Stuart McLachlan
stuart.mclachlan at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 15:47:29 CDT 2014
It's water, but not as we know it, Jim :) It's worth noting that the temperature at that depth is around 1500°C -- Stuart On 29 Mar 2014 at 0:25, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Everyone knows that Jules Verne, though he predicted many of today's > realities, was way off, in his fanciful book called "A Journey to the > Center of the Earth". In this book he described huge oceans of water > that spanned the globe. He was of course completely wrong but... > > New discoveries suggest that there may be more "hydroxide" water, at a > depth of 400 to 700 km beneath the surface. That is quite a depth > considering that the deepest mine is about 4 kilometers and the > deepest well ever drilled is somewhere around 12 kilometers. But this > region may have more water available than all the known water, on the > surface. > > The implications of this discovery could open far reach > possibilities... > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140312150229.htm > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >