MooPig Solutions Department :: "Water Underground"

More Water than all our Oceans, all Underground
Mixed martial articles by David Darnell and Pat Darnell  |  June 17, 2014  |  Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] "...Blue planet: Ringwoodite minerals reveal hints of what things might look like deep within the Earth..."

Waters from the deep is a common way to describe mysterious deposits of water underground. How deep? Well this referenced article claims 400 miles deep in the Earth's mantle is a vast deposit of water.

"...This water is not in a form familiar to us — it is not liquid, ice or vapour. This fourth form is water trapped inside the molecular structure of the minerals in the mantle rock. The weight of 250 miles of solid rock creates such high pressure, along with temperatures above 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, that a water molecule splits to form a hydroxyl radical (OH), which can be bound into a mineral's crystal structure (Kounteya Sinha, TNN | Jun 13, 2014. LINK)..."

Massive underground reservoir of water, ‘three times’ the size of Earth’s oceans, located - The Times of India: ""Melting of rock at this depth is remarkable because most melting in the mantle occurs much shallower, in the upper 50 miles," said Schmandt. "If there is a substantial amount of H2O in the transition zone, then some melting should take place in areas where there is flow into the lower mantle, and that is consistent with what we found."

"...If just one percent of the weight of mantle rock located in the transition zone is H2O, that would be equivalent to nearly three times the amount of water in our oceans. "
'via Blog this'


CONCLUSION
"...The Quest of science is far from over and nature has abundant resources yet to be discovered and used for needs of humanity.All that is needed is to inspire our scientists for genuine research and keep sufficient funds for them to use (Tejinder Sidhu-- CHANDIGARH. LINK)..."

How to get 400 miles deep into Earth's mantle is what we will be Googling for our next segment. I suggest Chilean miners go because they are the best.


__________________Reference
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Massive-underground-reservoir-of-water-three-times-the-size-of-Earths-oceans-located/articleshow/36493512.cms
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/deep-earth-has-oceans-worth-of-water-10-diamond-reveals-1.2569564
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/oceans-of-water-found-locked-deep-inside-earth-140612.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwoodite
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7491/full/nature13080.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/13/earth-may-have-underground-ocean-three-times-that-on-surface
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26553115
http://time.com/2868283/subterranean-ocean-reservoir-core-ringwoodite/
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/03/water_in_earth_s_mantle_revealed_by_diamond_containing_the_mineral_ringwoodite.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2014/01/moopig-stuff-no-one-wants-to-hear-about.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2014/02/moopig-tech-coroner-reality-of-no-water.html

MooPig Tech Coroner :: "Reality of no Water"

Under the Glacier
Mashed articles by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 1, 2014  |  Bryan TX

" ... Friday's action came after Gov. Jerry Brown made an official drought declaration, clearing the way for state and federal agencies to coordinate efforts to preserve water and send it where it is needed most. The governor urged Californians to reduce their water use by 20 percent. (Juliet Williams of Associated Press. 1/31/2014. LINK) ..."

Amid drought, California agency won't allot water: "SAN FRANCISCO — Amid California's most crippling drought of modern times, state officials on Friday announced they will not allocate water to agencies that serve 25 million people and nearly 1 million acres of farmland. Related: Could California be facing a century of drought? The announcement marks the first time in the 54-year history of the State Water Project that such an action has been taken. State Department of Water Resources Director Mark Cowin said the action was taken to conserve the little water that remains behind the dams in the state's vast system of reservoirs."

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CONCLUSION
No water : no life.

___________________Reference
http://news.msn.com/us/amid-drought-california-agency-wont-allot-water
http://news.msn.com/in-depth/scientists-past-california-droughts-have-lasted-200-years?ocid=msnnws

MooPig Water Department :: "Potentially Drinkable Water"

Thirsty?
Conjoined articles by Pat Darnell  |  June 9, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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Pretty soon we will have to book a flight to Mars to get a drink of fresh, unadulterated, water.

Recently on Mars, the ten year old mission record breaking NASA's Opportunity, discovered what "Scientists believe ... a lot of water once flowed through these rocks through some sort of fracture, leaving an unusually high concentration of clay. (Agence France Presse. Jun. 8, 2013. LINK)"

In a temperate climate, on Earth, adequate intake of water for males is about 13 cups, and for females it is about 9 cups a day. Water makes up 60% of the adult's body weight. To keep your eyes, ears, and, throat moist, like they are supposed to be, requires adequate intake.

So at an average of 10.5 cups per human times 7 billion, ... [cursor blink, blink, |...|...|...] ... That's 73500000000 cups of water a day across Earth.

