Huge Canyon Discovered Under Greenland Ice

cold fjord writes with this news, straight from the BBC: "One of the biggest canyons in the world has been found beneath the ice sheet that smothers most of Greenland. The canyon — which is 800km long and up to 800m deep — was carved out by a great river more than four million years ago ... It was discovered by accident as scientists researching climate change mapped Greenland's bedrock by radar. The British Antarctic Survey said it was remarkable to find so huge a geographical feature previously unseen. The hidden valley is longer than the Grand Canyon in Arizona. ... The ice sheet, up to 3km (2 miles) thick, is now so heavy that it makes the island sag in the middle (central Greenland was previously about 500m above sea level, now it is 200m below sea level)."

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Re:All can be fixed....

[ChrisMaple]

It's astonishing how quickly opponents of capitalism and freedom contradict themselves. If goods are cheap to manufacture, The manufacturer maximizes profits by changing the selling price in a series of decrements, in each decrement making new profits by selling to people unwilling to buy at the old price. Inevitably the price falls to a small multiple of the cost of manufacture, where most people who are interested can buy. For the rich owner of the means of production to fail to do so would mean that he is too stupid to maximize his profits.

Historically, the concept of retirement for most people is a new thing, which has developed as the wealth made possible by capitalism has accumulated. Before that, people worked until they died.