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Huge Reservoir Discovered Beneath Asia

Posted by samzenpus on from the city-of-R'lyeh dept.

anthemaniac writes "Seismic observations reveal a huge reservoir of water in Earth's mantle beneath Asia. It's actually rock saturated with water, but it's an ocean's worth of water ... as much as is in the whole Arctic Ocean. How did it get there? A slab of water-laden crust sank, and the water evaporated out when it was heated, and then it was trapped, the thinking goes. The discovery fits neatly with the region's heavy seismic activity and fits neatly with the idea that the planet's moving crustal plates are lubricated with water."

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  1. So THAT's where all the water went by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... after Noah's Flood! This proves the existence of God! Suck it, James Cameron!!!12!!

    1. Re:So THAT's where all the water went by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

      These are certainly interesting times. The Arabs had "our" oil, and now it turns out the Chinese have "our" water in their mantle. Expect to see a lot of cheap knock-off water hitting the market soon.

      in order to really prove that there was a global flood, you would need to produce the Mexicans that built the Arc

      I thought the Ark maintenance guys had decided by Genesis 8:20 that the whole thing was made in China, and not a Noah original with Mexican hired laborers. It carried two of every shipping container, one for the male and one for the female of each species, plus piles of inexpensive cheap shirts, sweaters, pants, ties, coffee mugs, pillows, socks, cordless drills, cheap carbon-zinc batteries, and phones, all wrapped in those annoying plastic bags. You know how to spot an Ark that's a cheap Chinese knockoff? When the Ark is empty it displaces more water than a genuine Noah's Ark. Also, the termites and the woodpeckers can tell you. God made them so they just know.

      As to proving the existence of a god, in whatever form you want, that's an exercise best left to the reader.

      If there were no God, someone would surely manufacture a convincing knock-off of Him.

  2. be like the Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    the planet's moving crustal plates are lubricated with water.



    Be like the Earth: use water-based lubricants, kids.

  3. dammit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There goes my astroglide tectonics theory! Back to the drawing board...

  4. I get the same thing once in a while.... by blankoboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    but a tall glass of Prune juice always gets that trapped "slab of water-laden crust" out just fine.

  5. Water based lubricants versus oil based lubricants by andy314159pi · · Score: 4, Funny

    planet's moving crustal plates are lubricated with water.
    The planet's crusts used to lubricate with oil based lubricants until it got the memo to switch to water based lubricants.
  6. It's not fair! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    First they got all the tea in China and now they got all the water too?
    It's not fair!

  7. Sorry by encoderer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry.. That's a string bet. This isn't the wild west. You must make your wager in one continuous play.

  8. Re:So THAT's where the flood water CAME FROM by Phroggy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."
    Proverbs 31:6-7 (NIV)

    I defy anyone to find a better passage to take out of context.

    --
    $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
    $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;