Recent content by orpiment99

Damn, I forgot about about the goddidit part of my scientific reasoning... :oops:

Yes and the water in lava ends up being bonded into crystals. How exactly then would one go about liberating the water from the crystal lattice (with the technology they had available)?

There are several problems here, frankly. I'm just going to address this: it is difficult enough to try and distill several years of education into a simplified answer. When you are asking questions that you could reasonably have found the answers yourself, it makes things frustrating and more...

So, you don't see the religious as being damaging to society? I would have to disagree with that. If the religious could prevent their beliefs from affecting the rest of us, I wouldn't have a problem with them. But they do a great amount of harm to society in general. One only needs to look...

Wait, wasn't The Core a comedy? Womble, you must admit that geology majors spend an unfortunate amount of time coloring between the lines. :D First off, the easiest way to visualize the mantle is to think of it like a sponge. Soft, malleable, but solid material that has pockets of liquid...

Agreed. When I searched for similar articles everything came back from the 50's. I think it was a short lived idea. As I stated before, I haven't read it all yet, but they were discussing the usefulness of certain K bearing minerals. There was also some discussion on weathering into...

Actually, some of those who disbelieve the single bullet theory do so on the basis of the lack of apparent damage to the bullet. I had trouble with that part myself, until the same type of bullet was fired through some ballistic dummies under similar circumstances and ended up with...

I have a pdf file of it. If you'd like it, p.m. me. As to the article itself, it is from 1958. I haven't had time to finish reading it yet, but I have started. To my knowledge, K-Argon has never been extensively used in dating sed rocks. Presumably, it is too expensive when biostratigraphy...

Though I thought about voting for the creation myth, the flood just has too many inconsistencies or improbabilities for me to vote against it. Of all the bible stories it was the one that bothered me the most, from a logical stand point, when I was a child.

Here is a space weather bulletin from several years ago during an intensely active solar phase: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10896

I'm not a petrologist or geochemist and therefore am a poor person to get an explanation from. However, here is an article that does address some of the what you're asking: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/45/9/1747

As an addendum to this: I was raised around firearms. I was taught how to handle the rifles and shotgun when I was seven. The first firearm I ever used was an old bolt action 30.06. When I was 13 I was shown were the the shells/bullets were kept (I already knew where the firearms were) and...

From Wiki: 8:37:52: Boston Center control notifies NEADS (Northeast Air Defense Sector), the northeast sector of NORAD, of the hijacking of Flight 11, the first notification received by the military at any level that American 11 had been hijacked. The controller requests military help to...

Consent can be subjective as well. Parents have the right to consent for their children, some children (adult) have the right to consent for their parents, and consent can be given for something that one has an incomplete understanding of or that has been misrepresented. The basis of your...

Not to be rude, but that statement makes me wonder what actual research you did on what happened, and how much searching for people who had the same doubts as you. Honestly, having questions is understandable, but you go to experts to get the answers.