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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Crack in the World! |
| 2009-11-03 |
| A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm. The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied. A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a sea is in the region's future. The same rift activity is slowly parting the Red Sea, too.... Say, didn't someone make a movie about this? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #7 Ona separate note, GUAM > proposals in the works to build a large tradional, antiquitious CHamorro or Micronesian House for tourists + community affairs in HOTEL ROW [ e.g. YPAO BEACH]. ME > "FUTURE TIME"? PROB> In an OLD DREAMS/VISIONS, I saw a similar designed structure being partially submerged by the sea [GLOBAL WARMING = RISING SEA LEVELS]. OTOH, iff our parents and grandparents, etc. can survive and prosper thru the GREAT DEPRESSION, WW1, WW2, COLD WAR, ....... + MTV RAP, WE CAN DO THE SAME. WE ARE ALL "PEOPLE OF OUR TIME, WE ARE ALL VICTIMS AND BENEFICIARIES OF THE TIMES WE LIVE IN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-11-03 20:40 |
| #6 AlmostAnonymous5839: Well, the part more than 10 miles below the surface is controversial. Especially in the Pacific northwest, where you have things like many mile wide stone "bearings" turning in a circle between plates, with volcanoes at their edges and stuff like that. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-11-03 20:01 |
| #5 New or the continuation of the Great Rift Valley? |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-03 17:57 |
| #4 Plate tectonics is controversial? AGW is controversial, ACC is controversial, my sexlife is controversial! Plate tectonics is established theory. (ROLLS EYES) Reporter retardation is rampant. I need to make that into a T-shirt. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-11-03 17:00 |
| #3 Please, no one must tell Al Gore about this. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-11-03 16:37 |
| #2 Faster, please! |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-11-03 16:10 |
| #1 Yup..and a great film it was...one of my favs with Dana Andrews. Pretty good special effects for the '60's. I have it on DVD and my wife just rolls her eyes when I cue it up.... ;) |
| Posted by: Warthog 2009-11-03 15:56 |