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TL;DR a split in Ethiopia is about 65km long. It'll eventually split the African Continent in 10 million years. Hold off the oceanfront land speculation. Artic
by vermontdevil 10y ago
TL;DR a split in Ethiopia is about 65km long. It'll eventually split the African Continent in 10 million years. Hold off the oceanfront land speculation.
Article is from 2010 btw.
- fred_is_fred 10y agoFor a quick ROI in less than a hundred years you could just buy land further inland in places like Florida, North/South Carolina, even London. Once Greenland goes and the ice sheets in Antartica you'll have beachfront.
- notyourwork 10y ago> Article is from 2010 btw. Thank you for pointing this out. I find a tendency to not seek out date of publish and assume content from places like hackernews is current. From 2010 feels a lot less like current events which is part of what I read the front page here. New years resolution is to check dates and sources of articles, thanks!
- bcraven 10y agoI'm seeing the title listed on HN as "Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) (bbc.com)" Is this something only I can see, or was it edited since your comment?
- igravious 10y agoTheir comment is from 10 hours ago. New feature proposal for HN, little edited label/flag next to titles that have been changed by the mods.
- zeristor 10y agoI reckon things haven't changed much in the last several years. There's glacial, and then there's continental drift.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoSo really, 9,999,993 years from now. :)
- navs 10y agoIf there was ever a case for immortality, this is it. I'd love to see how this turns out.