Huge Reservoir Discovered Beneath Asia

anthemaniac writes "Seismic observations reveal a huge reservoir of water in Earth's mantle beneath Asia. It's actually rock saturated with water, but it's an ocean's worth of water ... as much as is in the whole Arctic Ocean. How did it get there? A slab of water-laden crust sank, and the water evaporated out when it was heated, and then it was trapped, the thinking goes. The discovery fits neatly with the region's heavy seismic activity and fits neatly with the idea that the planet's moving crustal plates are lubricated with water."

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So THAT's where all the water went

[Anonymous Coward]

... after Noah's Flood! This proves the existence of God! Suck it, James Cameron!!!12!!

Re:So THAT's where all the water went

[TheDreadSlashdotterD]

Unfortunately, in order to really prove that there was a global flood, you would need to produce the Mexicans that built the Arc. Until then, it's just a story in a book.

As to proving the existence of a god, in whatever form you want, that's an exercise best left to the reader.

Re:So THAT's where all the water went

[MillionthMonkey]

These are certainly interesting times. The Arabs had "our" oil, and now it turns out the Chinese have "our" water in their mantle. Expect to see a lot of cheap knock-off water hitting the market soon.

in order to really prove that there was a global flood, you would need to produce the Mexicans that built the Arc

I thought the Ark maintenance guys had decided by Genesis 8:20 that the whole thing was made in China, and not a Noah original with Mexican hired laborers. It carried two of every shipping container, one for the male and one for the female of each species, plus piles of inexpensive cheap shirts, sweaters, pants, ties, coffee mugs, pillows, socks, cordless drills, cheap carbon-zinc batteries, and phones, all wrapped in those annoying plastic bags. You know how to spot an Ark that's a cheap Chinese knockoff? When the Ark is empty it displaces more water than a genuine Noah's Ark. Also, the termites and the woodpeckers can tell you. God made them so they just know.

As to proving the existence of a god, in whatever form you want, that's an exercise best left to the reader.

If there were no God, someone would surely manufacture a convincing knock-off of Him.

Re:So THAT's where all the water went

[cluckshot]

Back On topic...

The issue of a massive quantity of water in the mantle of the earth throws a big monkey wrench into the current theories of how the earth is formed and structured. It also throws a bunch of wrenches into the whole cosmological theory basis for how the earth formed etc. If the earth formed starting little and then grew hot from impacts and so forth then the water would be boiled out into space and the oceans would not exist. Sorry but the whole theory basis for the formation and structure of the earth as we now supposedly know it is goofed up by this.

Now on to what really is going on. The earth exists and grows. It grows by a process where by electrical charges are converted into matter. The sun is doing this as well as every other body in the universe. This allows them to be made "in situ". I know it will torque over the physics police and if you don't like what I have to say get over it. The universe is not formed by the current popular theories. They are busted. The electrical formation allows the construction of large bodies of water on the planet inside of it. It allows the formation of matter of almost any type. It allows the addition of oceans to the earth after the rocky body formed without having to add comet ice which as we now know from the space probes that went to comets, doesn't exist. It allows the construction of a planet with unique atomic makeup without any of the current age of the Universe or big bang or whatever. It allows the construction of a planet in the form we now see. It doesn't deny impacts but they become insignificant to the overall state of the planet. The planet can grow and split apart as NOAA sea bed maps show for sure has happened.

One thing which the guys writing the explanations suffer from is that they cannot get their heads out of the old theories. You cannot sink a continent containing that much water (Specific Gravity 2.5 or so) into basalt with specific gravity near 5.0. It doesn't work. The sinking continent idea doesn't work. The water is being made down there.

If you want the whole process it is too long for this forum but in synopsis the universe is plasma driven and the energy of this drives the reactions I am talking about. These are lab reproduced reactions. They work. As such there is good evidence that this is the process set. Of course it will just about trash all of the current theories of the universe that are so near and dear to the heart of so many.

By the way the appearance of this matches well to the orbital data over the earth in these places. The mountains of this region exist because the area has this deviation.

be like the Earth

[Anonymous Coward]

the planet's moving crustal plates are lubricated with water.

Be like the Earth: use water-based lubricants, kids.

Re:be like the Earth

[oldhack]

Wrong website, bud. They/we have no need for lubricant.

Re:be like the Earth

[Anonymous Coward]

Be like the Earth: use water-based lubricants, kids. I'd rather have the earth use kids as lubricants.

Now git off mah lawn!

dammit!

[Anonymous Coward]

There goes my astroglide tectonics theory! Back to the drawing board...

I get the same thing once in a while....

[blankoboy]

but a tall glass of Prune juice always gets that trapped "slab of water-laden crust" out just fine.

Water based lubricants versus oil based lubricants

[andy314159pi]

planet's moving crustal plates are lubricated with water.

The planet's crusts used to lubricate with oil based lubricants until it got the memo to switch to water based lubricants.

Re:Usefulness?

[arthurpaliden]

So are you saying that tapping a little water from this "ocean" will cause more earth quakes. There are always earthquakes, big and small. Next you will probably say that by producing greenhouse gases we are effecting climate change........

It's not fair!

[Anonymous Coward]

First they got all the tea in China and now they got all the water too?
It's not fair!

Illuminati

[Llarian]

Its the sea of Valusia, of course...

Sorry

[encoderer]

Sorry.. That's a string bet. This isn't the wild west. You must make your wager in one continuous play.

Great

[Mark_MF-WN]

Hey, it gets my vote. Any situation where massive numbers of human deaths can be associated with the word "hilariously" twice in the same sentence, is a situation that I want to be a part of.

Re:So THAT's where the flood water CAME FROM

[Phroggy]

"Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."
Proverbs 31:6-7 (NIV)

I defy anyone to find a better passage to take out of context.

Re:So THAT's where the flood water CAME FROM

[indifferent children]

He would just provide food as needed, or make all the sea animals survive because He wanted too?

Of course, he could have also just saved all of the animals that he wanted saved. But it is soooo much more fun to screw with people, and convince them to build a big unnecessary boat, and sleep in cramped quarters with hundreds of thousands of animals (1,100 species of bats alone don't ya know?) for a year.

I had a boss once who gave people non-productive, frustrating tasks just to prove to everyone that he was in charge. If he had been immortal we might have called him Lord, but things being as they were, we just called him a dick.

Am I crazy?

[spun]

I think global warming is a real problem. I think it's probably caused by humans.

The problem? I also think Al Gore is a pompous ass and his movie was the most boring piece of shit I've ever seen. By the end, I was rooting for global warming, on the theory that it might kill Al Gore. So, does that mean I'm crazy?