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Post by howard on Feb 21, 2017 19:55:33 GMT -5
Posting for Constance
Ron, you mentioned about pushing up daisies. And I remember some time ago I asked about replacement of material on the earth and answer was meteorites. In which case the planet earth then stays in equilibrium in volume of earth etc for the manufacture of humans etc. What happens then when people, insteadof being buried or cremated get compressed into diamonds? This has been happening for some years now - maybe not in a volume as yet. But if it does then the equilibrium does get affected? Cos then we have lost the base volume of dust. Sorry but this has been bugging me. Instead of dust to dust, it becomes dust to compressed diamonds. Also bothering me is that the increase in population. Where does the extra material come from? Looked up a few sites and everyday, Earth is bombarded with more than 100tons of dust and sand-sized particles. Is that sufficient for the material in the makeup of the increase in population. I know I am off tangent here but wanted to know.
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Post by Constance hill on Feb 22, 2017 9:03:51 GMT -5
Patricia, they do have a process to turn the cremated into diamond. Volume would then not be the same as volume of ashes. My Swiss client thought it is good cos of space saving as earlier I was told that in one country you can only have the burial spot for a particular number of years. So space wise it seem more logical. The other question is if the Earth is receiving all these tons of dust and particles from space, would it then have more in and on than out? So how can we explain the recycling of humanity and keeping the equilibrium of Earth in its course with the extra weight.
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Post by howard on Feb 22, 2017 19:12:07 GMT -5
I've heard of this, quite trendy to wear your relatives. Still I don't think the amount of dust compared to the size of the planet dents the equilibrium, for the time. In the long term, perhaps trillions of years, it will add up.
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Post by Patricia on Feb 23, 2017 18:07:06 GMT -5
Interesting concept, this diamond recycling. I can't see this as a problem in terms of the balance. It's all self-contained. If the diamond contains our substance, it's the same substance, just differently distributed, right? At an atomic level, I don't think it makes a difference. There's a great video somewhere that explains just how small the stuff that makes up the atom is. Mind-blowing. The proportions of what make up the universe don't make any sense. When I think about the relative size of the earth in the universe, we might as well be subatomic. And then our atoms contain their own worlds, which may as well be universes. It's crazy. Found the video: youtu.be/yQP4UJhNn0I
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Post by Patricia on Feb 23, 2017 18:07:59 GMT -5
Howard, quite a meme you've got. And I guess I need to sign up so that I'm not a guest.
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Post by howard on Feb 23, 2017 18:44:06 GMT -5
Saw the video, it was really small and dense.
My meme is a small pop culture joke
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2017 19:00:22 GMT -5
In physics, the total mass of the Earth does not change when the dendities of natter change from dust to diamond. Most of matter consusts of emoty space so that even diamonds are not very dense. They seem hard to us because we are relatively less dense. Furthermore, every volcanic eruption brings up compressed matter to the surface.
As for change in the mass of the Earth, they are too small to make a difference.
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Post by Admin on Feb 25, 2017 12:51:49 GMT -5
Patricia, Why are you a still a "guest" here? Register and post your foto.
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Post by patricia on Mar 4, 2017 12:57:41 GMT -5
No longer a guest. Welcome to me.
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