Meath_Villan Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 James Wade has done alright for himself now though Who dat on da left? Their a lovely couple! I have never seen him play but is he known for his double-top finish? Holy shit ...hes done well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 James Wade has done alright for himself now though she looks delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 What's the strangest thing that's ever happened in the history of the earth, that we don't know about and will probably never know about. There must have been some pretty unexplainable stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted May 27, 2015 Administrator Share Posted May 27, 2015 What's the strangest thing that's ever happened in the history of the earth, that we don't know about and will probably never know about. There must have been some pretty unexplainable stuff. Where all the water came from (serious). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Good question and one that's been baffling men of science for centuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 It came from Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted May 27, 2015 Administrator Share Posted May 27, 2015 It came from Mars. You've made a lot of Useless's male scientists look very foolish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Tony left the tap on his swimming pool running again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 It came from Mars. You've made a lot of Useless's male scientists look very foolish. The female scientists brought the air from Venus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Much of the water is just melted ice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Much of the water is just melted ice. And the rest is just condensed vapour. I don't see what the fuss is about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Much of the water is just melted ice. And the rest is just condensed vapour. I don't see what the fuss is about. perhaps we should have made like it was a big deal mystery, strung it out for a few years by measuring stuff and staring at data and got a billion dollar research grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 What's the strangest thing that's ever happened in the history of the earth, that we don't know about and will probably never know about. There must have been some pretty unexplainable stuff. Where all the water came from (serious). According to general relativity, wouldn't it be the singularity like everything else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted May 28, 2015 Administrator Share Posted May 28, 2015 According to general relativity, wouldn't it be the singularity like everything else? General relativity doesn't cover special cases (the clue is in the name) The only thing we can be confident on concerning the start of spacetime is that a lot of energy appeared. Inflation occurred causing matter to condense from that energy, but the baryons alone could only have formed the elements hydrogen and helium (and their anti-particles and isotopes). Oxygen needs several steps of fusion and therefore requires stellar activity. So the earliest possible water would have taken at least 200m years from the inflation event to form (the age of the earliest stars). However the question asked about Earth. It's a mystery where the water on Earth came from. The most recent accepted theory was that it was delivered by comets at some point after the impact which created the moon. Our recent comet encounter with comet 67P shows that if it was, then something is broken in our understanding of water. Or that particular comet is in some way unusual. A mystery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Well Jupiter and/or Saturn has/have moons made of water, so the stuff does float about a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted May 28, 2015 Administrator Share Posted May 28, 2015 True. The amount of water in those is large enough that we can probably observe its composition from here and I'm not aware of a theory (rather than hypothesis) that purposes a common origin for water in both places. There is enormous quantities of water ice in the solar system particularly in the Oort Cloud, but no mechanism to deliver the quantity we have on Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Aliens. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 28, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted May 28, 2015 According to general relativity, wouldn't it be the singularity like everything else? General relativity doesn't cover special cases (the clue is in the name) The only thing we can be confident on concerning the start of spacetime is that a lot of energy appeared. Inflation occurred causing matter to condense from that energy, but the baryons alone could only have formed the elements hydrogen and helium (and their anti-particles and isotopes). Oxygen needs several steps of fusion and therefore requires stellar activity. So the earliest possible water would have taken at least 200m years from the inflation event to form (the age of the earliest stars). However the question asked about Earth. It's a mystery where the water on Earth came from. The most recent accepted theory was that it was delivered by comets at some point after the impact which created the moon. Our recent comet encounter with comet 67P shows that if it was, then something is broken in our understanding of water. Or that particular comet is in some way unusual. A mystery. Well, there you go then. That proves that God did it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 According to general relativity, wouldn't it be the singularity like everything else? General relativity doesn't cover special cases (the clue is in the name) The only thing we can be confident on concerning the start of spacetime is that a lot of energy appeared. Inflation occurred causing matter to condense from that energy, but the baryons alone could only have formed the elements hydrogen and helium (and their anti-particles and isotopes). Oxygen needs several steps of fusion and therefore requires stellar activity. So the earliest possible water would have taken at least 200m years from the inflation event to form (the age of the earliest stars). However the question asked about Earth. It's a mystery where the water on Earth came from. The most recent accepted theory was that it was delivered by comets at some point after the impact which created the moon. Our recent comet encounter with comet 67P shows that if it was, then something is broken in our understanding of water. Or that particular comet is in some way unusual. A mystery. So discovering that the water on 67P is different water to earth's water totally shifted scientific understanding. And, there was me thinking it was all about a shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted May 28, 2015 Administrator Share Posted May 28, 2015 So discovering that the water on 67P is different water to earth's water totally shifted scientific understanding. And, there was me thinking it was all about a shirt. It failed to support the prevailing theory, yes. The shirt was almost irrelevant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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