Global Warming & the Flood

If you injected it into orbit, it has to re-enter at that velocity.
There is no way around that.A water droplet entering the upper atmosphere at such a speed
would be instantly vaporized by air friction. If it then re-condenses later, it has to dump the heat of condensation into the atmosphere.This is what I think you are missing. To boil water, you have to supply a certain amount of heat (the latent heat of vaporization).
Condensation is basically the same thing in reverse- for steam to condense to water, it must transfer heat to another medium (air, a solid).I think this is all moot. Your model must begin by explaining what geologic process could inject a mass of water/steam equal to three times that of the oceans into low Earth orbit.Unless you can explain this, the model is a non-starter, physically.This message has been edited by paisano, 08-02-2005 08:18 AM

In the sense of a permanent alteration, yes, it's incorrect. The Earth is in a stable bound state orbit under a central force (Solar gravitation). For such an orbit, small perturbations lead to small oscillations about the equilibrium orbit - they don't change the orbital parameters that determine the shape of the orbit.Recall that the Earth is constantly subject to small perturbations (relative to the Sun's gravity) due to the changing relative positions of other planets, but this doesn't cause permanent changes to the orbit. Any reactive effect of the sort you're appealing to would be orders of magnitude lower even than these.

Well, as long as you recognize that this is strictly a religious belief, lacks any scientific evidence, and, therefore (as you've stated) should not be taught as science, I don't have a problem with you holding this view.I'd also like to commend you for conducting this discussion with civility and class, and staying on topic. You've set a benchmark for YECs, IMO.