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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
SPY 691.66-0.1%Jan 16 4:00 PM EST

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (10865)11/15/2007 1:22:11 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 25737
 
I could draw-up "plans" for a space launch facility in Peru - utilizing the rotation of the Earth and the ramping up of the Andes to design a more cost-effective launch system - and, despite however 'sensible' or not the plan was... that wouldn't mean that it inevitably was gonna happen....

:-)

(Just look at the war in Sudan, between the Islamic/Arab North and the Black African groups to the South... it makes for a pretty good analogy for the rivalries between the North of Africa, and the sub-Saharan South. And, the sub-Saharan South has more then enough ethnic distinctiveness and political and economic rivalries ALREADY to go around. Africa is a big, big place. Bigger then North America.)

PS --- yesterday I read an article about plate tectonics and the past history of the Earth's continents and oceans... and where they will be going 'next'.

Did you know that most of Florida is actually land taken from the African continent (specifically: what is now Mauritania) the last time Africa and North America crunched together and then pulled apart?

Interesting... they say the next big phase will be for 'subduction' to begin in parts of the cold, dense, Atlantic sea floor (sea floor will start sinking into the mantle), resulting in the Atlantic growing smaller and the continents all starting to pull together into a new super continent, with ....

Interesting site, "Earth History":

scotese.com

Something like 250 million years, and counting, into the future:

scotese.com

:-)
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