Re: Relevant - Plate Tectonics Might Only Occur on 0.003% of Planets. That Makes Earth Very Special Indeed.
Paul S Person <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 13:37:04 -0400, Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote: >On 7/6/2024 12:36 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote: >> On 7/4/2024 10:25 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>> On 7/4/2024 4:49 PM, a425couple wrote: >>>> On 7/4/24 12:33, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>>>> On 7/4/2024 9:54 AM, a425couple wrote: >>>>>> Big DEAL !! >>>>>> So many times greats like Heinlein and Silverberg have written >>>>>> about us going to exoplanets, and it being like Earth. >>>>>> Sorry,,,, NO! >>>>>> >>>>>> from >>>>>> https://www.universetoday.com/167659/plate-tectonics-might-only-occur-on-0-003-of-planets-that-makes-earth-very-special-indeed/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Plate tectonics: Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center >>>>>> Scientific Visualization Studio >>>>>> POSTED ONJULY 2, 2024 BY SCOTT ALAN JOHNSTON >>>>>> >>>> -----------snip------- >>>>>> >>>>>> Go to the citation for the rest ----. >>>>> >>>>> I went to the citation but couldn't find if that 0.003% is of ALL >>>>> exo-planets or just the Terrestrial/Super-Terrestrial types. >>>>> >>>> >>>> "the rest" of the citation, did not give a lot of specific information. >>>> Hopefully we will see a lot more on this research in the future. >>>> >>> I also think there's a flaw in their basic assumptions. If you have a >>> rocky planet with a liquid core/mantle, you are going to have plate >>> tectonics. >> >> Neither Mercury, Venus, nor Mars have plate tectonics. That's 3/4 >> of the rocky planets with a liquid core/mantel, that we know about. > > >Bizzare. Thunderbird (or Eternal-September) is messing up. I didn't mean >to duplicate the post, but I put up the same info yesterday, but didn't >see it the first time I opened TB today, so reposted. I don't seem to have that problem with Agent 8 and Eternal September, so perhaps Thunderbird needs investigation. -- "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"