[uncommonsense]

"Seafloor ridges are made up of sections, each of which can be hundreds of miles long. Because of this study, we now know that each one of those segments can tear open in a just a few days."

Hmmmmmm.... Maybe it doesn't take 50 billion years for significant geological events to manifest?

Seems like great news for Ethiopia. Their drought problems will abate.

[mnehring]

Seems like great news for Ethiopia. Their drought problems will abate.

...after about a thousand years to recover from the massive seismic and thermal events that happen if this tear happens suddenly.

[Frenchtown Dan]

“Seems like great news for Ethiopia. Their drought problems will abate.”

Not directly, since it will most likley be salt water, but evaporation could create rain that might benefit an even larger region.

Anyway, still a long time to come.