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		Hawaiian islands are (possibly) melting from within. Everybody panic (sciencedaily.com)		45
		More: Interesting, surface waters, soil sample, Oahu, U.S. Geological Survey, Brian Selck

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OtherLittleGuy		2012-12-23 09:23:32 PM

Found the problem:

4.bp.blogspot.com

Amos Quito		2012-12-23 09:26:23 PM

"According to the researchers' estimates, the net effect is that Oahu will continue to grow for as long as 1.5 million years. Beyond that, the force of groundwater will eventually triumph and the island will begin its descent to a low-lying topography."

Visit Oahu. While you still can.

SpikeStrip		2012-12-23 09:43:09 PM

farkin' tectonics, how do they work?

PhiloeBedoe		2012-12-23 10:03:01 PM

F*ckin' FartBongo...

AbbeySomeone		2012-12-23 11:00:43 PM

Sweet Holiday Jeebus! Won't somebody think of the pineapples?

Krymson Tyde		2012-12-23 11:12:57 PM

buzzcut73		2012-12-24 12:32:51 AM

SpikeStrip: farkin' tectonics, how do they work?

This. If you look on a map, you'll find a whole chain of islands to the northwest of Oahu that get lower in elevation until you reach Kure Atoll at the top of the chain. Beyond that, there are underwater seamounts that used to be islands. Someday, there will be an island south of the Big Island too.

thenooch		2012-12-24 12:34:07 AM

said Brigham Young University geologist Steve Nelson

Farkin' morans

theorellior		2012-12-24 12:35:47 AM

This is news?

Oh, wait. It's Fark.com.

jtown		2012-12-24 12:44:25 AM

buzzcut73: SpikeStrip: farkin' tectonics, how do they work?

This. If you look on a map, you'll find a whole chain of islands to the northwest of Oahu that get lower in elevation until you reach Kure Atoll at the top of the chain. Beyond that, there are underwater seamounts that used to be islands. Someday, there will be an island south of the Big Island too.

farm5.staticflickr.com

Inquisitive Inquisitor		2012-12-24 12:48:24 AM

You mean the chain of islands formed by a volcanic hot spot with extensive volcanic activity might actually by dissolving from tectonic forces within the island?

28.media.tumblr.com

Brick-House		2012-12-24 12:51:51 AM

So how much time do they have left, one, two million years perhaps?

LazarusLong42		2012-12-24 12:55:16 AM

jtown: buzzcut73: SpikeStrip: farkin' tectonics, how do they work?

This. If you look on a map, you'll find a whole chain of islands to the northwest of Oahu that get lower in elevation until you reach Kure Atoll at the top of the chain. Beyond that, there are underwater seamounts that used to be islands. Someday, there will be an island south of the Big Island too.

[farm5.staticflickr.com image 465x619]

Not to mention that the seamounts take a major tack northward where the plate changed direction about 40 million years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian%E2%80%93Emperor_seamount_chain

PsyLord		2012-12-24 01:01:26 AM

That's what you get for stopping those virgin sacrifices. Oh wait, you couldn't find anymore virgins to sacrifice in today's world? We're boned.

Pray 4 Mojo		2012-12-24 01:08:53 AM

Whew! I visited Oahu this summer. Thank god I made it before it dissolved.

puppypants		2012-12-24 01:13:08 AM

Pahoehoe

Huck And Molly Ziegler		2012-12-24 01:16:24 AM

I blame Wo Fat. Prob'ly has an underground lair.

/book 'im, danno

GeneralJim		2012-12-24 01:23:45 AM

Is this the replacement panic for the falsified "global warming" bullshiat? 'Cause that would be SUPER!

Hawai'i nei no ka oi!

Real Women Drink Akvavit		2012-12-24 01:25:27 AM

My sister is a surfer, and while we have good surf spots here in Cali, she likes Hawaii. Even if I told her it would be a couple million years before the islands she knows and loves would disappear, it would give her a major sad. So I won't tell her nuthin'.

fugeeface		2012-12-24 01:28:41 AM

What, boddah you?

/Aloha nui loa.

theorellior		2012-12-24 01:35:04 AM

GeneralJim: Is this the replacement panic for the falsified "global warming" bullshiat? 'Cause that would be SUPER!

Hawai'i nei no ka oi!

Shouldn't you be consulting the Urantia Book on this? I'm sure it will have something to say that will enlighten us all.

twiztedjustin		2012-12-24 01:36:52 AM

Cool, when all the inbred natives have to flee to the mainland we can be assholes to them because they weren't born here.

