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I believe, if you watched the video I posted and studied the expanding earth theory, it becomes "evident" to the common person that their is a reason why Africa and the Americas seem to fit together. The ages of the sea floors are "Evidence" gathered by the scientific community as noted. This is hard core "Evidence" of a expanding earth.
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by All Seeing Eye
How can a theory (specially a theory for which there isn't any real evidence, as far as I know) be considered evidence, even if circumstantial, of anything?
The joke is who ever gave you your very limited vision, and closed mind. The failure is your inability to consider new things past a "Flat" earth.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by All Seeing Eye
Fail because its NOT expanding! You're using one joke theory to support another!
I have watched that video before, and I don't see how something like an expanding planet is a better explanation than continental drift?
Originally posted by All Seeing Eye
I believe, if you watched the video I posted and studied the expanding earth theory, it becomes "evident" to the common person that their is a reason why Africa and the Americas seem to fit together.
That could be seen (and has been seen) as evidence of continental drift.
The ages of the sea floors are "Evidence" gathered by the scientific community as noted.
Not really, because in some places the older sea floor is being destroyed,
This is hard core "Evidence" of a expanding earth.
It did not, the only thing that became evident is the need some people have to show that science is wrong just because they think they have a better idea.
Watch the video and it will become self evident.
It did not, the only thing that became evident is the need some people have to show that science is wrong just because they think they have a better idea
One of the longest running and most controversial theories in geology is the Expanding Earth theory. From the earliest school geology classes to the most advanced university geology lectures, almost everyone is taught that the Earth is not expanding. So when people are first presented with evidence for an Expanding Earth virtually everyone is astonished.
Some people are so shocked by the evidence for an Expanding Earth they deny there is any evidence and call it a pseudo-science, while others try to convince their peers that it has been scientifically investigated and debunked by plate tectonics so this evidence need not even be considered. This argument about the significance of the geological evidence for an Expanding Earth can become very animated at times.
But a small number of geologists are so convinced by the geological evidence for an Expanding Earth that they have investigated the facts in detail. Many of the supporters for an Expanding Earth are professors and doctors of geology who continue to present the supporting evidence today by publishing various scientific papers and books advocating the theory.
The most widely known geological evidence for Earth expansion is simple. The continents are ancient and some regions have existed for more than 3,800 million years. But in geological time scales the ocean floor is relatively young and ranges from only about 200 million years old at the continents to areas at the mid-ocean ridges that are still forming today. When the dinosaurs first evolved none of today's ocean floor existed.
This thesis allowed me to calculate that dinosaurs' gravity would need to be about half the present force of gravity to explain the dinosaurs’ large size.
But celestial mechanics means that the Earth would need to be much smaller with reduced mass to have such a large reduced gravity.
At first it seemed unlikely that the ancient Earth could have been so small during the dinosaurs time, but I soon found that a number of geologists had already proposed that the ancient Earth was smaller and then expanded. Their reasoning had nothing to do with dinosaurs and was based purely on geological evidence. This is commonly known as the Expanding Earth theory and a number of geologists are still promoting this theory today.
Based on their geological evidence they proposed that the ancient Earth was about the same size predicted by the Reduced Gravity Earth. Both theories predict the same astonishing conclusion using completely different reasoning and evidence.
Why do you say that? I only said that some people look like they have a need to prove that science (or whatever, as long as it's connected with the status quo) is wrong, regardless of having a better supported theory or not?
Originally posted by All Seeing Eye
Well, ArMaP, I suppose you are correct. We all still live on a flat earth, ride horses, eat our meat raw, wear animal skins for cloths because the guy next door refused to look at something new and different.
Yes, but only some ideas survived until the present. Some did not because they were not good enough, some because they were not cheap enough to replace the existing ones, some (probably) because the established companies didn't liked the ideas and did everything in their power to slow the competition.
The automobile industry came a long way, because someone thought they had a better idea than the engineers (scientists) of that day.
No head in the sand, but no head in the clouds either.
You may keep your proverbial head in the sand if you like, but the next generation will look back and call you a fool, and reap your reward.
I have a carcharodon megalodon tooth that I found some 70 metres above sea level and 10km from the ocean. To me, that means that at the time the ocean was covering the place where I live, so, not being ocean floor but part of the European continent, that part is older than the ocean floor but it was ocean some millions of years ago (apparently some 25 to 1.5, the time where the megalodons are supposed to have lived). Sea floor age is not enough to show that an expanding Earth is the right explanation.
When the dinosaurs first evolved none of today's ocean floor existed.
How does that explain that both the 30 (or more) metres long Diplodocus and the 25 centimeters Epidexipteryx lived at the same time, with the smaller one being a little old that the bigger? I don't see how a global environmental influence like gravity could allow very large and very small animals at the same time.
This thesis allowed me to calculate that dinosaurs' gravity would need to be about half the present force of gravity to explain the dinosaurs’ large size.
A team of Russian scientists just announced that they are within 100 meters of drilling into Lake Vostok, Antarctica. Lake Vostok is about the same size as Lake Ontario, but is shut off from the rest of the world by a layer of ice more than 3 kilometers thick. The waters of the lake are about 50 times as oxygenated as typical lake or ocean water.
Forests produce oxygen during the day but they consume it during the night, although not as much as they produce during the day, so I think that would have been the result of other type of oxygen production, either by algae or by some other means.
Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
However if I remember correct, the giants of the cretaceous period are linked directly to an increased volume of available oxygen at the time. A result of a planet covert with plants and forests ?
The ability of ancestral mitochondria to make hydrogen, rather than use oxygen, was the basis of the primordial pact that gave rise to the eukaryotes, Martin and Müller argued. The bacteria produced hydrogen as waste, and the host cell used it to convert carbon dioxide into methane, gleaning a little energy from the process - just as many archaea, called methanogens, still do. The symbiosis began in an environment with little or no oxygen and only later, after the relationship was well established, did the host cell start exploiting the ability of the ancestral mitochondria to use oxygen.
This idea, known as the "hydrogen hypothesis", was proposed by Martin and Müller in 1998 (Nature, vol 392, p 37), but it has never gained widespread acceptance. It was not just up against the gut feeling of most researchers that the rise of the eukaryotes was related in some way to oxygen; on the face of it, what little evidence there was did not support it either
Oxygen, by itself is non flammable, non explosive. Oxygen does not burn. But in saying that any flammable that comes into contact with oxygen becomes more flammable as the oxygen content increases. But even at that it requires a ignition for combustion to occur.
Oxygen is a potent toxin in large amounts. highly explosive and flammable as well if I remember correct
Originally posted by andy435
I think that the hollow earth theory does not comply with the laws of physics. If you try to explain some other theories, may be they can be true. But this one just does not make sense. However, it is really funny that some people just try to make it sound real. Here's a funny article that I came across on the topic.
Holes In The Poles