08-14-2011, 09:59 PM
(08-14-2011, 09:38 PM)IMaDick Wrote: did comets form our oceans?
Godammit, Dick. I expect you to have a working knowledge of Earth, even if you don't know shit about the things on Earth.
The ice from comets is heavy water. Less than 10% of the water on Earth is heavy water (deuterium, if you want to look it up, it's an isotope). Earth was formed from an accretion disk. The water that is found on Earth has been here from the early times, before the land actually cooled when the majority of chunks were being pulled in to create Earth. We find water in some form on almost all of the other planets and some moons.
Earth was hot at first, from the accretion (chunks colliding) and the water was trapped in rocks and as steam in the atmosphere. A billion or so years later, cooling and geologic activity released the water from the rocks and condensed the water into oceans.
I'm assuming you aren't retarded enough to think comets made the ocean beds. Because I'm not going to explain about dense basalt and less dense granite to a grown man.