Thursday, January 12, 2006

The Long View

I wonder if any ReThugs have purchased future shoreline property? They're probably already working on legislation to keep the lower classes from using the beach. Typical.

"Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the 'birth of a new ocean basin,' scientists said.

Researchers from Britain, France, Italy and the United States have been observing the 37-mile long fissure since it split open in September in the Afar desert and estimate it will take a million years to fully form into an ocean, said Dereje Ayalew, who leads the team of 18 scientists studying the phenomenon."
Via Buzzflash.

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