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Life may have survived 'Snowball Earth' in ocea

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Life may have survived 'Snowball Earth' in ocean pockets


Science | 206874 hits | Dec 14 3:40 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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Life may have survived a cataclysmic global freeze some 700 million years ago in pockets of open ocean.

Comments

  1. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:59 pm
    Havent they known his for years?

  2. by avatar PostFactum
    Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:01 pm
    Now we know more about our very far relatives. :D

  3. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:07 pm
    "PostFactum" said
    Now we know more about our very far relatives. :D

    We need to get you a hockey helmet PF.

  4. by avatar PostFactum
    Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:13 pm
    "Guy_Fawkes" said
    Now we know more about our very far relatives. :D

    We need to get you a hockey helmet PF.
    Why? 8O I don't play hochey.

  5. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:01 pm
    Catastrophic global cooling! OMG! PANIC!!!!

  6. by Prof_Chomsky
    Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:28 pm
    OMG, scientific knowledge... Must... close... mind...

  7. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:31 pm
    OMG, scientific guesswork...Must..believe...unwaveringly.

  8. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:32 pm
    "PublicAnimalNo9" said
    OMG, scientific guesswork...Must..believe...unwaveringly.


    :lol:

  9. by Thanos
    Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:04 pm
    The Snowball Earth hypothesis is just that - a hypothesis - and while most agree on the evidence for a deep freeze, argument remains over the causes and the extent to which the entire globe froze during the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations.

    Some wonder how any life could have survived such a deep freeze.


    How is this even plausible at all? Partial glaciation is one thing. But aside from the planetary orbit being moved another half-million kilometers away from the Sun (possibly dragged out of orbit by a passing super-dense celestial mass like a stellar core fragment, for example), what else would even cause a complete north-to-south global freezing? And if it occurred then how could it even naturally reverse itself without a massive increase in stellar activity from good ol' Sol?

    I have major doubts on this one. This is veering dangerously close to Erich Von Daniken's tin-hatter territory.



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