Re: Conspiracy Theory- Earth's Expansion

["franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>]

The earth is expanding?  The mother of all real estate bubbles.  I  
guess I'll have more Hell Creek to look at next year.  Job security?   
The sub-prime lenders are saved!!

Seriously though, a warming earth (from the inside out) would be  
expanding in size (radius changes) however the total amount of mass  
remains the same. However, the overall gravity well would remain the  
same.  The process by which you could measure (estimate) paleo- 
diameters escapes me at the moment.  Yes, it seems to me the  
"expanders" are pretty fringe.

Now if you add a few large cosmic bolides, (a few more resultant mass  
extinctions)you will have a larger planet. At least you will have more  
elbow room.  Kind of what happened to the dinos and one of the many  
causalities behind the fact that we are here in discourse about  
planetary paleo-radius changes.  Accretion has occurred over geologic  
time (fact).  It's all a matter of scale/time and the net effect.

I wonder what H.H. Hess would have thought about this?  I'll keep an  
open mind for now.  I remember hearing about Plate Tectonics for the  
first time and thinking "HUH"?

Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming
www.wyomingdinosaurs.com

"The world is the way it is, not the way it seems or as you have been  
told it is."
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