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New Ocean being Formed in Africa
PenguinRadio writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting on a 37-mile long fissure that split open in September in the Afar desert in Ethiopia that could be the start of a new ocean forming. The fissure, which grew 8 meters wide in 3 weeks following an earthquake on Sept 14, is now splitting at about 0.8 inches per year, would eventually lead to Ethiopia eastern portions becoming an island in a million years or so. The findings were presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting taking place in San Francisco this week. The BBC reports that formation of a ocean basin is the first step toward developing an ocean, but that it will be millions of years before that could occur."
This mod either has it in for silverspurG or has absolutely NO sense of humor. Either way, this is not a troll.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Wow, 2x +5 funny for a dup comment, in the same thread no less. You are the matrix!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
HA HA HA :) Not BETTER Karma, WORSE Karma. I left over 25 hundred comments on this site over the last 5 years, I know better than that :) People mod you as Troll, you lose carma, people mod you as Funny you don't game Karma.
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All of my 10 last comments were modded Troll at least 30 times by now, and they were modded as Funny or Insightful at least as many times. If you think this is about Karma, you DIDN'T read both of my comments. The second one is BETTER humour than the other, because it doesn't mention Kansas in the very first sentence
I'll take my -2 Redundant on the first one, and +5 Funny on the second one any day but Trolls - they are not.
You can't handle the truth.
Well, if /. can get away with posting dupe stories time after time after time, why shouldn't the commentators be allowed the same? :)
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If you look close though, you will notice that I was aiming at Mods noticing this and modding the first post as Redundant and the second as Funny, because second IS Funnier than the first. Instead the mods are fighting with Troll/Funny tags
You can't handle the truth.
No, I would not like to propose a more tangible and accurate estimate. That's my point. They are providing an estimate that has no degree of accuracy, which is to say that they are pulling numbers out of thin air. People pull numbers out of thin air all the time. You're just making stuff up as well. You haven't talked to these people, so you don't know.
The scientific community never waits. If they did, it might be an improvement. When given the choice between waiting and making stuff up, they are perfectly capable of making stuff up. Usually the choices are much more varied, though. On the other hand, when they do make stuff up it is usually for cannon-fodder to feed the common man and not in journals. They do this to impress the common man into thinking how fabulous they are, thus feeding their egos. I take ADD meds and Quetiapine, the latter ostensibly for anxiety disorder. I have increased anxiety or frustration due to difficulties caused by the ADD, but when my therapist tells the Psychologist that I appear more anxious, does he talk to me about it and treat the ADD better? No he goes off in his own make-believe land and decides to up the Quetiapine without input from me.