HERE'S an interesting lingering effect of the Ice Age: reduced gravity in northern Canada.
Check out this excerpt from the CBC News article:
Moving to northern Canada won't make it any easier to fit into your old swimsuit, but it will help fool your bathroom scale into thinking you've lost a gram or two, thanks to a lower force of gravity in some regions.
That's according to researchers studying the impact of a massive glacial sheet that covered Canada during the last Ice Age. According to a study published Friday in the journal Science, the crushing weight of a massive glacier more than three kilometres thick caused rock beneath to compress and sink, displacing some of the semi-fluid mantle underneath the Earth's crust.
Way back 1980's there's a big news that the Phil. has a huge deposits of Deuterium (a heavy water) or hydrogen fuel.It's in our pacific ocean. If it's true, why our gov't won't focus on this for exploration. There's a lot of benefits for all of us Filipinos, if we can use hydrogen instead of oil for our needs. We can save dollars and pay our debts.
Hmmm, I think I've seen the article somewhere before. (maybe Science magazine?)
The ice mass in the Canadian glacier has become much diminished in recent years.
The difference in mass due to melting glacial ice directly corresponds to a difference in the local gravity field by distending the crust. Exactly how, the blog article doesn't explain.
Question #1: Exactly by how much was gravity diminished? Is this significant enough to be observed macroscopically?
The difference in mass due to melting glacial ice is has a corresponding effect on the weight being experienced by the crust in that area. I think the same (or a similar) study concluded that the decrease in ice mass did lead to increased incidence of earthquakes in the area. Apparenty, the ice played a stabilizing role by maintaining a steady pressure on the crust below it.
To Leo,
Deuterium??? hmmm, why should it be the job of the government to do the exploration? Certainly it should foster an environment that is friendly to invention, innovation, and wealth-generation. But at the end of the day, the only real role of government is that of the arbitrator and the policeman. If you think the government should be running the nation's life (and thus your own life by corollary) then you're opening yourself to enslavement by the sordid few who hold political power today.
If you've seen that article, why don't you go and try to find it again. Check it out if it's credible. Do a feasibility study and check whether or not you can make money off of this idea. Then get some friends together, get funding, and start drilling. Of course, it is a path rife with risk, and many a night will be a sleepless one. But remember that the entrepreneur's slumber might be uneasy and quick, but it is not an unfruitful one. you never know, you might become one of those millionnaires who populate the upper political echelon.
In the end, my point is, if you have an idea, it is well and good to voice it, but be prepared to risk complacency and take action. And idea however good has no worth, until it is reborn in the flesh of action and good works. Don't wait for someone else - least of all the government - to do anything for you. Your life is yours. Live it!