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Giant Crack in Africa Will Become New Ocean
Live Science via FOX News ^
| 11/3/09
Posted on 11/03/2009 12:32:56 PM PST by Obadiah
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will eventually become a new ocean or sea, researchers now confirm.
The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005. Some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; arabia; catastrophism; giantafricancrack; giantcrack; redsea; timwright
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Interesting article. I'll resist saying anything about the giant crack coming from Africa.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:32:57 PM PST
by
Obadiah
To: Obadiah
maybe algore can park his houseboat there.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:33:59 PM PST
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Obadiah
You just did (sorry, pet peeve of mine).
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:34:18 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:35:13 PM PST
by
Obadiah
(Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
To: Obadiah
Ain’t gonna touch this one. Too easy and too easy to get banned.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:35:51 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(A trade: Conservative Anglicans for Liberal Catholics and a heretic to be named later.)
To: Obadiah
Yes, in about a million years. In the meantime, I’m looking into buying some prospective waterfront property.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:35:52 PM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: thefactor
Even he wouldn't be dumb enough to be on a sea in the middle of africa instead of Center Hill Lake
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:35:55 PM PST
by
sticker
To: Obadiah
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:36:10 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(I live in fear that one of my typos becomes a freeper catchphrase...I'm series!)
To: Obadiah
Here’s my thought about this:
Giant Crack in Africa: LA, New York City racing to find pipe to smoke it
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:37:04 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Mr. K
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:37:41 PM PST
by
jessduntno
(TOTUS fails and POtuS becomes a phuttering stuck.)
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:37:49 PM PST
by
Obadiah
(Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
To: Obadiah
It's just pet peeve, as I stated--akin to someone beginning a sentence with "It's not my place to say, but . . . ."
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:38:00 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Mr. K
“””Global Warming!!”””””
Oh thats soooo 2004. We all know its Bush’s fault.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:39:36 PM PST
by
envisio
To: Obadiah
Ummm, okay, so the birth certificate must have fell into the crack and that is why O no longer can produce it?
To: Obadiah
In Exodus (the OT) we read of the earth opening up and swallowing baddies.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:40:12 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
To: Obadiah
Hmmm.....Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:40:27 PM PST
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
To: jessduntno
Obama parts the land to provide a new water source for drought stricken Africa!
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:40:50 PM PST
by
ltc8k6
To: theDentist
If you don’t buy it now, then the bees will buy it all up when we’re a million years extinct.
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:41:22 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The right thing is not always the popular thing)
To: Obadiah
Thanks, God lets me have a good one every so often. :)
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:41:36 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Obadiah
In related news:
When Obama heard about "crack in Africa," his staff immediately scheduled a continent-wide tour for Obama...
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posted on
11/03/2009 12:42:34 PM PST
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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