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Posted by: charbarred 2 years, 9 months agoScientists are to sail to the mid-Atlantic to examine a massive "open wound" on the Earth's surface.
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Taganan
March 1, 2007, 9:52 a.m.Interesting. What does it mean? Just another natural thing occuring that we have just discovered.
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the2thdoctor
March 1, 2007, 10:39 a.m.Scientists probe hole in earth and get a headline...hmmmph
I probe hole in my wife and get no recognition by the media.
What the hell is wrong with this world????
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cleare
March 1, 2007, 12:10 p.m.good one hmac!
i'm confused. if the mantle isn't there, what's holding in the guts?
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Webreader
March 1, 2007, 12:47 p.m.Cleare, gravity is "holding in the guts" but I would think that something has replaced the "crust" or all that water would be pouring in, powered by that same gravity, to the Earth's insides, and we would notice it. (Maybe that is where all those ships, planes etc. have disappeared to in the "Bermuda Triangle" disasters - lol}
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braveone
March 1, 2007, 12:59 p.m.OH NO...
not plate tectonics!!!
how'd GW BUSH cause that???
send grant money, we'll study it...
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edromar2
March 1, 2007, 1:09 p.m.Webreader
Close, but no cigar. There is a section of the mid-Atlantic ridge, just to the east (and probably north (since they gave no graphics about this, its hard to be certain, where a massive flood buried a great civilization about 10 to 12K BCE, when the ocean level rose about 600 feet.
The absence of the mantle at this place could explain what started the chain reaction of earthquakes that broke down the land bridges that had been holding back the Great Arctic Ocean that had risen from the melting of the ice.
A major strike by a very large comet at that place that destroyed the mantle could explain the total devastation of what we call Atlantis.
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edromar2
March 1, 2007, 1:14 p.m.Webreader
Oh, and while the substance below the crust, the mantle is exposed and held down by gravity, water is in no danger of flowing down into that giant scar because water has less mass (is less attracted by gravity) than are the substances such as serpentinite and other materials in the mantle.
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B1BLancer
March 1, 2007, 11:55 p.m.Didn't you hear? Algore invented holes in the ocean floor right after he invented the Internet.
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Bobcat6
March 1, 2007, 2:01 p.m.What's wrong here? No one's blaming Bush. I don't hear any nazi liberal loons crying out for impeachment for trying to use Gore's head as an oil drill.
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ontherock
March 1, 2007, 2:10 p.m.I was going to say- I don't know what it is or how it got there but it MUST be Bush's fault!!!
But I've been duped again!!!
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normallysilent
March 1, 2007, 2:29 p.m.If there is no mantle in this area now and there is now this big hole in the bottom of the ocean then the ocean now holds more water than when the figures were done estimating just what is going to be flooded when all the ice melts due to global warming. Right?
I knew it would work out all right.
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Tango57
March 1, 2007, 4:11 p.m.Very interesting. I wonder if it has anything to do with the diminishing magnetic fields? Hopefully, "geographer" will stop in and enlighten all of us.
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DannyGrrl
March 2, 2007, 1:16 a.m.Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear about your mother. Should I blog about her?
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MeanMotherUSA
March 1, 2007, 5:28 p.m.3-11-07
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chiefss
March 1, 2007, 7 p.m.I think Mr Yesitrue better get himself a book on Mineralogy or Petrology. It is called SERPENTINITE and it is in the Greenschist Facies and is a Metamorphic rock usually formed when oceanic crust which has a lot of water in it is subducted under continental crust and is subjected to high heat and pressure. There is a great formation of it just outside Leavenworth, Washington. A whole cliff where you can see it from the road. I have a fair supply of it in my yard that I got on a U of W field trip. The Olympic mountains have tons of it as they were formed from the subduction of the pacific plate under the North American plate.
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slate
March 1, 2007, 7:52 p.m.I love the way they describe it as a Wound,,,, that way they can make a few programs that will crunch number that will point toward it being because I drive a truck.
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bill-smith
March 2, 2007, 12:46 a.m.I guess any inteligent discussion of anything on Netscape has become next to impossible. Read the responses above - this is what is killing Netscape. Bad jokes and even worse manners are all this forum seems to have to offer anymore.
What a shame. What a crying f'ing shame.
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Fuud4thaught
March 2, 2007, 5:15 a.m.What if like us humans, and George Bush too, this planet, this "Living Earth" as we call our mother, is much like a balloon, and what we refer to as plate techtonics is simply the balloon expanding as the orb grows bigger. For fun look at an Atlas, the puzzle pieces kinda fit, and to boot, as our bodies create oil for our skin to protect it from the sun and other elements, why wouldn't our "Living" mother Earth do the same for herself? HooookerDooooker!
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