Comments on: Was Gold Brought to Earth by a Pluto-Sized Planet Crasher?

By: tiddas

tiddas — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:55:36 +0000

@Doug Batchelder or, a really open mind would notice the compelling evidence that this means that God hates us and wants us to destroy the planet we are on by toxic mining for glittery googaws. No life in the universe, onward fools!

By: s

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:31:05 +0000

Surface level gold can be easily explained by tectonic movements/volcanoes.

By: JMW

JMW — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:42:02 +0000

This explanation should also account for the fact that the deepest gold mines are almost 4 km deep. Most if not all of these are located in South Africa. Would this then be the point of contact?

By: Doug Batchelder

Doug Batchelder — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:38:05 +0000

Or — an open mind would be willing to postulate this — this is the way God made it.
What a concept.

By: Jordan G Vela

Jordan G Vela — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:34:30 +0000

‘GlidingPig,’ Good idea. However, the problem expressed in the article remains essentially the same in either situation. The arrangement you mentioned seems to only add a third object. Of course, I understand that all three massive objects involved (Earth, and perhaps two planetesimals) colliding simultaneously is a statistical impossibility. So, the two large objects would have had to collide in just the right way that the heavy contents of their cores would rain over Earth’s crust (a similar situation revealed by Melosh to be difficult enough) and then still avoid tainting the Lunar surface, that is, if you wanted to consider massive collisions at greater radii. Persistently, it seems that something greater is at play here.

By: Terry Collmann

Terry Collmann — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:22:29 +0000

William Richardson: what the article says (or implies) is that Earth probably DID have original gold, but Earth’s original gold must have been sucked down into the Earth’s iron core, requiring an explanation as to how we still have some gold at or near the surface. The “Pluto-sized planet collision” theory supplies an explanation.

By: William Richardson

William Richardson — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:34:50 +0000

The explanation that gold arrived on earth from another planet or object begs the question as to its origin on earth. If gold came from other objects where did those objects obtain the gold? If other objects formed gold why could earth not have the same or similar processes to form gold.
Sorry, back to the research board for an explanation.

By: Tony P

Tony P — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:28:38 +0000

The sumarians.. lol.. mined from the moon? I like that one.. makes sense if you follow that mode of thinking. But I like the idea that the pieces broke apart before hitting the earth and had those metals already pre-exposed.

By: MaxTegmark

MaxTegmark — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:59:49 +0000

The aliens that came to mine gold off the earth during Sumerian times found it easier to remove it from the moon, hence the absence.

By: GlidingPig

GlidingPig — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:16:46 +0000

Or perhaps some large bodies were destroyed before hitting Earth and the pieces hit earth with those elements exposed already.