A note from USGS web page: "...Data compilation for the report Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2010 had a delayed start in Fall 2011. Report completion and data availability are not expected until 2014. ... "

Potentially Drinkable Water Found On Mars - Business Insider: ""This is powerful evidence that water interacted with this rock and changed its chemistry, changed its mineralogy in a dramatic way," said principal investigator Steve Squyres of Cornell University. He described the research as "some of the most important" of the decade-long mission because it showcases a very different chemistry than most of the previous discoveries about water on Mars, which is now quite dry."

It makes evidence for the argument that there was water on Mars with balanced ph, "water that you could drink" about a billion years ago. But from this rock formation Opportunity has found "prebiotic" water, moisture that could support life forms.

"Opportunity and its twin rover Spirit launched in 2003 and landed in January 2004 for what was initially meant to be a three-month exploration. Both discovered evidence of wet environments on ancient Mars. (Agence France Presse. Jun. 8, 2013. LINK) ..."

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CONCLUSION
No water; no life.

The most pristine body of water on Earth is a lake in Australia. Scientists claim it is untouched by climate change for the last 7500 years. (Weather Channel. Jun 5, 2013. LINK)

" ... Blue Lake on Stradbroke Island, which lies off the south Queensland coast of Australia  ... The water here is so pure that the bottom of the nearly 33-ft.-deep lake is visible from the surface. ... "

Earth's population would drink that lake dry in one day, okay maybe in a week ... but you get the drift. Again, no water; no life.

___________________Reference
http://www.businessinsider.com/potentially-drinkable-water-found-on-mars-2013-6
https://www.google.com/search?q=water+supply%2C+infrastructure&rlz=1C1PRFB_en&oq=water+supply%2C+infrastructure&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j62.17350j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Hy-La/Infrastructure-Water-Supply.html
http://water.epa.gov/scitech/climatechange/Infrastructure.cfm
http://www.businessinsider.com/potentially-drinkable-water-found-on-mars-2013-6
http://water.usgs.gov/watuse/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/water/NU00283
http://www.weather.com/news/science/nature/worlds-only-lake-untouched-climate-change-20130605

MooPig's "Who Would Win in a Cage Match? #10"

What are we Selling, you Ask?
Capture by Pat Darnell | Jan 8, 2013 | Bryan TX

MSL, Mars Science Lab, "Curiosity" is what.
Curiosity rover has a mass of 899 kg (1,980 lb), can travel up to 90 m (300 ft) per hour on its six-wheeled rocker-bogie system, is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG), and communicates in both X band and UHF bands.

Curiosity

-- Versus --

Short Circuit

Type of robot:
Short Circuit aka Number 5 (Johnny 5) is a rather lanky-looking prototype robot with fabulously expressive eyebrows (well, metal flaps, anyway).

Role:
More than just a hunk of metal junk, Johnny 5 is a lovable 'bot who learns what it really means to be human.

Robot rating:
Amazing that the movie makers managed to create a robot that, by movie's end, appears to be so human. Number Five is alive!

http://youtu.be/RGucXXWm_RQ

_______________________Reference

http://www.virginmedia.com/movies/movieextras/top10s/top-ten-movie-robots.php?ssid=3

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

http://youtu.be/RGucXXWm_RQ

NASA Talk :: "Curiosity Self Portrait"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 31, 2012  |  Bryan TX

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Curiosity Self-Portrait, Wide View
On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity's mission on Mars (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2012), NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture dozens of high-resolution images to be combined into self-portrait images of the rover.

The mosaic shows the rover at "Rocknest," the spot in Gale Crater where the mission's first scoop sampling took place. Four scoop scars can be seen in the regolith in front of the rover. A fifth scoop was collected later.

Self-portraits like this one document the state of the rover and allow mission engineers to track changes over time, such as dust accumulation and wheel wear. Due to its location on the end of the robotic arm, only MAHLI (among the rover's 17 cameras) is able to image some parts of the craft, including the port-side wheels.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Page Last Updated: December 27, 2012
Page Editor: Sarah Loff
NASA Official: Brian Dunbar


_________________Reference
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2417.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mp4/716063main_whatsup20130101-320.mp4

Sign of LIFE on MARS !!

MARS Rising
by Pat Darnell

[LINK]
Ancient tablet bears writing, to scientists' surprise
A 2-inch-by-3-inch clay tablet is older than expected — dating to 3,350 years ago — and is found at a site in Greece where researchers did not expect to find writing.