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Volcanic Activity May Split Africa In Two
An anonymous reader writes 'Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two, creating a new ocean, say experts. This is due to a recent geological crack which has appeared in northeastern Ethiopia.'
The article duping activity would be enough to split Slashdot in two, creating a new site that could actualy cover the same events at almost the same time with little additional work, says any attentive reader.
This is Slashdot. Common sense is futile. You will be modded down.
It must be some some african-internet hybrid volcano, it is already splitting the article about itself in two.
Wait a million years and you will be rich, with ocean panoramas on your lands, private resorts, etc.
I'm finding a real estate agent, I think there are some good ones in Nigeria...
I must be playing too much WoW because now I'm starting to believe the upcoming expansion Cataclysm is a real even that will take place in Africa.
Yes, and it's now happened twice in 2 days, the world is falling apart, run for the hills!
Where's the United Nations when we need them?
There are no half-cookies. There are only cookies. Some are small; some are big. It's like saying there are half rocks. Divide a rock in half, u get 2 rocks. Not 2 half rocks. This is because a cookie has no anatomy as you and I would know it. It is symmetrical and the independent of scale. It applies down to a cookie of size 2 molecules. A 1 molecule cookie cannot be divided, because dividing molecule yields entirely different substances.
If I had said an "apple", that would have been different. Half apples do indeed exist.
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If so, what is the exact threshold for a [piece of] cookie to cease being a cookie and become a crumble? Is it whenever it is capable to adhere to your clothes or is it the point in which it can no longer support an entire raisin or chocolate drop?
3 pieces. Not 4. You would need 3 breaks to get 4 pieces.
Chuck Norris would get 4 pieces from 1 break, you just didn't break it hard enough.
Isn't a cookie of size 2 molecules technically known as a Crumb?
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
Why discriminate against the radially challenged?
I bet you tell all the girls that!
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It's like a car. Divide it in half and you get a Ford Pinto, not 2 half cars. This is because a car....
In 1 millon years slashdot that will finally happens and Slashdot will stop posting dupes about it.
It only seems like it failed. Then, any minute now, the earth is going to roar to life as a giant burp of magma rises from the core to underneath north america. yellowstone traps, missouri mega-earthquake, the end is nigh. If you knew geology, and lived in America, you'd be a preacher too. Doom is before us! Repent!
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I'm forty(ish) now, but I distinctly remember a social studies/geography teacher telling me about this when I was in Jr. High School. Who knew going to a California public school would be so leading edge!? ;)
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A couple of years ago, Slashdot was doing LOTS of duplicate articles and that has been cleaned up tremedously. It's kinda nice to see a dupe now and then to remind me of those heady days of 2007, ahhhh, how I miss them
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You must be a lot of fun at parties.
I think you are forgetting the field of Iced Cookies. Sliced depthwise, you have an iced half and an non-iced half. Now both could be considered cookies, but they are now of two entirely different species....evolution rears its head. It is a little known fact that Darwin considered the cookie problem early on in his work. After failing to get cookies to mate, he turned to animals that could and thus changed the course of modern biology. So, you think you are better than Darwin, mate?
There are no half-cookies. There are only cookies. Some are small; some are big.
Wow, that just became one of my favorite phrases.
I cordially invite you to come to my house and explain to my kids that half a cookie is in fact a cookie. Good luck. If you're successful, I'll even pay for your airfare.
And I've tilted at them, because I thought they were shaped like giants.
What exactly is a cookie molecule ?
It's CO2KI. A carbon atom, two oxygen atoms, one potassium, and iodine. There's an extra 'e' added to its common name in English.
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This is obviously another Crusader ploy to tear away the largely Christian southern Africa from the primarily Muslim northern Africa. We condemn this despicable act of aggression!
Nothing to see here but us trolls...move along...
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I can't believe Africa just got compared to a cookie--for an entire thread, no less.
So I have to ask now, what kind of cookie is it? And is it crisp or soft?
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