The Round Earth Molten Core (We Are Not Melting)

there's a guy, an expert, he buries boxes full of TNT in the middle of some desert, about ten feet deep.
then he detonates it.

then, and here's the clever part, he listens for echos, with a convoluted stethoscope, and has thus determined much and more about the 'earths core'.

science, it's mostly really stupid.

there's a guy, an expert, he buries boxes full of TNT in the middle of some desert, about ten feet deep.
then he detonates it.

then, and here's the clever part, he listens for echos, with a convoluted stethoscope, and has thus determined much and more about the 'earths core'.

science, it's mostly really stupid.

Instead of using CAT-scans and X-rays to see the center of the Earth, researchers use waves emitted by earthquakes to get a sense of the planet’s innards. Just like an X-ray, seismic waves bounce around, changing direction and speed based on the material they pass through. If researchers can gauge how quickly a wave moves from one tracking station to another, they can get a pretty good sense of what the ground that wave is traveling through looks like.

Just as an FYI, the round earth inner core is believed to be solid, not molten.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core

there's a guy, an expert, he buries boxes full of TNT in the middle of some desert, about ten feet deep.
then he detonates it.

then, and here's the clever part, he listens for echos, with a convoluted stethoscope, and has thus determined much and more about the 'earths core'.

science, it's mostly really stupid.

Quote from: markjo on November 24, 2014, 09:41:43 PM

Just as an FYI, the round earth inner core is believed to be solid, not molten.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core

However, everything would have to sink down and the mantle would need to be solid as well...

Quote from: Jingle Jangle on November 25, 2014, 07:15:13 AM

Quote from: markjo on November 24, 2014, 09:41:43 PM

Just as an FYI, the round earth inner core is believed to be solid, not molten.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core

However, everything would have to sink down and the mantle would need to be solid as well...

Not always.  A lot of it depends on the relative densities of the different materials, which does not necessarily depend on something being solid or liquid.  After all, solid wood generally floats quite nicely on top of liquid water.

Quote from: RuSpinningAround? on November 25, 2014, 05:26:37 AM

there's a guy, an expert, he buries boxes full of TNT in the middle of some desert, about ten feet deep.
then he detonates it.

then, and here's the clever part, he listens for echos, with a convoluted stethoscope, and has thus determined much and more about the 'earths core'.

science, it's mostly really stupid.

Yet it gives you your computer and internet to type that post and have it sent.

Quote from: RuSpinningAround? on November 25, 2014, 05:26:37 AM

there's a guy, an expert, he buries boxes full of TNT in the middle of some desert, about ten feet deep.
then he detonates it.

then, and here's the clever part, he listens for echos, with a convoluted stethoscope, and has thus determined much and more about the 'earths core'.

science, it's mostly really stupid.

Is he an anti blow up guy or does he do this on a train track a few miles away?
Frigging stethoscope after TNT blasts to figure out Earth's core. Hahahahaha. Nice one, that made me laugh like hell. 

Quote from: RuSpinningAround? on November 25, 2014, 05:26:37 AM

there's a guy, an expert, he buries boxes full of TNT in the middle of some desert, about ten feet deep.
then he detonates it.

then, and here's the clever part, he listens for echos, with a convoluted stethoscope, and has thus determined much and more about the 'earths core'.

science, it's mostly really stupid.

The density of lava compared to water exceeds by only a factor of three...  However, the viscosity of lava comes to about 89 Pa, exceeding the viscosity of water by a factor of 100,000...  Considering this fact, any stethoscope experiment proves to be inaccurate... The sound would bounce off differently every single time...  You need a liquid with a very low viscosity like alcohol or water for ultra penetration of sound waves...

Something to ponder over...

What sinks and rises only depends on density not viscosity...  It would just take a longer period of time for something to sink...  And the alleged methane environment of early earth seemingly complicates the issue by several more degrees, pointing out the actual fact that methane molecules cool things down slower due to their lower kinetic momentum than standard air. (things cool down because air molecules make contact with objects and absorb thermal energy then flee away)

Quote from: Göebbels on November 25, 2014, 05:28:03 AM

Quote from: RuSpinningAround? on November 25, 2014, 05:26:37 AM

there's a guy, an expert, he buries boxes full of TNT in the middle of some desert, about ten feet deep.
then he detonates it.

then, and here's the clever part, he listens for echos, with a convoluted stethoscope, and has thus determined much and more about the 'earths core'.

science, it's mostly really stupid.

Yet it gives you your computer and internet to type that post and have it sent.

the tires and engine on my car too?

are all inventors scientists, i equate them as being closer to engineers, making things and theorizing as to their structure, or why they work expressed mathematically, are very different.

and as i said, most of it is stupid, this does allow for a remainder.

lastly, you do realise that the 'internet', and being 'on it' is dependent on and fundamentally the telephone.

and despite the hype, computers + internet = people staring at a screen, full of almost entirely bullshit; ring any bells?
separate hyperbole from the actual facts and most cutting-edge advances are not.

Quote from: sceptimatic on November 25, 2014, 06:35:47 AM

Quote from: RuSpinningAround? on November 25, 2014, 05:26:37 AM

there's a guy, an expert, he buries boxes full of TNT in the middle of some desert, about ten feet deep.
then he detonates it.

then, and here's the clever part, he listens for echos, with a convoluted stethoscope, and has thus determined much and more about the 'earths core'.

science, it's mostly really stupid.

Is he an anti blow up guy or does he do this on a train track a few miles away?
Frigging stethoscope after TNT blasts to figure out Earth's core. Hahahahaha. Nice one, that made me laugh like hell. 

i think he and his little troupe of acolytes travel by battered 4x4, as is the fashion for the indiana jones archetype adventurer-visionary, there is at least one, probably many, propaganda/documentary that shows him out in the wild with his shovel and explosives.

he appears, unsurprisingly, to be quite a twat.

i note the five mile wide ball of molten steel has recently morphed into a solid version. crackpot theories habitually 'evolve' as they 'shit the bed', basically claiming the excrement was always there, and both intentional and vital.

so the spinning, while circling, while flying, while moving rock ball now has a ball bearing. going round in circles indeed.

However, everything would have to sink down and the mantle would need to be solid as well...

Also...

Tomato soup and skin flotation does not serve as a suitable example since the skin possesses a different composition than the soup itself...  The skin already possesses a lower density...

Considering we've apparently only been able to drill down about 7km, I'd say that this core carry on is a pathetic fantasy if the Earth was a globe.