Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / March 2008

What makes our planet special in a geometric sense, is the existence
of the Phi proportion in animate and inanimate objects - Plato called
the relationship the most binding known  geometric relationship while
Kepler called it a jewel.

A few years ago _Science News_ ran some dubious sounding idea about
using a batch of molten iron to take instruments all the way to the
mantle.
Supposedly the weight of the iron would cleave right through miles and

I watched a show on Natgeo which showed the formation of earth and the
solar system as they are now. It supported the following theory,  a
few billion years after the formation of solar system,when the earth
was still in the molten state, a planet half the size of earth

Big-Money and Big-Brother.
Let's be clear about what the upcoming Olympics in  Bejing are all about.
The Chinese Communist Party desperately wants a successful
Olympics as a path to world-wide legitimacy for their form of

Is my performance so far this year good, bad or ugly?
On a total of 26 trades
I've had 13 winners, 5 losers and 5 ties (+-1%) this year.
The 13 winners ave return was 8% each

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Odin G. S. (2008). - Description and illustration of forty-four gilianelles
(microproblematica) and ten other microproblematica of the Cretaceous of
the stratotype section at Tercis (Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary),
South-West France. - Carnets de Géologie - Notebooks on Geology ...

Many people are well aware that the excesses of the 'scientific
method' and its ultra-secular tendencies  is increasingly destroying
the ability to work productively ,many geologists would know that
biological evolution and geological data would have been part and

From reading an article it appears that there may be a tendency to
decouple some tectonic activity partially from underlying  plate
motion thereby relieving some obstacles between crustal evolution  and
surface feature generation and events.

Here is something new -
If you could follow the orbital motion of the Earth,both the Earth and
the moon would show the same orientation to the central Sun -
http://www.awakening-healing.com/images/EarthMoon_mariner10_big.jpg

The following links show a mummified dinosaur called Leonardo, which
is the world's best-preserved dinosaur.
The most remarkable thing about the dinosaur is that on the left side
of its ribcage, each rib lost its upper halves while the lower halves

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080317.RMINERS17/TPStory/Business
What a difference a few years makes.  Used to be a giant pit mine.

Heard on the radio coming home that the last of the great science
fiction/science fact writers, Arthur C. Clarke, 90, died today at his
home in Colombo Sri Lanka. Although vaguely aware that he was crippled
in some way, today was the first time I found out how -- post-polio

I had about 40 people for the talk yesterday morning. Mostly older
folk-- younger ones no doubt were out partying at 9 a.m. for St. Paddies
day, as this curious custom of the US of moving the festival to the
nearest Saturday rather than the 17th has taken hold.