Conclusions... (Score:5, Funny)
Book Secondi 3:12
Lo, for the baking of the divine meal
Let it be done that the goliath meatball[1]
Be moved upon the table[2]
At such distance that the woodfire oven[3]
Provides a strong heat source to allow for the Maillard reaction
To properly crustify the goliath meatball
And then let it be moved
To a sufficient distance, where it may
Yet leave the inside full of tenderness
Like the twin meatballs upon the bosom of a mother
His Noodly Appendage shall make such adjustments
Necessary to make it so.
Ramen
[1] the goliath meatball being our planet.
[2] the table, sometimes mistranslated as "the firmament", is of course, the fabric of spacetime
[3] there is some disagreement among scholars about this translation, but we know from context that this is the sun
Clearly, from analysis of scripture, we can determine that the Master of the Heavenly Forkful moves or planet into a lower or higher orbit to ensure that it cooks properly.
Re:Fairly stupid response (Score:4, Funny)
I thought the prevailing opinion was that basic was bad, (all those gotos) so removing some of the basic (and replacing it with something more structured) , would be good
Re:On the upside though (Score:5, Funny)
How many billions of years are you planning to live?
Ideally as many as I can.
I of course plan to get fashionably mad into my second billion, but the recover after a bit of time in some choice facility. By that time though, I should have enough money to pay for absolutely anything, I deposited six dollars into a compound interest savings plan a week ago Tuesday.
Re:Fairly stupid response (Score:5, Funny)
Its all a matter of procedure really.
Afterall, there are so many objects in the C.
Re:On the upside though (Score:4, Funny)
Let's see - the Mantle is a hard shell around a liquid core. Marrow is a rich edible substance scraped from inside bones that has a solid or semi-solid consistency but softens when heated (cooked)...
I just had a horrifying thought - excuse me, I need to check the ingredients list on my bag of "M&M's" again...