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Pockets of Water May Lay Deep Below Earth's Surface (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Small pockets of water exist deep beneath Earth's surface, according to an analysis of diamonds belched from hundreds of kilometers within our planet. The work, which also identifies a weird form of crystallized water known as ice VII, suggests that material may circulate more freely at some depths within Earth than previously thought. Geophysical models of that flow, which ultimately influences the frequency of earthquakes driven by the scraping of tectonic plates at Earth's surface, may need to be substantially tweaked, scientists say. Such models also help scientists estimate the long-term rates of heat flow through Earth's surface and into space.
this sure sounds plausible and not like some made up bullshit for scientists to get funding
from that ice-nine.
I wonder how long it'll take for this to make the rounds on creationist websites, and similar silliness.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
Can we use that data to search for water on mars more accurately ?
Just as long as it isn't Ice Nine, I guess we're all safe!
We shouldn't mess with what's in the ground too or redistribute heat.
We still just have one earth and the less we destroy the better.
It's a leftover Fremen cistern from the days when sandworms ruled!
I knew flat earth was a scam. Thanks NASA
No good comes of that.
About time!
By the way, the earth isn't flat and climate change is caused primarily by humans since more than a century now.
That said, while this might be fun for those writing SF and Fantasy, in thinking about what life might "exist" in underground domains, it's still highly unlikely that it will replace us. That's AI killer robots job.
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Elon decides that the Boring Company can sell bottled water, too.
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Sounds like something to help with our drinking water shortages of late....
Let's get a drillin!
What do those pockets of water lay? Or do you mean lie? Did you mean they lie deep below the earth's surface? Surely, that makes more sense, because pockets of water never really lay anything. Or do you just not know the difference?
But that's only two ices away from Ice-Nine!!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one pulling out my hair.
I don't think a water softener would remove solid rock from your water.
I am waiting for Ice IX
I've read multiple articles stating that ringwoodite contains enough water in the mantle as on the surface of the planet - oceans and all!!
Which BTW, does kinda make sense when you think about it. Earth was formed in orbit around the Sun (as all planets) via an accretion disk. So all that dust and debris would be not in any particular order. Over time, gravitation forces and tectonic activity would pull all the heavier elements toward the core, and lighter gasses would rise to the surface (see our atmosphere). Water is no different. If locked up in rock, it would belch out as water vapor through volcanism and other tectonic forces.
Just a wild guess here, but it's not inconceivable to think that in another billions years or so, our planet will turn into a Water World. And sorry, no, there will not be a Kevin Costner around.
Life is not for the lazy.
With water available, and enough technology to reach it, maybe he can build a base on that planet.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
A large part of the great Noah's flood came from below.
Why? duckintheface is completely correct.
Why don't you shut up you fat retard
Yeah Thomas Gold would not have been surprised. But that's because physicists have first principles and draw conclusions from them and think about what is possible. "Geo"-types (and esp. Bio-types) aren't scientists in the sense that physicists are rather they are collectors continually surprised by the unexpectedness the world presents them with.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
I knew it! Deep Water is lurking there, trying to prevent our Dear Leader, the Big Giant Orange Head, from achieving his Right Thinking goals and objectives!