Can Gravitational Bodies Grow?

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  1. OilIsMastery

    OilIsMastery Banned Banned

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    It's mass was so "insignificant" that it was an extinction event that sent the Earth into an ice age.

    It's mass was so "insignificant" that it turned the crust of the Earth into Jello: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/asteroid_jello_001122.html

    Let me give you some more examples of insignificant mass impacts.

    "Insinginificant mass" impact destroys planets: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923164646.htm

    "Insignificant mass" impact creates planets and systems: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071114203718.htm

    "Insignificant mass" impact decapitated Mars: http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19826624.700

    "Insignificant mass" impact changes magnetic fields forever: http://space.newscientist.com/artic...d.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14827
     
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  3. OilIsMastery

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    Spreading is not recycling. It's birth.

    No basalt can survive mythological "subduction" in the mantle just as no fossil can survive mythological "subduction" in the mantle.
     
    OilIsMastery, Sep 30, 2008
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  5. Trippy

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    Still having trouble with the context of a comparison I see?

    Still having trouble grasping the concepts of 'Big, bigger, biggest' I see.

    Sheesh.
     
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    And what do you think happens to the basalt if/when it's subducted into the mantle?
     
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  8. OilIsMastery

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    There is no subduction. It's physically impossible. Granite and basalt cannot miraculously or magically teleport into or through the mantle.
     
    OilIsMastery, Sep 30, 2008
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  9. Trippy

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    Congratulations on completely missing the point.

    And it's nothing more magical than falling.

    Jeeez.
     
    Trippy, Oct 1, 2008
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  10. Vkothii

    Vkothii Banned Banned

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    Someone with an entirely constructed belief will always have difficulty when confronted with reality, and the possibility their construction is inconsistent, illogical, or just plain wrong.

    They have to keep returning to the same irrational ideas, accuse others of lying, lie about what others actually say, and stick to their irrational, illogical ideas.
    Admitting their constructed logic is faulty, will never happen. They think the world will collapse or blow up if they aren't absolutely convinced; if they can't 'prove' that everyone else is wrong.
     
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  11. OilIsMastery

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    If there were subduction going on at continental margins wouldn't people on the beach in Oregon and California be sucked into the earth during earthquakes? So far as I know that has never happened. I'm from California; I grew up with the San Andreas fault.
     
    OilIsMastery, Oct 1, 2008
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    But you don't understand the theory of subduction at continental and oceanic plate margins; you don't understand seafloor spreading.

    And you don't really want to, do you?

    P.S. If seafloor spreading is going on at the mid-oceanic ridge, why isn't the planet splitting apart?
     
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    Another strawman/appeal to ignorance.

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    The subduction zone is off the coast, and further north.

    Therefore, you conjectures are irrelevant.
     
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    And here's an excellent explanation as to why this should be the case.

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    D H Some other guy Valued Senior Member

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    One of these two posts has to qualify as the wacko post of the week. The question is, which one?
     
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  16. James R

    James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    OIM:

    Please try to keep up.

    You claimed that the mass of a comet such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs would have a mass significant compared to the mass of the Earth. I told you that for that comet the mass was only 1 billonth of the mass of the Earth.

    If you wish to have a discussion about the destructive force of the impact, that is another matter.

    But this thread is on "Can gravitational bodies grow?"

    Try to stay on topic.
     
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  17. OilIsMastery

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    In other words, there is no subduction going on west of California. LOL. Plate Tectonics is laughable. Subduction is hilarious.
     
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    Do try to keep up.

    California is one example of this.

    it's not the only example of this (the South Island of New Zealand being another example).

    It can, and does happen.

    There are many example of transform boundaries between plates.
     
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    How do you explain that there is no subduction west of California?
     
    OilIsMastery, Oct 1, 2008
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    How far west of California?
     
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    In the Pacific as far west as Asia.
     
    OilIsMastery, Oct 1, 2008
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  22. pjdude1219

    pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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    the moon is a satellite not a planet.
     
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  23. Trippy

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    Because california represents a transform plate boundary (as has already been pointed out to you).

    The San Andreas fault exists, as a transform plate boudary, between two triple junctions.

    You do remember the part in the introductory geology where they discussed the different plate boundaries right?
     
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