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Originally posted by Spanish_Inquisitor
I didn't say anything out of turn, Mr. Lear. My apologies if it came across that way.
I've been watching this thread for awhile, then came across that story on Space.com yesterday.
Others here have disagreed with Mr. Baldin's theory, and I was simply pointing out that the scientific community had recently released its own "breakthrough" explanation that runs contrary to Mr. Baldin's.
I wanted to get feedback from others here as to what they make of it, since this thread pertains to planet creation.
Nothing more.
This is the most insane thread i have ever read is it just me or has sleeper only responded to people offering him praise or buying into his convoluted bull# while he completely ignored those posing intelligent question's to which if answered by sleeper he takes a offensive tone but yet offers no solid answers.
kudos to the mod's who moved this piece of fiction put together by sleeper and i am obviously new and i have no idea why people now before this lear person but he lost credibility for siding with sleeper. sorry lear i find the mod's to be fair and intelligent.
Those living on Mars would see a vanishing sun and cold temperatures would become unbearable. The only escape would be to go deep inside Mars close to the core where temperatures were acceptable to life. The only draw back is you loose pigment in your skin over time and your eyes would evolve into large light collectors because of the darkness.
Then where does the light come from?
Originally posted by johnlear
Thanks for your post cloakndagger. The distance a planet is from the sun has nothing to do with the temperature on a planet. The sun does not radiate heat (as we know it) and it is not a nuclear reactor.
Originally posted by johnlear
The sun is an electromagnetic sphere. Each planet has its own 'filter' or atmosphere which regulates the electromagnetic 'wave' to a comfortable temperature.
Originally posted by johnlear
Venus is not the scorching hot planet mainstream science would have it. It's atmosphere or 'filter' regulates the electromagnetic wave from the sun and provides a temperature similar to earth.
Originally posted by johnlear
Pluto is not a frozen iceberg due to its distance from the sun. As a matter of fact Pluto enjoys a temperature similar to Earth and Venus and Mars as its atmosphere regulates or 'filters' the electromagnetic wave from the sun to provide it with comfortable temperatures.
Originally posted by RedSpar
I'm an open minded person and I will listen to what anyone has to say, but I also have a right to challenge your ideas to see if the framework of your theory holds up under the weight of reality. Hey, Galileo, Darwin, Einstein etc took a lot of heat too before their ideas were excepted.. So I am going to give you a little.
First off if something was ejected from the sun it would follow a directional vector directly away from the surface, i.e. straight up. That means if it had enough velocity it would either leave the solar system if it had escape velocity or fall straight back down (most likely). For something to go into orbit it has to move at a right angle of the parent object (Sun) In other words it has to have angular momentum and "fall around" the Sun. This is BASIC well proven physics that is proved everyday with satellites and probes that have been launched in orbit around the Earth and other planets. The Space Shuttle doesn't go straight up and suddenly is magically in orbit, it slowly angles 90 degrees away from the surface to gain angular momentum.
Unless there is some magic way that the Sun could spit something out and have it do a 90 deg turn this theory would never work.
Also regarding planets that are born "small" and grow as they are pushed out by solar wind - This also looks to be disproven by observational data. We have already discovered many Jupiter sized and larger extra-solar planets orbiting other stars in very close orbits (Mercury sized orbits or smaller) Read extrasolar planets wikipedia "Many exoplanets orbit much closer around their parent star than any planet in our own Solar System orbits around the Sun." Most of these planets so far have been gas giants. en.wikipedia.org...
The biggest contention I have with your theory is fossil records. Most scientist will agree that life has been on this Earth for at least 2-3 billion years, most likely more. This being the case I would venture that the Earth would be as close as Mercury a few billion years ago according to your theory. There is no possible way that Earth could have supported life being so close to the Sun both temperature and radiation (ozone and atmosphere would be blown away by solar wind) would make life impossible (at least forms of life that we had back then) Also, many core sample going back millions of years show Earth temperatures have not variated by much +- 30 F.
If the Earth were in a close orbit the years would have been much shorter too. Core samples dispute this as well. Earth seasons can easily be detected thru cores and tree fossils - they have not changed drastically enough to lead support for your theory.
We have also seen observational data showing accretion disks or planetary gas disks forming around stars, also going against your theory. en.wikipedia.org...
Astronomers have discovered large discs of material, which may themselves be protoplanetary discs, around the stars Vega, Alphecca and Fomalhaut, all of which are very close to the Sun.
Originally posted by muse801
Hey Sleeper,
Your casual comment about skunkwork in "I'm coming..." lead me here and it is orgasmic--LOL
Just finished this thread and I totally agree.....
The gaseous planets and the blackhole idea-- vacuum thing--one and the same?...please elaborate....
John Lear's electric ideas.(hey John) I have read and listened to interviews on this and get a very strong yes!
Please comment on his past post.
Originally posted by muse801
Hey Sleeper,
Your blog planet is far away from our sun, is it dematerializing?
Evolving into a different dimentional thing?
Originally posted by jra
It's a good thing this isn't a science class, you'd get a big fat F.
The mass of an Earth orbiting satellite is insignificant to the mass of Earth itself. Yet they can fall back to Earth due to its pull of gravity, if the satellite doesn't have enough velocity to maintain its orbit. Same thing with your planet birthing idea. If it doesn't get enough velocity to achieve orbit, it will fall back into the Sun. Due to the Sun's size and the strength of its gravity, it would take a lot of energy to launch it. I believe Byrd posted the numbers.
[edit on 10-3-2007 by jra]
The ejection of a core from a planet causes the inward collapse of a planet and the
subsidence of all structures on the planet's crust. The ejected core settles very near to the
body of the Mother Planet and is known to man as a Lunar body, Moon, or natural satellite.
When a core is ejected the host planet caves in breaking and burying most surface structure,
hence the need for a spade when you go in search of prehistoric artifacts (which are in fact
our legacy from Earth, when Earth was in the position of Mars).