{"id":2083,"date":"2008-08-15T10:39:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T18:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2008-08-15T19:52:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T03:52:22","slug":"the-big-whack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"the Big Whack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giant_impact_hypothesis\">Giant impact hypothesis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been said (though not in that article) that the Pacific Ocean is the scar of the whack.  So if the whack hadn&#8217;t happened, would Earth&#8217;s crust be all continental?  In that case the plates would likely be much less mobile, and most of the big mountains would be volcanic, as on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Although a big whack may be necessary for plate tectonics as we know it, it&#8217;s apparently not sufficient; Mars is also thought to have had one, forming the northern lowlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant impact hypothesis It has been said (though not in that article) that the Pacific Ocean is the scar of the whack. So if the whack hadn&#8217;t happened, would Earth&#8217;s crust be all continental? In that case the plates would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2083\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}