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Arctic Ocean Survey May Reveal Lost World

core plexus writes " A new survey of the depths of the ice-capped Arctic Ocean as reported at Reuters, BBC, and others, could reveal a lost world of living fossils and exotic new species from jellyfish to giant squid, scientists said on Thursday. They speculated that Arctic waters might hide creatures known only from fossils, such as trilobites that flourished 300 million years ago. The international scheme will include probing a 12,470-foot abyss off Canada described by project leaders as the "world's oldest sea water -- a vast, still pool unstirred for millennia, walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice." Bring on the "Jurassic Park" references."

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  1. Re:Sound Familiar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Newcomer Lynndie England in the sequel to Lynndie Does Baghdad:

    Iraqui Investigations (2004)

    featuring:

    Lynndie England as Private Plowme

    Dick "Head" Cheyney as General Boner
    Filthy towelheads as gay niggers

    DVD-Rip

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    Comments about Lynndie's performance:

    Abu Ghraib "victim" Lynndie England's defense is getting shaky. Congress just saw a bunch of photos of Private England, ass-naked, having sex with a wide assortment of unusually desperate or possibly blind GI's. Guess we can dismiss her wide-eyed "I was forced to pose" exclamations. Congress may be stupid enough to believe your superiors forced you to humiliate Iraqis. I doubt they will believe you if you claim you were ordered to pose cracking for your coworkers.

    Call me cynical, Private England, but a critical person could conceivably conclude that you're a disgusting piece of white trash with the morals of a goat in heat.

    In fact, Private England's new photos cast doubt on claims that her intentions toward the Iraqi prisoners were always hostile. The new material shows her making the beast with two backs (or in her case, the beast with one and a half brains) in front of her charges. It's starting to look like at least part of the time, this little slut was trying to entertain the prisoners. So maybe we shouldn't think of Private England as a sadist. Maybe, in her own little way, she thought of herself as a humanitarian. While the rest of the military went after the Iraqis' hearts and minds, Private England made a play for their willies.

    I really don't get it. Generally, it's not hard for women--even homely ones--to get laid. Ordinarily, they don't have to join the Army and fly to Iraq to get action. It's a simple matter of walking from your trailer to the nearest roadhouse. Or in the case of people with Private England's level of class, to your brother's bedroom.

    What a funny time we live in, when skeezes have such power over international affairs. Supposedly, the fat, vacuous Monica Lewinsky was indirectly responsible for a bombing campaign. Now a uniformed tramp threatens to take down the Secretary of Defense and give the Muslim world an excuse to unleash its poorly concealed hatred of the West.

    Neither one of these women have the brains God gave a goose, but look at their influence on the world. I suppose in a way, it's a lesson for people who say the sexual morality of public servants is irrelevant to their fitness for duty.

    This pig needs a stretch in Leavenworth, and so do the men who posed with her. And just to be safe, they should put a combination lock on her pants so she can't do for Leavenworth what she did for Abu Ghraib.

  2. Bush by thing2b · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe they will find more people like G.Bush?

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  3. Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can they help me find my spaceship? I parked it there awhile ago... darn ice came...

    It's the one that has the penguin on it..

  4. obviously by ch-chuck · · Score: 0, Troll

    this 300 million year old climate change could only have come from Halliburton's secret time machine, designed Dick Cheney for vast personal profit. All those species wiped out by corporate greed.

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  5. This Sounds Suspiciously... by Greyfox · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like the plotline to Alien vs. Predator... No don't go! It's a trap!

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  6. Re:pandora's box? by C32 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, it'll be exactly like that time a human got a virus from a fish.. Oh Wait.. That never happened.
    Moron.

  7. Memo to Sir Richard Attenborough: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's pronounced "COHsta ReeCAW" not "CawSTAH ReeCAW" Annoyed me to no end while watching that film. And I won't even start on how the Brits pronounce "Nicaraugua".

  8. Re:They will find death. by GISGEOLOGYGEEK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok dumbasses!

    How exactly is it Trolling, when I pointed out that there has been a huge amount of ecological destruction due to the bastards that ran the nuclear energy program of the former soviet union?

    huh? huh? how is that trolling!

    dumbasses!

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