KICK ASS!

ultraholland		2012-12-24 01:38:11 AM

Real Women Drink Akvavit: Even if I told her it would be a couple million years before the islands she knows and loves would disappear, it would give her a major sad

she's obviously not a geologist

Mikeyworld		2012-12-24 01:40:15 AM

The same kinda thing is happening inside Mt. Rainier up here in Washington. The rain seeps into the mountain and gets heated up by volcanic forces, which broils the granite into clay. Some day, the sides will slide down and drown Tacoma. At the same time, the plug will wash out and start the eruptions again.

/No Mayans were hurt in the making of this prophecy

Mikeyworld		2012-12-24 01:43:49 AM

PsyLord: That's what you get for stopping those virgin sacrifices. Oh wait, you couldn't find anymore virgins to sacrifice in today's world? We're boned.

That's what she said....

/So very old, I know

GeneralJim		2012-12-24 02:28:34 AM

theorellior:

GeneralJim: Is this the replacement panic for the falsified "global warming" bullshiat? 'Cause that would be SUPER!

Hawai'i nei no ka oi!

Shouldn't you be consulting the Urantia Book on this? I'm sure it will have something to say that will enlighten us all.

Okay, just a minute... WTF? "theorellior ist ein Affeschwanz". Does anyone here speak German?

FriarED1		2012-12-24 02:44:25 AM

OtherLittleGuy: Found the problem:

[4.bp.blogspot.com image 715x401]

Done in one.

LDM90		2012-12-24 02:50:02 AM

I clicked the link and read this thread (possibly).

Gyrfalcon		2012-12-24 02:56:42 AM

Amos Quito: "According to the researchers' estimates, the net effect is that Oahu will continue to grow for as long as 1.5 million years. Beyond that, the force of groundwater will eventually triumph and the island will begin its descent to a low-lying topography."

Visit Oahu. While you still can.

Oh dear. Only 1.5 million years?!? That's as many as.....150,000 40's! And that's terrible!

SnarfVader		2012-12-24 03:10:38 AM

Mikeyworld: The same kinda thing is happening inside Mt. Rainier up here in Washington. The rain seeps into the mountain and gets heated up by volcanic forces, which broils the granite into clay. Some day, the sides will slide down and drown Tacoma. At the same time, the plug will wash out and start the eruptions again.

/No Mayans were hurt in the making of this prophecy

You need the rain to mix with the volcanic sulfur in the mountain to form sulfuric acid in order to really eat the rock.

shidekigonomo		2012-12-24 03:27:16 AM

Throw the kids in the van, we're moving to Lo'ihi

JerkyMeat		2012-12-24 03:46:59 AM

Mele Kalikimaka, biatches.

dbirchall		2012-12-24 03:48:55 AM

Mark my words, real estate on Loihi is going up, up, up.

SwiftFox		2012-12-24 03:49:23 AM

"The main thing that surprised me on the way was the appearance of a large amount of quartz in a saprolite taken from a 1-meter depth," Selck said

So, there's gold in Hawaii?

Another Government Employee		2012-12-24 06:15:26 AM

Mikeyworld: The same kinda thing is happening inside Mt. Rainier up here in Washington. The rain seeps into the mountain and gets heated up by volcanic forces, which broils the granite into clay. Some day, the sides will slide down and drown Tacoma. At the same time, the plug will wash out and start the eruptions again.

/No Mayans were hurt in the making of this prophecy

Earthquakes to the left of me.
Volcanos to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you.

Mcaffolder		2012-12-24 06:56:12 AM

Waiting for Loihi....

/with a flag

Day_Old_Dutchie		2012-12-24 07:38:58 AM

"I'm MELTING!!!"

ALC59		2012-12-24 09:24:24 AM

it's just hell trying to take obama back

davebarnes		2012-12-24 09:51:24 AM

Some people would blame this on Obama.
But, I know he was born in Kenya so it is not his fault.

spidermilk		2012-12-24 10:29:03 AM

SwiftFox: "The main thing that surprised me on the way was the appearance of a large amount of quartz in a saprolite taken from a 1-meter depth," Selck said

So, there's gold in Hawaii?

If I have to live with my SO watching ANOTHER SERIES ABOUT gold mining I am personally going to go run their dump trucks into their wash plants.

/Gold Rush. Worst show ever. I SAID IT.

CigaretteSmokingMan		2012-12-24 12:31:11 PM

SpikeStrip: farkin' tectonics, how do they work?

i172.photobucket.com

cleveoh		2012-12-24 01:11:00 PM

Hawaiian islands are (possibly) melting from within. Everybody ~~panic~~ poi-nic

/there, I feel better.

Nytfall		2012-12-24 02:14:38 PM

Melting islands?

THAT'S some global warming I can get behind!

Deep Contact		2012-12-24 04:12:01 PM

It doesn't really matter. Someday the sun will swallow the Earth after becoming a red giant. Or the red giant sun will throw the Earth into deep space and become a giant snowball floating in space. So does anything really matter?