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Massive ocean discovered near Earth core

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I was just looking around for something to read and came across this:

 

 

A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface. The finding could help explain where Earth's seas came from.

 

The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite that lies 700 kilometres underground in the mantle, the layer of hot rock between Earth's surface and its core.

The huge size of the reservoir throws new light on the origin of Earth's water. Some geologists think water arrived in comets as they struck the planet, but the new discovery supports an alternative idea that the oceans gradually oozed out of the interior of the early Earth.

 

Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25723-massive-ocean-discovered-towards-earths-core.html#.U5rLJ_mwIlQ

 

I love living in this time when scientific discoveries are made at a pace that any one single person can keep up with.

 

But if that isn't enough to amaze you, two years ago they spotted a rogue planet:

 

 

 

While the Kepler spacecraft’s mission to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars continues to produce results, astronomers have found what is likely to be a planet that is not gravitationally bound to any star. The rogue planet, called CFBDSIR2149, is around 100 light years from our solar system, making it the closest free-floating planetary mass yet discovered. Its relative proximity, coupled with the lack of a bright star in its vicinity, has allowed researchers to study its atmosphere in great detail, which should help provide a better understanding of exoplanets that do orbit stars.

 

Source: http://www.gizmag.com/rogue-planet-cfbdsir2149/25028/

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So you're saying Poseidon doesn't live there?

Prove it, big shot!

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If he can live in a microscopic bead of water that exists between the microscopic grains of a mineral, I think the Greeks greatly overstated his significance is all I'm saying.

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It's definitely encouraging to know that we have enormous reserves of water, though. Because the surface of Earth really doesn't have that much. Sure it covers 70% of the Earth, but it's actually spread pretty thin given its relative depth. If you took all the water in the world and formed it into a ball, the ball would be less than 800 miles across.

 

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The government's been hiding this information for the public for years, but if any of you sheeple looked at the gold bar in these here ancient Incan doubloons, you'd see that it's actually soggy ringwoodite being held by a lizard person upon closer examination

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