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Nearly Naked: Large Swarth Of Pacific Lacks Seafloor Sediment
Science News ^
| 10-14-2006
| Sid Perkins
Posted on 10/15/2006 6:09:44 PM PDT by blam
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The orange box sure illustrates how big the Mediterranean isn't.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:09:45 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Truly interesting.
However.....someone's bound to say it, so.......
Bush's fault!
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:15:31 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
To: blam
Is it X-rated, or only R?
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:18:13 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: blam
Someone will find a way to construe this as evidence that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:18:40 PM PDT
by
Physicist
To: blam
Since the world was in the grips of a Ice age 18,000 years ago with 2 mile thick glaciers where New York City is today, I can see a huge iceberg from antarctica scraping the sea floor clean.
Either that or it I second Bush's fault.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:21:27 PM PDT
by
UNGN
(I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
To: blam
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:22:14 PM PDT
by
flipper999
(vote early, vote often, vote republican even if it hurts.)
To: Cicero
>>>Is it X-rated, or only R?
I'm sure someone will call it 'art' and get a huge grant for it.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:23:24 PM PDT
by
teacherwoes
("It's not those who vote who are important; it's those who count the votes"- Josef Stalin)
To: blam
Well from my experiences sailing the seas on a submarine, the size of an area in the ocean is just a number. There really isn't any way to get an understanding of scale. Something that you might consider a tiny area in the Pacific Ocean could easily be many times the size of Texas.
All that you can really do is say how long it will take you to cross a stretch of ocean. No other comparisons were ever very useful for me. While it may make sense to say that the Mediterranean is small compared to the Pacific Ocean, it has an area of 965,000 square miles (about 4 times the size of Texas or 7 times the size of Montana). It is only small by comparison to something ridiculously large.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:23:48 PM PDT
by
burzum
(Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
To: Physicist
"Someone will find a way to construe this as evidence that the Earth is only a few thousand years old." No construing necessary: they will cite any condition and declare that it proves something. Pure non sequitur.
To: blam
Surely there must be some way to blame this on global warming.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:28:57 PM PDT
by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
To: flipper999
Now if the D's take control of congress we will have to have another govt program to put sediment there.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:29:22 PM PDT
by
Busywhiskers
(Democrats delinda est.)
To: blam
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:30:34 PM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
()...Hey Libs........NO FITZMAS FOR YOU.....()
To: blam
Naked... Where are the pictures???
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:30:38 PM PDT
by
Syntyr
(Food for the NSA Line Eater -> "terrorist" "bomb" "plot" "kill" "overthrow" "coup de tas")
To: flipper999
Bush's fault!I am blaming John Howard on this one.
How long has the ocean floor been bare and when did he know about it ?
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:31:27 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(FREE KARASTAN !)
To: blam
Offshore drilling will not be coming to this chunk of the planet anytime soon.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:32:29 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: blam
I blame Foley, Abramoff, and of course, The Jews....that last one was for Moveon.org and FU, I mean, DU.
To: blam
Oh ya' well here....dang
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:33:15 PM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
()...Hey Libs........NO FITZMAS FOR YOU.....()
To: Xenalyte; Cicero; xsmommy; Gabz
X-rayed (er, rated) nekkid see ping.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:34:53 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: blam
All I know is....
If there's lot's of sediment, they'll this shows evidence of evolution.
If there's some sediment, they'll say this shows evidence of evolution.
It there's no sediment, they'll say this shows evidence of evolution.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:34:54 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Coach Hastert: Good news! Your insurance DOES cover spine implants.)
To: blam
So scientists have finally discovered areas of ocean floor almost devoid of sediment and they are surprised? Tsk! Tsk!
From the dawn of creation, there has been similar areas on dry land. They are known as deserts. Who in their right mind would ever have doubted that similar areas are present on the ocean floor?
That there are deserts of the deep comes as no surprise to thinking people.
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posted on
10/15/2006 6:40:31 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
( I predict a victory for Republicans that will make Dims remember 1994 as the good old' days.)
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