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Was Earth a Migratory Planet?
astroengine writes "Why our planet isn't a "snowball Earth" — a dilemma called the 'faint young sun paradox' — has foxed solar and planetary scientists for decades. Since the Earth's formation, a planet covered in ice should have stifled any kind of greenhouse effect, preventing our atmosphere from warming up and maintaining water in a liquid state. Now, David Minton of Purdue University has come up with a novel solution that, by his own admission, straddles science fact and fiction. Perhaps Earth evolved closer to the Sun and through some gravitational effect, it was pushed to a higher orbit as the Sun grew hotter. But watch out, if this is true, planetary chaos awaits."
Earth is migratory
In fact, Earth received a Blue-green card as early as 3.5 billion years ago after passing a solar naturalization test.
"And then a miracle occurs" makes a good punchline but lousy science.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
It is the consensus of 99% of climatologists that the earth isn't a snowball and therefore it is a fact that the earth has slowly moved into a higher orbit at exactly the same rate that the sun has warmed so as to maintain a climate on earth appropriate for life. The more we fill the atmosphere with greenhouse gases and thus heat the earth, the further the earth will move away from the sun so as to maintain an optimum climate. These "inconvenient truths" prove that there is an intelligent designer of the universe.
Q.E.D.
Up until it found it was having humans. Then it had to settle down.
Hey, dihydrogen monoxide is perfectly safe as long as you process it with grain, yeast, a bit of hops, and the correct amount of time... it was in fact this process that saved the world!
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/how-beer-saved-the-world/
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
It won't run out because oil is being constantly created in the earth's mantle, just like blood is continuously manufactured by marrow.
Both Mantle and Marrow start with 'M'.
Think about it.
"It makes such a leap that if it wasn't for beer, civilized society would of never been created, but the impossibility of knowing that is really never mentioned. "
Agreed, it's preposterous.
Everyone knows that civilized society came about when Whiskey and Gin was invented. And yes I count a good brandy in there as well.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
It was pulled into a larger orbit by swallows. Swallows.
African or European?
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
I thought the prevailing opinion was that basic was bad, (all those gotos) so removing some of the basic (and replacing it with something more structured) , would be good
How many billions of years are you planning to live?
Ideally as many as I can.
I of course plan to get fashionably mad into my second billion, but the recover after a bit of time in some choice facility. By that time though, I should have enough money to pay for absolutely anything, I deposited six dollars into a compound interest savings plan a week ago Tuesday.
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Its all a matter of procedure really.
Afterall, there are so many objects in the C.
Just bought a new quantum computer, but I'm uncertain how it works.
Let's see - the Mantle is a hard shell around a liquid core. Marrow is a rich edible substance scraped from inside bones that has a solid or semi-solid consistency but softens when heated (cooked)...
I just had a horrifying thought - excuse me, I need to check the ingredients list on my bag of "M&M's" again...
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