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Posted on 02/24/2009 4:56:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if the mass of Antarctica is more land than ice, doesn't that mean the mass of ice is less than previously thought?
the vast ice sheet that will raise world sea levels if even a fraction of it melts,
They announce the discovery of less ice, and use that discovery to panic people about melting ice?
Grr. (not you.)
Thanks for the ping. There is some dingbat on every tv channel.
My pleasure.
Yeah, weird, ain’t it? One might even say, unscientific. Or bunkum. Or hokum.
Whoops! Thanks BBell!
Phew.
I was starting to think it was just me.
:-)
LOL!
Thanks!
Do you know how great it is to not have TeeVee?
It's great.
On a night like tonight, instead of being bothered by The Grifting Geek and his Department of the Media minions & lackeys, I can pop in a Duke movie, and relax in blissful comfort.
Does it match the Piri Reis map?
Good question.
Geologists have discovered the remains of three ancient deciduous Antarctic forests, complete with fossils of fallen leaves scattered around the tree trunks.
The clusters of petrified tree stumps were found upright in the original living positions they held during the Permian period.
Some stumps were even poking through the snowfield in the Beardmore Glacier area, said U.S. geologist Professor Molly Miller of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
"These were not scrubby little things," Miller said. "These were big trees."
Some are estimated to be as tall as 24.6 meters, based on their trunk diameter.
Deciduous forests in Antarctica shed their leaves at the end of summer, triggered by a change of light rather than a drop in temperature (Image: iStockphoto)
Wrong. The trees grew there just as european trees grow. They shed their leaves in winter.
fossil tree trunk.
How leaves became fossilized intact is a great unknown IMO. And no one will convince me the trees are all extinct; this one is a eucalypt.
Frozen sand dunes. Puzzling.
Queen Maud Land.
I am constantly amazed how a medium that should be able to offer so much offers so little.
McLintock has got to be one of my most favoritest movies.
Exactly what do you pop your movie into?
I’m hoping this global warming thing happens really fast. I want to know more about the people living in Antarctica before it got covered with all that ice.
So do I! I often look at this image of petrolglyphs discovered in Tasmania, attributed to Tasmanian aboriginals, it looks nothing like ANY aboriginal art I have ever seen:
I believe the Antarctic Continent - if we are ever able to completely explore, will have a profound influence on mankind's history.
Haven't looked at the broadcast channel in 4 or 5 months.
Yes, and I think there are mysteries in South America that will change the scale, too.
I’m looking at your pic of those petroglyphs, and for some reason I get this chill like Dan Rather is looking over my shoulder. Weird.
Frozen tidal wave?
More like frozen on or below the surface and then thrust up and eroded. - If I had to guess.
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