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Malta's Famous 'Azure Window' Has Collapsed Into The Sea
Digg ^ | 03/08/2017

Posted on 03/09/2017 7:45:32 AM PST by BenLurkin

Even if you didn't know it was called the "Azure Window" and didn't know it was located on Malta, an island nation in the Mediterranean, you probably recognize pictures of the famous rock formation, a stunning land bridge connecting the island to a massive rock jutting out of the sea

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While stunning, the collapse does not come as a complete surprise. Formed by erosion, the Window was eventually destined to be destroyed by erosion:

The same waves which carved the window out of the living rock continues to eat away at the structure and threatens to one day cause the slim bridge to collapse. And although the risk does not appear to be imminent, no one can predict with any degree of accuracy when such a collapse will take place.

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1 posted on 03/09/2017 7:45:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I read about this earlier. Mother nature marches on.


2 posted on 03/09/2017 7:48:00 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

And she didn’t even take off work yesterday.


3 posted on 03/09/2017 7:51:03 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: BenLurkin

Wow. Not only did the arch/bridge collapse but the whole rock it linked to is gone.

I think there are about 4 million pictures so we can remember it.


4 posted on 03/09/2017 7:51:57 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: BenLurkin

Trumps fault.


5 posted on 03/09/2017 7:52:43 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Beat me to it.


6 posted on 03/09/2017 7:53:21 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: BenLurkin

7 posted on 03/09/2017 7:54:47 AM PST by blam
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To: A CA Guy

Man made global warming, that’s the ticket!


8 posted on 03/09/2017 7:56:31 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: A CA Guy

You can be they’ll blame it on Global Warming.


9 posted on 03/09/2017 7:56:50 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

s/b You can bet....


10 posted on 03/09/2017 7:57:04 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Mastador1

I think a Kennedy groped it.


11 posted on 03/09/2017 7:57:23 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks Ben. Just sent it to my parish priest who is from Malta.


12 posted on 03/09/2017 7:58:18 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: dfwgator

Of course, because in the history of earth this has “never” happened before.


13 posted on 03/09/2017 7:58:46 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: blam

Wow!


14 posted on 03/09/2017 7:59:44 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Time and tide wait for no man


15 posted on 03/09/2017 7:59:44 AM PST by taxcontrol
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To: Mastador1

The storms in that part of the Med have always been intense. Just ask St Paul.


16 posted on 03/09/2017 8:00:42 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: taxcontrol

If the rock has also collapsed, it may be that the fallen rock mass pulled the bridge down.


17 posted on 03/09/2017 8:00:54 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: BenLurkin

Han Wavel -

An exotic holiday planet, Han Wavel is one of the wonders of the Galaxy, a world of fabulous ultra-luxury hotels and casinos, all of which have been formed by the natural erosion of wind and rain. However geophysicists, probability statisticians, meteoranalysts or bizzarrologists who are keen to research this curious effect cannot afford to stay there to find how this “infinity to one against” situation came about.

-Life, the Universe and Everything.


18 posted on 03/09/2017 8:04:42 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: blam

no way I’d have walked out on that formation even if calm sea.


19 posted on 03/09/2017 8:05:53 AM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

No. The bridge is still there. Only the rock fell.


20 posted on 03/09/2017 8:09:00 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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