Hey Nik

[HailBlazers]

does camas (sp?) still smell like shit? i remember going there for some reason and holy fuck

Paper mill reeks yes. Going there to buy meth?

 

[Denny Crane]

I guess I'm Johnny come lately to the show ... So Denny is this a serious question or am I missing a joke here? Because my answer probably isn't very impressive and really I don't know all that much about astrophysics.

Off hand I'd guess that you "burn" hydrogen in an oxygen rich environment and you'll get H2O, so where did all of the oxygen and hydrogen come from and why is the Earth covered with the byproduct of a these two elements' reaction? FuckifIknow



Millions of oxygen or H2O rich foreign bodies like comets and asteroids impacting the planet billions of years ago? Oxygen-rich space dust coalescing/reacting with clouds of hydrogen? More likely the Flying Spaghetti Monster wiggled his noodly appendage and drained out the holy colander over the face of the Earth.

It was a serious question.

Seeing how hydrogen makes up the vast majority of matter in the universe, the byproduct theory is a good one.

I raised the question partly because of Maris' links.

The obvious question raised by the comet theory is why those could have water but the earth couldn't. They acreted from the same stuff.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Paper mill reeks yes. Going there to buy meth?

hmmm....no i dont think so, but maybe

 

[barfo]

If you're talking about the water we drink, I have to agree. If that's a personal remark, it's funny, but uncalled for.

Was definitely not meant to be personal, just a general slap at the city of Vancouver for giggles. I've never tasted Vancouver water, nor do I know where it comes from (presumably not really portland's sewage).

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Was definitely not meant to be personal, just a general slap at the city of Vancouver for giggles. I've never tasted Vancouver water, nor do I know where it comes from (presumably not really portland's sewage).

barfo

You ever have Lucky Lager? That's the kind of beer you'd get with that goooooood Vancouver water.

 

[Nikolokolus]

It was a serious question.

Seeing how hydrogen makes up the vast majority of matter in the universe, the byproduct theory is a good one.

I raised the question partly because of Maris' links.

The obvious question raised by the comet theory is why those could have water but the earth couldn't. They acreted from the same stuff.

Seems reasonable enough to me. I should give my brother at the Corps of Engineers a call or send him an e-mail -- he's a geologist -- maybe he knows something I don't.

 

[jlprk]

For longer threads I just read the last 3-4 posts. So Vancouver water comes from Portland sewage? Is that where they make Lucky Lager? Is Prophet offended because his city Portland donates its sewage to far better outfits than Vancouver? Well I'll move on to the next thread.

 

[Denny Crane]

Seems reasonable enough to me. I should give my brother at the Corps of Engineers a call or send him an e-mail -- he's a geologist -- maybe he knows something I don't.

Kewl.

The science shows use fancy computer graphics as if they're real. They tend to show early earth as a molten ball of rock. That may be a reasonable thing, but why not a molten ball of rock surrounded by an atmosphere of steam? When the earth cooled, the steam would condense and fall as rain, giving us oceans' worth of water.

The geologic evidence is that there was lots of water so early on that comets hitting the planet over a few million years doesn't seem like enough.

Also, the first life forms were so early in our history that water must have been there...

 

[jlprk]

This link isn't about water, but it shows that there are a lot of big asteroids close to Earth's orbit, intersecting our orbit now and then.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1109/29wise/