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Ocean Floor Crust Wound to Be Explored

Posted by Zonk on from the journey-to-the-top-of-the-earth dept.

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.'"

4 of 148 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Thin Crust by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It has silly.. just call 1-800-PIZZAJOE

  2. mod dowN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for the reco8d, I

  3. Re:Why hasn't CRUST formed there? by dwater · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think you'll find it evaluates to 'true'.

    I hate all this 0==false/otherwise==true crap. It makes for some really unreadable code. Is it really that much more effort to make a boolean var with a meaningful name? I expect a compiler would optimise it out easily...

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    Max.
  4. Re:Why hasn't CRUST formed there? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cry yourself to sleep on a pile of #defines asshole

    nobody cares about your opinion