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By: Big Boomer

Big Boomer — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:13:41 +0000

The video clip of the expanding Earth has been removed from YouTube. Will you be updating your site to that factoid soon?

Some young readers might not realize that some of the “fun facts” displayed on these pages is more based on opinion and partial information than substantive science. So it would be nice if you would post a banner that announces that these “fun facts” are not to be taken as truth but rather serve to inspire readers to do their own investigations.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:15:25 +0000

I read the fact about how there are more insects in 1 square mile of fertile soil than there are humans on the entire earth. I think that is really gross and I couldn’t even imagine seeing that many insects.

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By: Phil B

Phil B — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:11:49 +0000

The expanding earth theory is really interesting, whether correct or not.

Thought I’d add: if it is true, then gravity on the surface of the Earth in the dinosaur times would have been LARGER. Because the mass of the earth would not have changed, so it would still have the same gravity, but the surface of the earth would be CLOSER to the centre of gravity – so gravity would be stronger on the surface in the past.

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By: Nerds pfft

Nerds pfft — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:14:37 +0000

Wow, you people seriously need to chill down. We’re trying to have
fun here and then all of a sudden, you smart people are saying “No, that’s not true. Blah blah blah” Yeah yeah, just shut the hell up if
you don’t like reading these fun facts.

By: Espen Berg

Espen Berg — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:18:16 +0000

Neal seems to have a good case regarding at least some important points.
Why the continents appear to fit together on a smaller planet? Where is the missing 2/3 of Earths crust? Where are the subduction zones? What is the mechanism that allows the continents to spread and rejoin several times at the exact same place they once broke off?
How could all the continents be located on one side of the globe and all the water on the other side?

If it cannot be explained, it alone has the potential to disprove plate techtonics as we know it.
Finally: How could the dinosaurs grow so big if the gravitation has been constant?

What does all of this add up to? Sounds to me to be more like another “Magic Bullet Theory?” Why are not these difficult questions adressed by the scientists?
The weak part of this, is that Neal provides us with an insufficient explanation as for how the Earth could possibly be growing, because his theory breaks with the most fundamental physical laws accepted in modern science. But even if he might well be wrong in pointing out HOW this could work, he still could be right in his primary claim: that the continents once must have been together at all sides, simultaneously!

By: Aileen

Aileen — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:15:23 +0000

Hi, Neal! Glad to have you weigh in on this interesting theory. It’s easy to see the resistance you’ve encountered is a bit overblown if it’s such a dismissible throw-away, which always gives me giggles about the supposed “open minded” nature of scientific investigation. It’s not always what it’s been cracked up to be, but is fun to keep track of anyway.

Thanks!

By: Neal Adams

Neal Adams — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:48:00 +0000

Neal Adams here. Just told of this. With your permission
“Expanding Earth” was the name given this theory by it’s originator, Professor of Geology Sammuel Warren Carey in the 60’s, I call it “Growing Earth-Growing Universe” Expanding make me think of a balloon.
Mention has been made that this theory was discredited. Not true. “Bi- passed” rather, when a subducting plate was spotted above Samoa, by Wadaddi and Benioff, the front-men of the Subduction theory.
Subduction has therefore had a 40 year free ride to prove that IT is the one clue to the concept that the Earth EATS IT’S OWN CRUST. Not all the crust. Just the oceanic plates. (Geologists attend.)
“Conspiracy to surpress” Never said it. A lie. “Conspiracy of thought”
Yes. A fave rave in the fields of science.
I… am quoted as saying scientists are co-conspirators against… uh, NO….although it IS a funny thought. All those lab-coats in a darkened room, Hunched over computers and black boards and pulling their hair out while screaming on phones placed around the room. heh,heh,heh. Tickles.
Dinosaurs WOULD increase their TOP POTENTIAL Weight, easily if the Gravity were 1/3 of today. And they were, on average 3 to 4 times as big as animals today.

Wegeners original Tectonics theory was discredited, and he ignored. Now we have the almost hysterically preposterous Pangea theory,….that says: All the land masses on Earth were….gathered on one side of the Earth, in what we call the Pacific into an island called Rodinia. They stayed that way for, oh 300 MY’s. Then one fine day Rodinia broke into pieces and scattered outward from a central point and spread around the world to have their other sides RE-JION together in the Atlantic, into an island, again. A new island that they call Pangea.
The conglomeration stayed togerher in this Pangea island for about 250 MY’s
Then PANGEA broke in half and the two halves went TO AND OVER the North And South poles, broke apart further and the pieces are NOW traveling to CRASH AT THE EQUATOR,….re-joining at exactly the same place ,to the inch, that they broke apart at.
That’s the theory that I find difficult to believe. I don’t know why.