iamord:

I guess that answers why africans have made little or no discovery. Shey

CoolHunk: When will Africa discover something tangible?

princefunmi:




So that's where all the waters in Noah's flood went!!!

back2sender:

So with Nigeria strong Christian foundation why is the country full of corruption abi naa ordinary stealing, nepotism, evils, civil strife etc. Christianity was a tool used to colonise Africa . Compare the trends from start say for example 1900 when christaininty was not pronouced and now that its the in thing viz-a-viz the quality of life. The difference is clear.

Churches are business centres , I go to church and my madam is a senior pastor in one of the fastest growing penticostal churches so i kow what i am saying. My actions are guided by the rotaract principles

Nikapetrelli: Gud to knw.Fp tins

mstik: wow...
water makes up about two-thirds of the earth....
this reservoir is three times the size of all water on earth....
interesting.....

harffie:
That's because we don't try hard enough!

jaybee:

not quite true sir!

Water makes up two thirds of the earth's surface
This reservoir of water is three times the volume of all the oceans

Please stop this deliberate and mischievous attempt to distort scientific facts if you have no positive contribution to make.

uzoexcel: lol..will check it out

Sparrow13: In the beginning, when God created the universe, The earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the spirit of God was moving over the water.
Gen. 1:1-2
Then God commanded, "let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear" and it was done.
He (GOD) name the land "Earth", and the water which had come together HE named "sea". And God was pleased with what he saw. Gen. 1:9-10
*THEY ONLY DESCOVER WHAT THE BIBLE SAID*

bushdoc9919: It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.…

Genesis 7 vs 10-12.

Interesting......

eleojo23: Science keeps discovering more and more. Methinks there are still many things science doesn't know yet. There is definitely a creator somewhere who masterfully designed the universe.

eleojo23: Science keeps discovering more and more. Methinks there are still many things science doesn't know yet. There is definitely a creator somewhere who masterfully designed the universe.

naijaguy77:

Firstly, Science never claimed to know everything. In fact, the very essence of the scientific method is the admission that science does not know and needs to find out - research, hypothesise, experiment, confirmation, and repeat vigorously. It ia religion that tells you something and instructs you not to argue and to believe without evidence.

Secondly, if your reason for believing that seemingly complex things must have a creator, does that not lead to the bottomless hole of questions - who created the creator? Who created the creator of the creator? Who created the creator of the creator? And so on. At what point do you stop?

RedBenson: Scientifically before this discovery, water occupies 71% of the earth surface and land is only 29%, now with this vast volume of water being discovered again, what changes in percentage has been effected on the volume of land and water? I'm sure water is now 97% and land 3%. This shows that the entired world is very simple to destroy if hydrous method is to be used like in the days of Noah. To me, whether scientists like it or not, God created all these things according to His will. One of thier postulated methods on how the earth was formed even mentioned something in affiliation to the wonderful work of The Lord.

playboy19: What they discovered is nothing new. We've been reading about this since like before we can even say our name. Ask any 4 year old christian child about this and he'd tell you without thinking twice.

Took the Almighty God just 6 days to create all these. It has taken scientists millions of years just to get past Genesis Chap 1 vs 9 and that's just a verse from the creation story. I'm sure it'll take them another long long time to get past another verse from the creation revelation. Shows you how powerful God really is.

Repteam: This water scares d shit out of me. What do they call people that are sacred of big ocean or so?

bushdoc9919: It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.…

Genesis 7 vs 10-12.

Interesting......

Caleycash: it should be Oceanophobia

iamord:


Wow!! It seems you guys have. A vast well of knowlege of the world.. Now that. The scientist have seen what. U guys already know about.. I will like to know. What is the use of the water there?

dtito:
A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface. The finding may explain where Earth’s seas came from, and lend some interesting evidence to the Hollow Earth Theory.

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. Many 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.

“It’s good evidence the Earth’s water came from within,” says Steven Jacobsen of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The hidden water could also act as a buffer for the oceans on the surface, explaining why they have stayed the same size for millions of years.

Jacobsen’s team used 2000 seismometers to study the seismic waves generated by more than 500 earthquakes. These waves move throughout Earth’s interior, including the core, and can be detected at the surface. “They make the Earth ring like a bell for days afterwards,” says Jacobsen.

By measuring the speed of the waves at different depths, the team could figure out which types of rocks the waves were passing through. The water layer revealed itself because the waves slowed down, as it takes them longer to get through soggy rock than dry rock.



Jacobsen worked out in advance what would happen to the waves if water-containing ringwoodite was present. He grew ringwoodite in his lab, and exposed samples of it to massive pressures and temperatures matching those at 700 kilometres down.

Sure enough, they found signs of wet ringwoodite in the transition zone 700 kilometres down, which divides the upper and lower regions of the mantle. At that depth, the pressures and temperatures are just right to squeeze the water out of the ringwoodite. “It’s rock with water along the boundaries between the grains, almost as if they’re sweating,” says Jacobsen.

Jacobsen’s finding supports a recent study by Graham Pearson of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Pearson studied a diamond from the transition zone that had been carried to the surface in a volcano, and found that it contained water-bearing ringwoodite, the first strong evidence that there was lots of water in the transition zone (Nature, doi.org/s6h).

“Since our initial report of hydrous ringwoodite, we’ve found another ringwoodite crystal, also containing water, so the evidence is now very strong,” says Pearson.

So far, Jacobsen only has evidence that the watery rock sits beneath the US. He now wants to find out if it wraps around the entire planet.

“We should be grateful for this deep reservoir,” says Jacobsen. “If it wasn’t there, it would be on the surface of the Earth, and mountain tops would be the only land poking out.”