Did you know about the giant Japanese Spider Crab?

@Imperious:

Why should they not have lived in the water

They lived close to water sources like your hippo example. They were herbivores.

My hippo example was living in the water. Did you miss that point?
And where is the answer to question i asked ?

What was the MECHANISM that made the earth grow

Its spinning faster and and the forces of the rotation cause the equator to bulge outward. That is why the Earth is not a perfect sphere. Some of the outer planets have demonstrated this “spinning top” characteristic quite well (Saturn).

You are not even trying to answer the questions, instead you try to just sidestep and miss them so close that people might think you answer them. And you are contradicting yourself: it is not spinning faster. The spin is slowing down.

The earth is slowly getting larger and its moving very slowly farther away from the sun. … In the past millions of years the rotation of the earth around the sun has actually took longer…

I am saying that the earths rotation is moving more slowly and the earth is moving farther from the sun. I didn’t say the year was getting shorter ( in fact i didn’t say anything at all about the year except that in the past it took longer for the earth to complete its revolution around the sun.

ARGH
ONE YEAR = 1 REVOLUTION OF THE EARTH AROUND THE SUN

Now look at your quotes:
“In the past millions of years the rotation of the earth around the sun has actually took longer” = in the past a year was longer => now it is shorter.
" I didn’t say the year was getting shorter ( in fact i didn’t say anything at all about the year except that in the past it took longer for the earth to complete its revolution around the sun. "

You do that on purpose, right?
I mean, no one can possibly be so stupid and quote himself and then contradict his own quote in the next line.
Or do you have a problem with your short term memory, that would explain it.

With respect to the gravity issue i am only telling you what i learned in class and read. I thought this was common knowledge, but i am shocked that nobody knows this. I will post something from NASA or a some major source to back up the gravity change.

I am shocked that you (a) have no idea what gravity is, and (b) can’t count to one.

You are just repeating yourself with no content.

@Imperious:

… In the past millions of years the rotation of the earth around the sun has actually took longer

To the Nth time: that means you say a Year was longer in those times.

I didn’t say the year was getting shorter

What does it mean that a year was longer in long-ago times….  ?

in this case i am talking about two different things: the rotation taking longer and the revolution around the sun taking longer both facts during Earths early age.

That means that both the Day and the Year were longer in those early ages. That is contradicting everything you said so far.

If you look at the sites i posted it will explain why the earth 1) has different gravity zones depending on where you are 2) why the earth is larger at the equator 3) Why the earth is slowly moving further out.

That does not answer and you have not answered a single question of how and why the gravity of the earth changes.

I dont want to comment on damm Hippos, because they have little to do with giant crabs. make a new topic for your damm hippos and have fun with that.

You were unable to get the point of the hippos anyway.

I’m with Marine; time to lock this. It’s degenerated into two people repeating the same arguments, and throwing in personal attacks while they’re at it. If y’all wanna start another thread to discuss this rather interesting subject, feel free, but this thread should go.

Another chap mentioned the escape velocity of atmoshpere in low gravity.
I ask you how do you explain Titan a moon which holds a decent atmosphere and oceans of Methane and slow moving tidal waves et al? by your idea it would have lost everything and become like our moon.

Titan’s atmosphere consists of heavier molecules such as ethane.  As these molecules are heavier, it is much less likely that they will attain escape velocity.  Additionally, Titan is much, much colder than the earth and this also make it less likely that these molecules will attain escape velocity.  Finally, Titan itself seems to consist of these molecules and any atmosphere that does bleed off will get replenished.