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Oregon Is Growing A Mystery Bulge

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the state-on-a-hot-tin-lake dept.

nedwolf writes "LiveScience is reporting that a 100 square mile bulge has been rising in Oregon. First observed from a satellite using a relatively new technology called 'radar interferometry', some believe this to be the formation of a new volcano. I think it's just happy to see me."

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  1. Really? by sdirrim · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is it really abnormal? Or is it just another as-yet-unheard-of natural phenomena? Or is it just another glitch in computers running Micro$oft crap?

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  2. Re:A bulge? by srussell · · Score: 0, Troll
    But I thought America's wang was Florida.
    No, it just has one for a governor.

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  3. Re:A bulge? by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 0, Troll

    Unless it's vacationing on its ranch in Texas, that is.

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  4. Re:Mr. President, Dr. Evil is on the line... by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: 0, Troll

    I enjoy reading /. at -1. It's funnier that way.

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  5. Old news by Mr.+Firewall · · Score: 0, Troll

    This was news two years ago. It isn't news now.

    At the time the Portland (read: ignorant city people) TV stations were saying, "The South Sister is getting ready to blow! Details at 11 pm."

    But no, it isn't getting ready to erupt. Well, MAYBE... sometime in the next 100 years... IF the pool of magma keeps moving...

    And no, we can't tap it for geothermal energy. It's in a Wilderness area, and no matter how much the Environmentalist Wackos scream about their glo-bull warming myth, there's no way they're going to allow a geothermal plant in a Wilderness area.

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  6. Glo-bull Warming by Mr.+Firewall · · Score: 0, Troll

    The myth isn't whether the Earth is warming. There IS a slight (very slight) warming ever since the Little Ice Age ended a hundred or so years ago. No responsible climatologist disputes that.

    It's the rest of the environmentalist mythmaking that is causing serious havoc in our nation & world: That the warming is human-caused, that it will continue increasing for a century or more, and that it will have devastating effects on Earth's ecosystems and climates.

    A lie, no matter how often repeated, no matter how popularly it is believed, is still a lie. The FACTS remain that THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS that the recent short-term temperature fluctuations are human-caused, and history shows that there are no devastating effects from global warming.

    Indeed, if the 200-year-long Medieval Warming Period of a thousand years ago (when global temperatures rose a little bit higher than is forcasted for our time) is any indication -- and it is -- then we are in for a period of peace, social progress, and calmer weather. Check your history books: there were some significant advances in human culture during that time, and none of the global catastophes that are being predicted by the left-wing doomsayers ever happened.

    That's why I'm not a Leftist any more. Lies are all they have to offer -- in any debate in which they engage.

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