[Pyro7480]

Dissolved gases in magma, like water vapor and carbon dioxide, are the driving force of explosive volcanic eruptions. The very fact that the planet erupts CO2 makes me a man-made global warming skeptic.

[wildbill]

For God's sake don't drill. Remember the Indonesian Mud Pie!

[mkjessup]

All that water in this hidden ocean is from the tears of Mother Nature, weeping, weeping I tell you, for the global warming that we thoughtless humans are causing to her planet.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Ok China !! One wrong move,, and we will pop the cork and drain you into that Ocean under ya !!

[Rodney King]

>Although they appear solid, the composition of some ocean >floor rocks is up to 15 percent water.

So in other words, the headline is misleading. It should read "large section of rock that has a fair bit of water in it has been discovered". Clearly anyone who read the first few sentences had a vision of free-flowing water sloshing around.

[Kevmo]

fascinating. bump for later reading

[RightWhale]

Some of the other threads have the map. Why is the water under east Asia and under North America and not elsewhere?

[xcamel]

See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792228/posts
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[Fierce Allegiance]

researchers estimate that up to 0.1 percent of the rock sinking down into the Earth’s mantle in that part of the world is water,

That wouldn't even be considered a damp rock if it were on the surface. Air has more water than that.

[xJones]

Stop plate tectonics!

Now if we can only get Hollywood crowd involved in that noble effort, maybe they'll shut up for a while

[GreyFriar]

And if this water gets to the surface of Asia the sea levels will rise dozens of feet as Asia sinks because the water is no long holding up the land.

[DouglasKC]

Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Gen 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Amazing that the bible recorded this information long before scientists discovered it.