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| Cat1981(England) |
 Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject: “A window into the Earth’s interior” |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Well mend it dear 'enry dear 'enry..
Nice one, I think it'll be all that Nuke waste we dump at sea, a sort of 'Mid Alantic Meltdown!' |
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| Jellyologist |
| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Megabrain wrote: |
Well mend it dear 'enry dear 'enry..
Nice one, I think it'll be all that Nuke waste we dump at sea, a sort of 'Mid Alantic Meltdown!' |
Ha! Ha! 
In the article
"Using the craft’s cameras, the researchers hope to be able to see the hole, which Dr MacLeod described as “a window into the Earth’s interior”.
Hmm? not really. First there is no 'hole' but an absence of crust and as for 'seeing' that's a pretty loose metaphore. More like scratching a soft mortar joint with a pin on a brick on the the outside of the Great Wall of China than seeing anything much in the interior of China. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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STOP PRESS!
There's a great big hole in the Atlantic Ocean - Scientists are looking into it..  |
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| Nevyn |
| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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yeh, i know what it is, the scientists got lost and and are now looking in Tony Blairs head "It appears to be very BIG and very EMPTY" commented one scientist
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| Jellyologist |
| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Megabrain wrote: |
STOP PRESS!
There's a great big hole in the Atlantic Ocean - Scientists are looking into it.. |
When we were kids, before colour TV, we believed that if you squinted 'just right' you'd see colour. The crazy part is when I was 7 years old, I remember it working. I'm sure some jounalists can be fed the Jules Verne line and never realize they're eating baloney. |
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| Jellyologist |
| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Nevyn wrote: |
| yeh, i know what it is, the scientists got lost and and are now looking in Tony Blairs head "It appears to be very BIG and very EMPTY" commented one scientist |
Depends on the scale. You'd have to get the equivalent of one of those Gallactic scales that starts:
"if the Earth is the size of a pea and the sun is a baketball a red giant is the size of....."
"if the hole in Blair's seems big and empty...think of it the size of a pea and the hole in Rumsfeld's head the size of a basketball but compared to the hole in George W. Bush's head think of the Empire State Bui ...."  |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| SO back on topic, is this gonna be a 'one off' a large wound that never healed? as far as I know the 'crust' is the solid bit, the land and sea floor, to suggest the crust is 'missing' to me conjures the thought that the seabed is resting on near molten rock. I reckon it's just a part of the crust that's made of 'mantle' material. |
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