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Jordan to refill shrinking Dead Sea with salt water
The Telegraph ^
| 10/10/2009
| Richard Spencer in Amman
Posted on 10/10/2009 10:37:33 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
The Dead Sea is dying?
Nothing can live in that water, can it?
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posted on
10/10/2009 10:47:07 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: smokingfrog
Then where did this come from??...
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posted on
10/10/2009 10:51:17 PM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(AL GORE BETRAYED OUR PLANET - HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!!!)
To: smokingfrog
I think only bacteria, and unicellular organisms can live in it.
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posted on
10/10/2009 10:54:02 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: Berlin_Freeper
I just asked Jesus to smack you down for that picture.
Now, I'm going to gouge out my eyes.
/johnny
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posted on
10/10/2009 10:54:08 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: LukeL
I think only bacteria, and unicellular organisms can live in it. Which one is Helen Thomas?
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posted on
10/10/2009 10:56:25 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: Berlin_Freeper
And why the hell does she need a badge. Everyone without gouged out eyes knows who she is, since 1432. She IS her personal ID. And it's disturbing.
/johnny
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posted on
10/10/2009 10:58:44 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:02:23 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Salty. Now we need popcorn. As a non-human, picture posting intellect, I'm sure you can oblige.
/johnny
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:06:07 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: bruinbirdman
“Better Dead than Red” out of the Jordanians?
Wonder how rapid the influx of water might be. That could prompt geological concerns.
To: bruinbirdman
The cause of the depletion of the Dead Sea is the diversion of water upstream in the Jordan River for irrigation.
If they took the tailwater from the irrigation projects and put it into the Dead Sea, it would likely be as saline as anything they’re going to get from a de-sal plant. One of the things common to deserts is a high salt content of the soils; irrigate it enough to push the salts down below the root zone and any runoff from irrigation through drain tile is salty as all getout.
A great example is seen here in the US in the Imperial Valley, CA and downstream at the Salton Sea.
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:22:31 PM PDT
by
NVDave
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:31:05 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: RegulatorCountry; JoeProBono; bruinbirdman
Check out the mountain in the background. You can count at least six or more beach lines. (Horizontal lines in the side of the mountain caused by wave action. This tells you that the Dead Sea had various periods of depth over time.)
The Salton Sea in Southern California has the similar record carved in the surrounding mountains. Adding water to the Dead Sea has happened many times in the past. This time it will be caused by man and not Mother Nature.
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:34:38 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
To: bruinbirdman
To: JoeProBono
You aren't helping my 'maybe it is human' line of thought. ;)
On the third hand, you are picture perfect, and I'll ask one more favor on Christmas day.
/johnny
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:38:14 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: TaMoDee
I was thinking more of pressure along a fault, than erosion.
To: bruinbirdman
Enviros are hypocrites. They will tell you that nature needs to take it's course and that humans interfere in the "natural order" of things. Yet, when something is dying or going extinct they immediately want to jump in and artificially keep it going. This is a prime example. If this inland "sea" with no fresh water input is drying up then it should just be allowed to dry up. They will have their equivalence of the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Oceans come and Oceans go, lakes form and then disappear, animals appear and then become extinct, regardless of the reason it is still the "natural order" of things except to an environmentalist it means they need to stick their noses in and impose regulations on everything in sight.
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:45:22 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: JRandomFreeper
Don’t talk to the script.
It just makes you look crazy : )
Also, don’t taunt it, it may flood us into oblivion. j/k
To: happinesswithoutpeace; JoeProBono
It's polite and reasonable. I expect it will give me a great Christmas graphic this year. How easy will that be?
Trust the non-human intellects, regardless of when they come from.
/johnny
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:55:19 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
It just makes you look crazy : )I'm ok with that. I'll do authentic frontier gibberish, if you'll get a paying crowd together. Dag nab it.
/johnny
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posted on
10/10/2009 11:57:03 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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