I am uncomfortable with some ideas that [MENTION=17583]iouae[/MENTION] (“vowels” to most here) expressed in opposition to Walt Brown. I don’t know if iouae still follows this thread or has moved on. But anyway – JR responded quite well to iouae, and I want to back him in that. Specifically iouae posted:
… Here is the size of what scientists call doomsday or killer meteors...
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In what could be a major scientific puzzle, the team's new size estimate for the dino-killing meteorite is a mere 2.5 to 3.7 miles (4 to 6 kilometers) across.
The most recent computer models predicted a size of 9 to 12 miles (15 to 19 kilometers) across."
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080410-sea-meteorites.html
So a lump of rock a mere 3 to 12 miles across was able to wipe out the dinosaurs so that none survived.
And these rocks travel at about mach 70.
Yet this pinprick sized rock can cause a mass extinction because of its velocity.
What you and your hydroplate buddy propose is a reverse of a meteor striking earth. Same energy principle.
I don’t know what same energy principle means, but I do know that it would take as much energy to throw a meteor into space as a meteor impacting the earth releases. But a simple analogy shows why that does not mean equal devastation results when incoming as outgoing.
I go deer hunting. Some idiot hunter sees me making my way through a thicket, and sure I am a deer, shoots at me. The bullet hits my shoulder, breaking bones, shredding flesh, and causing me to say some unprintable things to the idiot. A year later, I am back in the woods, and I see that idiot as he is hunting. I raise my rifle to my still sore, but now usable shoulder, and launch my bullet on a perfect path to his rear end.
Last year the bullet was incoming, this year outgoing, both times with equal energy, but the resultant damage to my shoulder was immensely different last year. Equal energy, why not equal damage? The difference is that this year, I supplied the required energy not by decimating my shoulder, but by means of some high-energy powder behind the bullet, and having that energy transferred to the bullet over the length of the 20 inches of barrel before it exited the muzzle. Last year the transfer of energy from the bullet to my shoulder was almost instantaneous, and done at the expense of bones and flesh.
As JR pointed out, Walt’s fountain is kinda like a 60-miles long gun barrel, with a huge supply of energetic SCW acting like gunpowder.
