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Danish Research Center To Explore Mysteries of Earth's Interior

Posted by samzenpus on from the jules-verne-approved dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The DanSeis Centre at the University of Copenhagen has just received a grant of more than €3 million from the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education to investigate and tackle one of geoscience's great mysteries: do mantle plumes, hypothetically buoyant regions of heated mantle material rising towards the earth's surface, actually exist?"

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  1. Great News by guttentag · · Score: 4, Funny

    I will be watching this closely, as I have often wondered what on Earth is at the center of a Danish.

  2. Re:Foregone conclusion.... by philip.paradis · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the planet is consuming too many plum filled danishes, I can certainly understand hot bubbles of materials rising up.

    Oh, sorry, you said "plume," not "plum." Never mind. Also, for anyone who thought of hot grits and/or Natalie Portman while reading the above, you've got issues bro.

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  3. Danish by Plammox · · Score: 2, Funny

    The horrible abominations you call Danish pastry over in the US, I wouldn't even feed to the pigs. I wouldn't mind my nationality being associated with a custard-filled fatty pastry, if only it was a delicious custard-filled fatty pastry. For heaven's sake, turn them into bio fuel or something, because they certainly aren't suitable for human consumption.

    Same goes for your coffee, by the way. :-)