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2007-03-03 Science & Technology

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-03 07:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Very interesting. Not something I had heard before, but haven't followed this topic in 20 years, so... But nothing said in this article strikes me as patently bogus.
It's not an 'ocean', as title correctly scare quotes. It is also not all under China - it just seems there may be a bit more there than average. I am curious why that might be - perhaps somehow related to the collision of Indian and Asian plates, or perhaps not actually unusual but just the first noted?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-03-03 10:58|| 2007-03-03 10:58|| Front Page Top

#2 next week's headline:

Huge 'Rock Formation' Discovered Inside Earth

Posted by RD 2007-03-03 11:30|| 2007-03-03 11:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Black Obelisk detected on Lunar surface. Chimps observed using tools.

Posted by Chiper Threreger8956 2007-03-03 11:53|| 2007-03-03 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Water covers 70 percent of Earths surface and one of its many functions is to act like a lubricant for the movement of continental plates.

49 cent a quart Dixie-Lube had a lot of water-like qualities.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-03 11:54|| 2007-03-03 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Glenmore, about 1500 BCE, emperor Yao set up teams to drain Chinese mainland of excess water that was a remnant of some immense flood/tsunami that flooded all the land except for higher elevations. The lowland depresions drained longer, for about 20 years or thus, so the fragments of literature related to that perio go. It is posible that the water locked in the Beijing anomaly is originating from those times.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-03-03 12:02|| 2007-03-03 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Do water Wells Drilled in Bejing yield salt water?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-03 12:15|| 2007-03-03 12:15|| Front Page Top

#7 ...Washington State University in St. Louis...

Oh, I don't think so.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-03-03 12:25|| 2007-03-03 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 correct Angie, and good catch
Washington University in St. Louis

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-03 12:27|| 2007-03-03 12:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I understand real estate has gotten so expensive in Pullman that they're relocating. Or was it the climate?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-03 12:29|| 2007-03-03 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 It's the Great Sea of Pellucidar!

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-03-03 15:17|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-03-03 15:17|| Front Page Top

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