No Dry Mediterranean For Anyone!

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No Dry Mediterranean For Anyone!
Topic Started: Dec 19 2010, 08:05 AM (1,270 Views)
Carlos	Dec 19 2010, 08:05 AM Post #1
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	To elaborate, I saw a documentary involving plate tectonics that indicates that the Red Sea is expanding, and that Arabia and mainland Africa are moving away. Thus, the Mediterranean sea will connect to the Indian Ocean naturally very soon, at the same time as north Africa collides with the Iberian Peninsula; thus, there will be little to no time for the Mediterranean to dry out.
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lamna	Dec 19 2010, 08:12 AM Post #2
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Unless, as it rips away from the mainland, East Africa collides with Arabia and blocks off the red sea. What documentary did you see.
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Carlos	Dec 19 2010, 08:18 AM Post #3
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	Possibly, but the connection to the sea would be present; as east Africa seperates itself, the Indian Ocean will come from the south, swallowing the great lakes. The Red Sea would not be disconnected from the sea, but elongated, now seperating west Africa from east Africa as well as connecting the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Of course, there might be a time in which the Mediterranean might be isolated and ence might become dry, but it would be a very short period of time. I forgot the name, but it was from BBC
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dialforthedevil	Dec 19 2010, 08:43 AM Post #4
Frumentarii Administrator Posts: 7,371 Group: Away Staff Member #323 Joined: Jun 8, 2010 Gender: Male Favorite Quote: "Every Human life is a spark in the darkness..."	Was it with some weird welsh bloke? I think i might have seen that. So we could have an influx of more tropical marine life into the Mediterranean.
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Carlos	Dec 19 2010, 09:27 AM Post #5
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	I reinterpreted Dixon's Mudgulper in the light of this possibility: http://johnfaa.deviantart.com/#/d356o84
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Iowanic	Dec 19 2010, 10:24 AM Post #6
Adult Posts: 671 Group: Members Member #218 Joined: Sep 13, 2009	Dang! Those scruffas looked like good-eatting...



Scrublord	Dec 20 2010, 05:55 PM Post #7
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Kamidio	Dec 20 2010, 07:12 PM Post #8
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Scrublord	Dec 20 2010, 08:30 PM Post #9
Father Pellegrini Posts: 4,423 Group: Members Member #169 Joined: May 5, 2009 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American (unfortunately) Favorite Quote: Life can seem a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.	Why?
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Kamidio	Dec 20 2010, 08:32 PM Post #10
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	coughUnovacough
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


Canis Lupis	Dec 20 2010, 08:43 PM Post #11
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth. Posts: 5,881 Group: Away Staff Member #95 Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Gender: Female Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "A speccer once tried to tell me I was wrong. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."	Caspian Sea would be a good spot. Also, the Black Sea. But short of those small places, I'm not seeing any possibilities in the near future.



Kamidio	Dec 20 2010, 08:44 PM Post #12
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	Wales. It'll become a giant plains area dotted with plateus. In about 350 million years.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


Canis Lupis	Dec 20 2010, 09:01 PM Post #13
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth. Posts: 5,881 Group: Away Staff Member #95 Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Gender: Female Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "A speccer once tried to tell me I was wrong. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."	No, it won't. In order to be a plateau, the area would have to be under tectonic activity. Which, when the world forms a supercontinent in at least 200 million years, Wales won't have any tectonic activity. Which makes the notion of plateaus nearly impossible.



Kamidio	Dec 20 2010, 09:07 PM Post #14
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	Arizona would like a word with you.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


Canis Lupis	Dec 20 2010, 09:28 PM Post #15
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth. Posts: 5,881 Group: Away Staff Member #95 Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Gender: Female Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "A speccer once tried to tell me I was wrong. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."	Arizona is at the end of the Rockies and has a big river flowing through it.



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