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Ocean Floor Crust Wound to Be Explored
eldavojohn writes "A group of scientists are disembarking right now to study an open gash in the ocean floor where earth's mantle lays exposed without any crust covering it. The scientists describe this as the result of the mantle moving too quickly for the crust to keep up. Either that, or the mantle was never covered by the crust and just has always been like this. From the article, 'Regardless of how they formed, the exposed mantle provides scientists with a rare opportunity to study the Earth's rocky innards. Many attempts to drill deep into the planet barely get past the crust.'"
Nothing like a nice, wet, open gash down below to explore!
I wonder what they'll find? Might be too deep for the little man in the boat.
Wake me when they get to the creamy nougat center.
If you tamper with the anti-crust, you will get burned.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
You don't want to hear his analogy for a volcano - it involves a donkey and a chambermaid.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Please do not anthropomorphize our planet. He really hates that.
They are embarking, not disembarking...
So we're letting dogs sniff our crack, eh?
Table-ized A.I.
It's global warming!
Someone is going to use this as evidence of humans causing global warming in 5...4...3...2...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
and, ofcourse, a bunch of nerds are gonna go stare at it.
I mean, the last time I was invited to inspect an open wound in someone's gash, I ran.
I spend most of my time in bed, darling.
They'll just run away in fear like the commies did :P
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
There is an inflated boat here.
The magic boat contains:
A tan label.
>get tan label
Taken.
>read label
!!!! FROBOZZ MAGIC BOAT COMPANY !!!!
Hello, sailor!
Instructions for use:
To get into the boat, say 'BOARD'
To leave the boat, say 'DISEMBARK'
To get into a body of water, say 'LAUNCH'
To get to shore, say 'LAND'
Warranty:
This boat is guaranteed against all defects in parts and
workmanship for a period of 76 milliseconds from date of purchase
or until first used, whichever comes first.
Warning: This boat is made of plastic.
Good luck!
I think it means science by press release is usually poor.
"It makes for some really unreadable code. Is it really that much more effort to make a boolean var with a meaningful name?"
#define _SARCASM (~0)
#include "sarcasm.h"
boolean it_is_called_code_for_a_reason = true;
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.