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thenewgreen · 3690 days ago · link ·
..."when you realize how much ringwoodite there is, the transition zone could hold as much water as all the Earth’s oceans put together.”
that's quite the deduction from a small speck of ringwoodite. But it's good enough for me.. Back to taking long showers.
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Long showers? I was getting ready to meet my subterranean overlords, and all the dinosaurs and things down there. Time to rewrite that Wikipedia entry too!From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about what the interior of the Earth contains have since been disproved