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istara  ·  3912 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ringwoodite in tiny diamond suggests water reservoirs in the Earth's mantle

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