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Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland
- chungy 6y agoNag-free link: https://archive.today/bJlRf https://archive.today/bJlRf
- orhmeh09 6y agoThis may hit you with a Google captcha that is a worse nag — on the submitted web page, at least, you can type in whatever you want in the box instead of becoming a computer trainer for a few moments.
- dundarious 6y agoI thought archive.today only uses a captcha when saving a snapshot of a page, not when viewing a given snapshot, which would mean GP's link wouldn't hit you with a captcha.
- orhmeh09 6y agoI saw a captcha when I clicked on it, so this is not always true.
- dundarious 6y agoThanks, good to know that my assumption was incorrect.
- canadianfella 6y agoIf anyone else is curious, the oldest rocks found are about 8 times older than what is discussed in the article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks
- cjones26 6y agoNational Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.
- genocidicbunny 6y agoIf you disable Javascript, it seems to still load the full article, and doesn't break formatting.
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- nawgz 6y agoPlus if you're decent with the inspector, you can usually remove the paywall and then if the body doesn't scroll find the Event Listener for `onscroll` and kill that; it almost always is just a simple fn preventing scroll events
- mrb 6y agoOn this National Geographics page, in the inspector just select the <body> and in the CSS pane remove the "position: fixed" and "overflow: hidden". This allows scrolling.
- bigiain 6y agoI'll give an annoying popup/paywalled page one chance by trying reader mode, which often works. I'm extremely rarely motivated enough to bother trying any harder than that to read an article the publisher is actively working against me being able to read.
- genocidicbunny 6y agoI didn't even consider reader mode to be honest. I've been using the disable-javascript thing for so long it's become the automatic go-to when I get such popups.
- legerdemain 6y agoBaldemor represen'!
- blinding-streak 6y agoThat email popup is obnoxious UI. I really might never visit their site ever again. It's that bad.
- emerged 6y agoSame, I don’t negotiate with ad terrorists.
- xfilesfan 6y agoHere’s the journal article upon which the NG article is based. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/17/2/561/594550/Suprasubduction-zone-ophiolite-fragments-in-the https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/17/2/...
- elseweather 6y agoI wish the article had more photos - from the one it looks like it could be an awesome rock climbing area
- Fricken 6y agoWhen I was a kid the magazine was all about the photos. