Complete failure without even on Keys mention.

That actually draws up a mildly interesting thought...

What is the distribution of Fark tags per tab? How does it compare to the non-greenlit distribution?

When I was an undergrad, I took a geology course, and the professor demonstrated how as time passes the limestone ridge that keeps Florida above sea level will eventually collapse.

We can only hope it happens in our lifetime.

special20: UNC_Samurai: When I was an undergrad, I took a geology course, and the professor demonstrated how as time passes the limestone ridge that keeps Florida above sea level will eventually collapse.

We can only hope it happens in our lifetime.

A smart man would know that the Miami Rock Ridge is in south Florida.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Rock_Ridge

If you're fine with losing habitat that supports numerous local plant species; 20 percent occur nowhere else in the world, then I'd guess you're doubly full of hot air.

I'm sorry if my snark agitated your hemorrhoids.

special20: If you're fine with losing habitat that supports numerous local plant species; 20 percent occur nowhere else in the world, then I'd guess you're doubly full of hot air.

I can't think of a reason for habitat loss more natural than "the area sank into the ocean due to tectonic shifts". So yeah, I'm fine with it. Nature happens, if it also results in something that feeds snarky humor that's a double bonus.

Speaker2Animals: About 1:08 a.m., officer Stephanie Pridgen saw a 22-year-old woman running without clothes on westbound in the 1100 block of Northwest 5th Avenue, according to an arrest report.

Then officers found two other naked women -- ages 21 and 22 -- hiding in the shrubbery in the immediate area, the report stated.

special20: I suppose the "Atlantians" had no issue with their homes slipping beneath the waves - that must have been an awesome knee slapper.

They just evolved into fish. Plus it was their own fault for making their city an island in the first place.



/hot from another fark thread, easy google pickings

And yes, if there were standing cultural jokes about wanting Atlantis to slip off into the ocean, it would be funny in the aftermath. We're not talking about splash bye bye landmass, this is on a geologic timescale likely taking hundreds of thousands of years to happen. Sure there may be violent events in the process, but its not going to suddenly disappear.

And seriously, tectonic shifts are just about as natural and inevitable as a reason can be for habitat "loss" (in this case it's more of "change due to things way outside of the realm of human influence"). If that is the cause of an area not being able to be inhabited by what we currently consider to be its natural inhabitants then that's just the way it is going to be, not much that we as a species can say about it other than "well, that's that".

Remember kids, in nature things change, the delusion that we can keep everything exactly the way it is now is just that, a delusion. Especially when we're talking about things on a geologic scale.