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本帖最后由 bernina 于 2009-8-14 01:41 编辑
50.From a draft textbook manuscript submitted to a publisher.
"As Earth was being formed out of the collision of space rocks, the heat from those collisions and from the increasing gravitational energy of the planet made the entire planet molten, even the surface. Any water present would have evaporated and gone off into space. As the planet approached its current size, however, its gravitation became strong enough to hold gases and water vapor around it as an atmosphere. Because comets are largely ice made up of frozen water and gases, a comet striking Earth then would have vaporized. The resulting water vapor would have been retained in the atmosphere, eventually falling as rain on the cooled and solidified surface of Earth. Therefore, the water in Earth's oceans must have originated from comets."
自认为这篇是最近最好的了~~~
Grounding on the theory mentioned above, supposing that comet would be vaporized when strike earth, and then synthesizing a series of hypothesizes and supposing a condition about earth, the author accordingly claims that oceans originated from comet. However, it is fraught with vague, oversimplified, and unwarranted assumptions and exposed the inconsistency in the textbook.
Begin with, the author infers on the assumption that a comet strike the earth is inevitable result that it is would be vaporized. This is fallacious, at least without sufficient evidences, with which comet strike can vapor as only result. It is possible that when it strikes earth, the comet maybe cannot be vapor. Because the comets largely ice make up of frozen water and gases, it is known to all that evaporation need a certain temperature to make it vaporize. The author lack to supply this condition and haste to posit the comet would vapor it is unconvincing. Besides, the froze water maybe only change to little bead and the gravitational cannot hold the bead, with which all or many of bead throw to the space by the centrifugal force. Even if the temperature is enough to vapor the comet, the author fails to provide how large of the volume about comet vaporized, maybe it is a little part of the comet, and the rest is fall to surface of the earth. So without a detailed analysis of the reasons for the comet vaporized and rule out the comet vaporized grade, it is absurd for author to assert the strike can vapor comet.
Secondly, the author only to provide the fact that the current planet have strong enough to hold gases and water vapor around it as atmosphere, so he unfair it to the odd water vapor is also retained in the atmosphere. Maybe the atmosphere is saturation and the earth could not have power to hold the water vapor from comet. Even if the earth can retain the odd water vapor, the author ignores to supply the evidence that the rains from comet vaporized. Maybe the comet vaporized form the water vapor and gas, and make up the atmosphere, and do not fall to the earth by rain. Furthermore, in this textbook, the author does not provide the basic information about the rain and how the rains form.
Additionally, even if the rain is come from the water vapor by the comet, is maybe one of the factors to up come to ocean not the main cause. Maybe the other subjects came from space, for example, the asteroid, which attrite with atmosphere and form the water vapor. What’s more, the earth maybe has large water when it origination, and after many years the separate water or lake make up the ocean. The author ascribe the rain from the comet vaporized is the only factor exclusive to form ocean, the reason it is irrational. In short, the result is fallacious unless other factors that may contributable to the same result.
To sum up, the author supplies a seemingly favorable process to the ocean, whereas his deduction is unwarranted. To buttress the conclusion, the author should provide evidence that the earth have no water when it origination. Additionally, the author must rule out other possible causes of the ocean. |
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