I JUST LOOKED AT VIDEO ON YOUTUBE EXPLAINING HOW THE EARTH BECAME A SPHERE. THE SCIENTIST SAID THAT THE GREATER THE MASS OF AN OBJECT THE GREATER ITS GRAVITIONAL PULL. THE EARTH STARTED OF AS SHAPELESS ROCK IN SPACE AND FORMED AS SMALLER ROCKS SMASHED INTO IT DUE TO ITS GRAVITATIONAL PULL. AS THE EARTH ROCK ROTATED, REVOLVING AROUND THE SUN, IT MOLDED ITSELF INTO A SPHERE, AS DID ALL THE OTHER SPHERICAL PLANETS AND MOONS. WELL, IVE ALSO THOUGHT THAT MOST SCIENCE IS A CROCK OF POOP, SO THIS RAISED EVEN MORE QUESTIONS LIKE: THERE ARE SHAPELESS FORMS ALL OVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY IN THE ASTEROID BELT, THAT ARE LARGER AND HAVE MORE MASS THAN EARTH OR FOR SAKE OF THERE ISNT, MERCURY. MERCURY IS ALSO A SPHERICAL SHAPED PLANET, SMALLER THAN EARTH. WHY ARENT THESE ASTEROIDS AND OTHER SPACE LITTER SPHERICAL AS WELL? OK YOU MAKE A SNOWBALL, IN ORDER FOR THE SNOWBALL TO GET LARGER AND STILL BE A BALL, YOU HAVE TO ROLL IT ON ALL SIDES CORRECT? WHEN YOU MAKE A MEATBALL, YOU HAVE TO ROLL IT IN YOUR HANDS IN ALL DIRECTIONS TO GET A PROPER BALL SHAPE. OK LETS APPLY THIS TO EARTH. EARTH IS ON A TILTED AXIS. IT ROTATES LEFT TO RIGHT CORRECT? WELL HOW DOES IT BECOME ROUND ALL OVER IF IT SHAPED ITSELF? WHAT MADE THE TOP AND BOTTOM ROUND LIKE THE SIDES? IT WILL PROBABLY BE EXPLAINED AS THE GRAVITATIONAL PULL FROM THE EARTHS CORE. THE CORE OF THE EARTH IS ACTUALLY THE ONLY SPHERICAL SHAPE IN THIS EQUATION. IT IS VERY DENSE WITH IRON AND OTHER VARIOUS DENSE METALS. THE CRUST OF THE EARTH HAS A VARIETY OF SHAPES. MOUNTAINS, PLATEAUS, HILLS, PLAINS, INDENTIONS FOR BODIES OF WATER. IRON IS DENSER THAT DIRT OR THE SEDIMENT THAT BUILDS UP OVER TIME TO FORM MOUNTAINS, HILLS, ETC. SO WHY IS IT THAT THE LAND WE STAND ON IS NOT SPHERICAL ITSELF? THE IRON CORE IS SPHERICAL, GRAVITY SHOULD HAVE FLATTENED THE MOUNTAINS BY NOW. MATTER OF FACT THE LAYER OF EARTH IN BETWEEN THE EARTHS CORE AND ITS CRUST (THE MANTLE) SHOULD HAVE MELTED THE CRUST BY NOW OR AT LEAST AIDED IN IT BECOMING SPHERICAL OVER TIME, YET THE MANTLE WHICH IS A MALTEN LIQUID, WITH LESS DENSITY THAN THE CRUST ON TOP OF IT IS CONSTANTLY MOVING AROUND THE EARTHS CORE, BUT ISNT ERODING THE BOTTOM OF EARTHS CRUST AS GRAVITY PUSHES DOWN ON THE TOP OF EARTHS CRUST, WHICH SHOULD GIVE EARTHS CRUST A DOUBLE WAMMY, FLATTENING THE SURFACE UNTIL THE ENTIRE PLANET IS A SPERICAL PLAIN. HOWEVER, EVERY LAND FORM KEEPS ITS SHAPE AND ONLY CHANGES DUE TO OUTSIDE FORCES, EROSION, NATURAL DISASTER, HUMAN IMPRINT ETC ETC. THE ACTUAL SHAPE WE SEE FROM SPACE PHOTOGRAPHS IS THE ATMOSPHERE OF EARTH. IT FORMS A SPHERE AROUND THE EARTH DUE TO GRAVITY, AND IT HAS LESS MASS THAN THE ACTUAL EARTH OF THE PLANET. THE DENSER THE ATMOSPHERE THE LOWER IT IS TO THE GROUND, WHICH IS WHY THE HIGHER YOU GO UP THE LESS YOU CAN BREATH, I WILL TAKE THAT. AS FOR THE EARTH ITSELF, I DONT THINK JUST GRAVITY AND DENSITY SOLELY MAD ITS SHAPE. I THINK THERE WAS AN OUTSIDE FORCE. I THINK GIANT IRON ROCKS MERGED AND SOMEONE ROLLED IT INTO A SPHERE, PUT IT IN PROXIMITY TO THE SUN AND THEN ALLOWED GRAVITY TO DO ITS JOB. I DONT THINK THE EARTH DID IT ON ITS OWN. THERE WAS A HAND MAKING THIS GIANT MEAT BALL. THERE IS AN OUTSIDE FORCE THAT DOESNT ALLOW THE MOLTEN MANTLE TO MELT THE CRUST, ERODING IT FROM THE BOTTOM UP, AS CRISCO MELTS FROM THE BOTTOM LEAVING LITTLE ISLANDS OF GREASE STILL AFLOAT UNTIL IT ALL TURNS TO HOT OIL TO FRY YOUR CHICKEN. PICTURE THAT IF YOU WILL. I PRESS THE GREASE WITH A FORK, DOWNWARD FORCING IT TO MELT FASTER. THE HEAT SOURCE IS THE CORE, THE FRYING PAN IS THE MANTLE, THE MELTED GREASE IS THE PLAIN OF THE CRUST OF EARTH, THE ISLANDS LEFT FLOATING ARE THE MOUNTAINS AND OTHER LAND MASSES, AND GRAVITY IS THE THE FORK. WHY ISNT THE EARTH JUST A LIQUID, SPINNING, BARRELING AROUND THE SUN ALREADY? JUST A THOUGHT...
Posted on: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:00:13 +0000
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