1 posted on
07/21/2006 9:00:04 AM PDT by
NYer
To: NYer
Eritrea and northeast Ethiopia, which are joined to Africa but lie on the Arabian Plate, would become marooned and would form a new island. Poor use of the term "maroon".
When Bush said that terrorists would find no safe harbor in Afghanistan, the media laughed at him -- Afghanistan being a landlocked country. But, of course, everyone knew what he meant.
I know what the journalist means. But countries don't get marooned.
2 posted on
07/21/2006 9:10:40 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
("He hits me, he cries, he runs to the court and sues me.")
To: NYer
Force of nature parts the Red Sea
Holy Moses!
3 posted on
07/21/2006 9:22:32 AM PDT by
eastsider
To: NYer
I was getting the lawnchair and the popcorn ready to take a ringside seat and watch this spectacle of nature (probably caused by Global Warming) unfold, but the million years thing is a little off-putting!!
4 posted on
07/21/2006 9:26:17 AM PDT by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: NYer
If there's any sea parting to be done Charlton Heston will do it!
To: NYer
6 posted on
07/21/2006 9:42:01 AM PDT by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: NYer
Is this some sort of sick joke from moses?
To: NYer
So if I were to buy the right plot of land-locked sand today I could have a island beachfront property in a million years?
9 posted on
07/21/2006 10:17:58 AM PDT by
rod1
To: NYer
To: NYer
"The scientists used data from the Envisat satellite to show that an 8-metre rift developed along a 37-mile (60km) stretch of the fault in just three weeks."
I remember a National Geographic special that talked about the fact that salt water was beginning to trickle into the upper end (about 20 km inland, I recall) of the Great Rift valley. One or two good quakes and the red sea could start to drain into the valley. Could happen in our lifetime.
(Good thing too, with all the water coming from the Al Gore's melting ice caps...now we have somewhere to put it! )
17 posted on
06/11/2008 10:04:33 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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Not sending a general distribution, merely adding to the keyword.
18 posted on
06/11/2008 10:06:17 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: NYer
Sometimes plates rise or sink. Continents don’t drift much with those plates in the way.
19 posted on
06/11/2008 10:06:56 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(I will veto all beers)
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