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To: jlallen who wrote (1012095)4/19/2017 10:31:58 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 1573852
 
"Your faith based beliefs do not stand up to reality."
I know, but I keep hoping the Ark of the Covenant and/or Moses' burning bush will be discovered in my lifetime.

Moving on to science,

Historic Calif. Drought Wreaked Irreversible, Bizarre Damage
Central Valley sank 3 feet—and won’t be rebounding
Snowmelt and rain are in abundance for the first time in years in Central Valley, Calif., which boasts so much farmland it helps feed much of the world. But the state’s five-year drought was so bad that all those farms sucked up enough groundwater to sink a solid three feet, thereby reducing the region’s water storage capacity, reports a new study out of Stanford University. “California is getting all of this rain, but in the Central Valley, there has been a loss of space to store it,” says a researcher tells Courthouse News; they used satellite technology to precisely calculate the changes in elevation. “When too much water is taken out of clay, its structure is rearranged at the microscopic level and it settles into a new configuration that has less storage space.”
newser.com