Slashdot Mirror


Mercury May Have Molten Hot Magma at its Core

mattatwork writes "According to ScienceDaily, NASA has come to the conclusion that the planet Mercury may have a molten core after all, based on high-precision planetary radar readings. You may (or may not) remember the Mariner 10 probe making 3 passes by Mercury between March 29th, 1974, September 21st 1974 and March 16, 1975."

9 of 120 comments (clear)

  1. As do I. As do I. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As do I. As do I.

    Wjy?

  2. Yeah but... by RancidMilk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...does is have sharks with friggin' lazer beams attached to their head.

  3. Re:Tautology by catbutt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One, I think you are using "tautology" wrong. And two, by that definition it isn't magma anyway, since it's not beneath the surface of the earth. So there.

  4. Further research is still happening.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to see if they can also find Ragnaros...

    WOW guilds all over the world are building rockets to get there.

  5. Why don't they ask Al Gore? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So Mercury "may" have a molten core after all? It's examples like this that show why so many people with any common sense are skeptical about the cries of the global warming alarmists.

    Our greatest scientific minds cannot even olve a simple astrophysics problem, yet the "global-warming" crowd expect us to stake the economic livelihood of our children, and our children's children, and perhaps even that of our children's children's children, on a handful of speculative calculations about the climate.

    All those panicky liberals can go eat their granola as far as I'm concerned.

  6. Re:sniff the stinky spot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some turds are green. Just sayin'.

  7. Makes me want to cue the Anti-Nowhere League by Necrotica · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...as covered (fairly well) by Metallica...

    Well, I've been to Hastings and I've been to Brighton
    I've been to Eastbourne too
    So what, so what
    And I've been here, I've been there
    I've been every fucking where
    So what, so what
    So what, so what, you boring little cunt

  8. Molten core discovered! Well then. by Skreech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad it's all the way on Mercury, but after you do the attunement quest you'll be able to make it directly from Blackrock Mountain. That won't be too bad.

  9. Re:sniff the stinky spot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hence, "it's NOT that they're both brown"