Andy Fenton again

[Fred the shred]

Not all wild life were taken  ☺️

[The Bastard]

Shame that the largest IOM Help and Events group seems basically to have been hijacked by Fenton for attention-seeking conspiracy nonsense of late, and he's an admin of it, so there's nobody to tell him to GTFO and make his own conspiracy group. Needs a new group setting up with sane admins, it's become a clown show.

[Barlow]

3 hours ago, Jarndyce said:

Yoiks!   A flat earther! 😉

Surely the earth is round due to a combination of: accretion of planetary debris and space dust; spinning due to magnetic core; and gravitational pull inward?   But you’re right, it is “round-ish”: it’s flattened at the poles so it’s not a sphere - it’s an oblate spheroid…

I would say yes, a combination of stuff, but mainly a big bit of shrapnelly type rocky stuff that would have been originally flat-ish, and then lots of forces took over to do things and make it round-ish. If we keep blowing it up and that, it will be a perfectly round sphere one day, according to the laws of gravity.

 

[The Bastard]

2 minutes ago, Barlow said:

I would say yes, a combination of stuff, but mainly a big bit of shrapnelly type rocky stuff that would have been originally flat-ish, and then lots of forces took over to do things and make it round-ish. If we keep blowing it up and that, it will be a perfectly round sphere one day, according to the laws of gravity.

 

Cue Fenton : "Gravity is just a far-fetched theory, it isn't real"

[Ringy Rose]

4 hours ago, WTF said:

yes,  but nothing 'floated' like a boat does

The Earth’s crust sits on the mantle, which is essentially viscous.

So yes, the tectonic plates do float.

 

[Ringy Rose]

4 minutes ago, The Bastard said:

Cue Fenton : "Gravity is just a far-fetched theory, it isn't real"

The Moon’s gravity causing the tides of the sea would blow Fenton’s brain, if he had one.

[Passing Time]

4 hours ago, Barlow said:

 

This of course would make the world originally erm, flat.

FFS don’t open that can of worms 

 

[Kopek]

16 minutes ago, Barlow said:

would have been originally flat-ish, and then lots of forces took over to do things and make it round-ish

Bit like a Calzone then?

3 hours ago, Jarndyce said:

it’s an oblate spheroid…

You can get a cream for those!

[Roxanne]

 

8 minutes ago, Kopek said:

Bit like a Calzone then?

You can get a cream for those!

Kopek?

Are you alright hun?

You seem to be twenty exclamation and question marks short of your usual.

I'm always there for you if you want to inbox me. 😍

 

[Gladys]

56 minutes ago, Roxanne said:

 

Kopek?

Are you alright hun?

You seem to be twenty exclamation and question marks short of your usual.

I'm always there for you if you want to inbox me. 😍

 

Obviously, the cat is out!!!!!

[Kopek]

I'm saving them up for a mid-week  splurge!

[Barlow]

The usual service will be resumed about 11pm/2nd bottle

[Kopek]

Well I'm waiting! Who's going to deliver that 2nd bottle this time of night?

 

Rather boring dear!

Edited October 2, 2023 by Kopek

[Chie]

15 hours ago, The Bastard said:

Shame that the largest IOM Help and Events group seems basically to have been hijacked by Fenton for attention-seeking conspiracy nonsense of late, and he's an admin of it, so there's nobody to tell him to GTFO and make his own conspiracy group. Needs a new group setting up with sane admins, it's become a clown show.

Which group?

[The Phantom]

On 10/1/2023 at 10:38 AM, Gladys said:

There was once a single land mass from which the world as we know it originated, Pangea (?).  There is an animation at the Manx Museum showing the continental drift (if that the right term?). 

No, nothing floated like a boat, but it is more easily described in those terms to kids, perhaps? 

Yep - Pangea.  Approx 200m years ago. Dinosaur time.  This is why you get fossils and rock types that will match, but now have entire oceans separating them.   Prior to that there seemed to be two supercontinents which collided; Gondwana, which was the southern continents (Africa, S America, Australia) and Laurasia, which was N America, Europe, Asia. 

 

21 hours ago, Ringy Rose said:

The Earth’s crust sits on the mantle, which is essentially viscous.

So yes, the tectonic plates do float.

 

The mantle isn't actually liquid.  There is liquid rock down there, but that's the outer core and about 3000km deep.  The mantle would be more accurately described as 'ductile' or like a very thick playdough.  It will flow, bend and move, but very very slowly and it moves due to convection.  The 'lava' you see at volcanoes is only locally produced due usually to the release of pressure, which is key.  Like when you can boil water at 60C at great height due to the lack of pressure, the opposite occurs underground.  There is so much pressure, that even though the temperature is hot enough to melt rock, it won't actual liquify.  Also due to this pressure, it is extremely dense and because the crust is less dense, it does effectively float on top.