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Scientists: Fissure Could Become New Ocean (Ethiopia)
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| Sat Dec 10,12:45 AM ET
| By ANTHONY MITCHELL
Posted on 12/10/2005 3:36:33 PM PST by Esther Ruth
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To: Jeff Chandler
I'm buying beachfront property now!!!
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posted on
12/10/2005 4:31:05 PM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
To: Esther Ruth
Now, wouldn't a new ocean cause the earth's weather patterns to change?
Where are the global-warming or global-cooling alarmists when you need them? Isn't it time that they started getting the UN and all countries together to try to do somethng about this new ocean? Maybe the world can get together and start filling in the new fault with dirt; and continue doing it for a million years.
This world and it's weather and it's volcanoes and it's earthquakes are too unpredictable and somebody needs to do something about it.
What about it, you greenies?
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posted on
12/10/2005 4:34:20 PM PST
by
adorno
To: Esther Ruth
...the U.S. have been observing the 37-mile long fissure since it split open in September in the Afar desert and estimate it will take a million years to fully form into an ocean...The scientists plan to set up an observatory to watch the split and see how it develops.
I wonder who will pay for this observatory? Trying to imagine funding multiplied by a million years boggles the mind.
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posted on
12/10/2005 5:06:43 PM PST
by
kalee
To: joshhiggins
800,000 inch = 12.6 miles
To: mnehrling
LOL! We have a winner! I'm singing along:
"Bush's Bush's Bush's Bush's fault fault"
"Bush's Bush's Bush's Bush's fault fault"
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
800,000 inch = 12.6 milesThanks for finishing my math. 12.6 miles doesn't quite impress me as an Ocean, but then I'm not a scientist seeking money for a private retreat observatory.
To: Jeff Chandler
Don't, um, hold your breath...
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posted on
12/10/2005 6:42:34 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(What'ya mean you formatted the cat!?)
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
800,000 inch = 12.6 miles Which is wide enough to allow sleeong lota as "ocean-front property"
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posted on
12/10/2005 7:47:25 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
( the Wedge Document ... offers a message of hope for Muslims - Mustafa Akyol)
To: mnehrling
Yep! It's Bush's fault. And he's just doing it
1) to make more black people homeless like he did in NO, and
2) to find more oil for Cheney and Haliburton in the new ocean floor.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:40:42 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Do not trust Democrats with national security!)
To: joshhiggins
Let's see, 0.8 inches a year times a million years equals an 800,000 inch wide ocean. Sounds pretty impressive. 12.6 miles is just such a huge ocean.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:44:06 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
((Aubrey, Tx) --- America, we get the best government corporations can buy.)
To: Esther Ruth
Good news.
Now, when the oceans rise from the melting icecaps spawned by Global Warming the water will have someplace to go.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:49:01 AM PST
by
StoneGiant
(Power without morality is disaster. Morality without power is useless.)
To: Centurion2000
OK..I am no math major here but something isn't computing here.
They say the Fissure opened in September and is now 13 feet wide. Then they say that the desert is separating at a rate of 0.8 inches a year.
Where I was raised , 13 feet in 2 months is a hell of a lot quicker than 0.8 INCHES a year.
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:52:42 AM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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posted on
07/20/2006 10:30:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Esther Ruth
Guess I'll have to look at this from Afar.
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posted on
07/20/2006 10:33:45 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
To: commish
Where I was raised , 13 feet in 2 months is a hell of a lot quicker than 0.8 INCHES a year.
You have to understand the science involved:
13 feet = 4m (meters)
0.8 inches = 2cm (centimeters)
4m/2 months = 2cm/year, for extremely small years
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posted on
07/21/2006 12:45:49 AM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: commish
OK..I am no math major here but something isn't computing here. They say the Fissure opened in September and is now 13 feet wide. Then they say that the desert is separating at a rate of 0.8 inches a year. It is easy: the fissure is opening faster than the desert is spreading. This does not seem to make much sense if you think about it in two dimensions, but if there is any uplift or subsidence at the same time (and there is) you would expect the fissure to be opening much faster than the desert is separating. Simple trigonometry.
It is the opposite effect of how very small amounts of thermal expansion on bridges and similar can cause massive vertical buckling. Over a long enough distance, an inch of expansion or contraction in the plane will cause many feet of displacement if focused at one point.
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posted on
07/21/2006 12:58:51 AM PDT
by
tortoise
Not sending a general distribution, merely updating.
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posted on
06/11/2008 10:06:38 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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