Birth of a New African Ocean 261
Khemisty writes "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one no scientist has ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Africa is splitting apart at the seams. From the southern tip of the Red Sea southward through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, the continent is coming unstitched along a zone called the East African Rift." This stretching of the earth's crust has been going on for 20 million years, and within another 10 million the Red Sea will have broken through to create a new sea.
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... without relief maps.
I don't want to read some art's grads long winded verbose description of something that can be shown to me in 2 diagrams.
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Mention of this split WILL show up in someone's eco-speech.
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as opposed to a long winded terse description?
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It's actually a solution for the problem of melting ice caps...all that extra water, instead of flooding low coastline cities, can be sucked up by this "ocean" in the making. Of course that's just a temporary fix to one of the problems of global warming, and we'll have to wait 10 million years for that fix.
Meanwhile, during a presidential debate, one party suggest that by drilling for oil there, we can solve two problems at once...get the oil, and simply replace it with melting ice. It will be called, the "Drill, baby, drill" solution, and it is expected that the President will point to this emergency problem, and congress will vote the rest of the money the US has in Ft. Knox to be directed to oil companies to solve the problem. Congressman Dennis Kuchinich will object.
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Yes, and he isn't a "ghost" because he was never human.
That is ad hominem garbage.
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From my dictionary "Atheist - One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods." Yet the study says 21% of atheists believe in God.
The conclusion I got from this is that 21% of atheists have absolutely no idea what atheism means, but they just call themselves atheists because they think it's cool. I'm pretty sure even on Slashdot I've read self-proclaimed atheists say they're open to the possibility of there being a god, they just don't know of any evidence for said god's existence. Anyway, not having any idea what your religion or lack thereof is really about seems to be a pretty common trait in America these days.