Can the Earth's Core ever stop rotating?
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08-10-2005 | 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by cia-agent
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But, to ask this question tell me that someone just rented or purchased "The Core"...
But, to ask this question tell me that someone just rented or purchased "The Core"...
I saw it on HBO Sunday.
You missed it. I got sick and tired of that *****ty racial thread and tried to turn everyones attention to something else......kinda worked. Soon after Bill opened this thread, RP closed that racial thread.
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08-10-2005 | 07:22 PM
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The diameter of the earth is about 12,700 kilometers (7,800 miles). If you drilled the tunnel straight through the center and could create a vacuum inside, anything you dropped into the tunnel would reach the other side of the planet in just 42 minutes! See the links for details.
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08-10-2005 | 07:53 PM
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What if the earth technically doesnt have a physical core?
What if the earths core is actually anti-matter and the magnetic field is the only thing containing it?
Or
What if the earths core is a black hole being contained by billions of years of particles forming like ice on a jets wing. That would provide us with our gravity.
If so and if we do drill into it, then it would once again be unleashed and swallow us whole!
What if it is an "unkown to us" substance?
I think before we can deciede what would happen if the earths core quit rotating, we must first determine if it is indeed rotating at all first. Might even want to know what material it conmsist of too.
Shot in the dark theories are fun but with out atleast some fundamental parts to the equation then we can't even come close to making an educated guess.
I'd rather ask for a fundemental comprehensive plan to get to the core and take samples.
How can we get to it?
What if the earths core is actually anti-matter and the magnetic field is the only thing containing it?
Or
What if the earths core is a black hole being contained by billions of years of particles forming like ice on a jets wing. That would provide us with our gravity.
If so and if we do drill into it, then it would once again be unleashed and swallow us whole!
What if it is an "unkown to us" substance?
I think before we can deciede what would happen if the earths core quit rotating, we must first determine if it is indeed rotating at all first. Might even want to know what material it conmsist of too.
Shot in the dark theories are fun but with out atleast some fundamental parts to the equation then we can't even come close to making an educated guess.
I'd rather ask for a fundemental comprehensive plan to get to the core and take samples.
How can we get to it?
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08-10-2005 | 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by PSS-Mag
I'd rather ask for a fundemental comprehensive plan to get to the core and take samples.
How can we get to it?
How can we get to it?
The deepest hole drilled so far is in Russia and is about 7.5 miles deep.
That is about halfway through the crust and so the same distance to the Mantle.
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08-10-2005 | 10:02 PM
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08-10-2005 | 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by EnglishAdam
The technology does not exist yet to drill that deep.
The deepest hole drilled so far is in Russia and is about 7.5 miles deep.
That is about halfway through the crust and so the same distance to the Mantle.
The deepest hole drilled so far is in Russia and is about 7.5 miles deep.
That is about halfway through the crust and so the same distance to the Mantle.
Yeah... that one is on the Kola Penninsula I believe.
It's an impressive feat for a rig to spin something that deep...
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08-10-2005 | 10:12 PM
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08-10-2005 | 10:31 PM
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08-10-2005 | 10:50 PM
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Ok kids... Heat causes churning in the liquid outer core, which Earth's rotation transforms into a liquid whirlpool that swirls around the planet's axis. Now Earth's metallic core consists of a solid iron sphere, about three-quarters of the size of the moon, sitting within an outer shell of roiling liquid iron. So the real question is will earth's core COOL. If it cools, it WILL stop turning. Otherwise the answer is no, it ain't gonna stop. Go to bed now, D has spoken.
