Nov 3 2009Giant Crack In Africa Could Be Future Ocean
Because I love news heralding the end of the world as much as you do, I just read a large crack has recently formed in Ethiopia and may house a future ocean after the apocalypse of 2012.
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.
The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a sea is in the region's future.
Note: That's not an actual photo of the crack there, that's just a picture I ripped off the internet. However, I will use this time to propose that the Grand Canyon will also house a future ocean. I called it first! Unless it doesn't happen, in which case it was your idea. Idiot.
Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean [yahoonews]
Thanks to Josh, who's smart enough to know the oceans were created when God cried after realizing just how beautiful he'd made me.
Reader Comments
1. rad to the power of me - November 3, 2009 4:08 PM
I'm [email protected][email protected]!
and Earth Fart!
2. david s - November 3, 2009 4:17 PM
sigh. one day people will understand geology and geophysics.
3. Legion - November 3, 2009 4:18 PM
Death, be all but proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful. I am Legion for we are many...
4. John - November 3, 2009 4:19 PM
I would sooo bath in that ocean.
What? I can't enjoy a nice shower of dust?
5. birr crinton - November 3, 2009 4:22 PM
its a giant butt crack!! get it? because butts have cracks and this is a crack in the ground. therefore this can be looked at as a buttoximus crackimus. i wonder if there is any petrified feces in this crack. now that would be ironic. get it?? just like how regular butt cracks might happen to house some fecal matter this giant crack in the ground may be home to some feeks. some feek feeks. dont get all excited. you stupid.
6. STOMPY (wants your mario kart friend code) - November 3, 2009 4:23 PM
srlsy ppl, I want your Mario Kart friend code.....
Ass for giant cracks go, I say let em.... It is the american way to let the cracks grow large...
7. DCLeisurist - November 3, 2009 4:25 PM
All that crack is making me both horny and fiend-y. Seriously, I'd hit that. Looks a little dry, but as GW said, it'll be an ocean.... after seeing my wang! Boo-yah!
8. cabbo - November 3, 2009 4:26 PM
And lo, a great fissure will open through the ground as God's will is called to earth, and on the seventh day a great ocean shall rise up, engulfing all who are starving and in need of a decent ecosystem on which to live. Yay.
9. cabbo - November 3, 2009 4:28 PM
So it is written that (insert famous model) shall sniff up all the crack, and, without realising her idiocy, drown in an ocean of mouth foam. Yay.
10. STOMPY - November 3, 2009 4:30 PM
Thes are a soo big open in grounder!! I am not beleive tet a boor!! Suckin hols and a creck on flooring!! Oh no! Thes black men is to be in oshun wet! Too bed and shit luck for thess. Go shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Put are diks onside mine mout tung. Suckin you.
11. cabbo - November 3, 2009 4:37 PM
Yay.
12. STOMPY - November 3, 2009 4:48 PM
THIM MAKE CRECKS IN ERTH FOR?? SUCKIN IT!!
13. cabbo - November 3, 2009 4:52 PM
Suck it, verily.
14. cabbo - November 3, 2009 4:54 PM
After this the moon will have a 'lunar shift' and there will be 'extremely strong solar flares' and planet x will 'exist'.
15. Uncle Eccoli - November 3, 2009 4:59 PM
Lol @ #2
16. cabbo - November 3, 2009 5:01 PM
Lol at YOU.
17. r k - November 3, 2009 5:02 PM
did anyone else click this link expecting to see the rear end of a really fat african?
18. cabbo - November 3, 2009 5:10 PM
@17 and sweaty enough to be the site of a future ocean, yeah.
19. cabbo - November 3, 2009 5:11 PM
Future ocean = opposite of fountian of youth.
20. Gerinych - November 3, 2009 5:39 PM
I thought the apocalypse was delayed until 2220...
21. Closet Nerd - November 3, 2009 5:42 PM
@STOMPY
Hit me up with a message on my FB page, and i'll add you to my personal FB friends, then we can exchange mario kart license #s. I play that shit almost every night.
22. STOMPY - November 3, 2009 6:59 PM
@21 I SAID, SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
23. Closet Nerd - November 3, 2009 7:00 PM
@22 Fluck off Troll
24. STOMPY - November 3, 2009 7:56 PM
@23, sit on my face, because youre the homosexual.
25. ciao - November 3, 2009 11:03 PM
step on this crack, you'll certainly break your mum's back.
26. deedlit - November 4, 2009 6:34 AM
Old news
27. Christian Betong - November 4, 2009 7:11 AM
Here is how it looks like now, from the british geological survey
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/highlights/images/afarRift1Large.jpg
28. Jaded Icon - November 4, 2009 8:18 AM
@ fake STOMPY
If I were you I wouldn't answer your door for the next couple of days....
29. Safdar - November 4, 2009 11:22 AM
from the looks of the man standing in the picture, I think the picture is taken from India
30. Coolbeans - November 4, 2009 10:40 PM
@2: I took highschool environmental science and I know the real reasoning for that freakin crack! The earth is a planet populated by truly dumb people if they really believe this will one day be an ocean.
31. Nerd_Girl - November 5, 2009 7:12 PM
Nice, my geography professor just told us about this, I wonder if this is the site he found it on... Creepy, since he's fifty something.