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Comment Re:Headline is misleading (Score 2) 48

It is actually different. In terms of relative, linear velocity, it is correct that the nearest part of the core to a particular point on the surface, it is moving backwards, but then the furthest part of the core from that point is moving in the same direction. The aggregate motion of the core linearly relative to the any point on the surface is zero, so it is not even the core that can be said to be moving backwards. Moreover spinning is angular velocity, not linear, and it is not spinning backwards, it is spinning the same direction, just not as quickly.

Comment Re: Plain old O2 oxygen (Score 1) 51

You, and apparently the climate scientists are unaware of the xenobiological component of the planet, specifically that the sandworms generate oxygen, possibly along with the other phases of their lifecycle, the sand plankton and sandtrout. If the sand plankton emits much at all, that is an enormous source, as it is the food source for the worms.

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