Cleaning the Tub

after inhaling cleaning fluids

here i go man, can't stop..... ever think about what would happen if the earth began to dissolve, literally? I mean 1st the surface would probably begin to liquifey as some alien solvent (invisible and oderless and tasteless of course) eats it away. Some sort of initial equilibrium may form, where a mile thick gelatenous ooze exists all over the planet, buildings, if constructed well, would probably float on or like within it. It would suck, but life could go on. Eventually though, as the reaction proceeds, the whole world would dissolve. The density would decrease and the radius would increase as a new sort of jelloplanet is spawned, the moon would be engulfed by the ooze and, it being totally anhydrous in chemical composition, it would not dissolve. Well, maybe a thin layer of ooze might form due to some unknow reason, don't ask me to speculate on that now, it' too distracting, it's the big picture I'm after here,

suffice it to say the moon's orbit would be entirely within the volume of the expanded jello earth, so it would plow it's way through the jello in a continuous manner, always providing a formidable but predicable obstacale for everyday life to cope with, man.. so anyway, the dissolving action would take a while, 100's of years if the we used the over the counter stuff. So we will have time to adapt, and generations would accept the condition as normal. The upper reaches of the slime could be livable, though the solar radiation would be fatal to most life forms, see the atmoshere and ozone layer would have been destroyed, absorbed into the jello. Farther down the pressure or the moon, might get to you, cars, modified for 3 dimensional transport would probably be our only practical living option, since pressure suits would be needed to go out.
Cars would be welded together into sheet metal shanties. They don't have to run, all propolsion is by air jets, the tires providing lift against the lowered gravity, but if you get one flat too many on your mansion of welded Pintos it's a slow sinking to the center of the earth! In the areas of super high density jellified planet earth, the only thing alive are bug eyed things the size of buses that look like Keith Richards. They eat metal and whatever else falls down there. Also, scavengers in armor plated Corvairs, roaming the graveyard of unlucky bastards for scraps...Not a pretty thought is it?? I always have nightmares after cleaning the bathtub.
go - by terra incognita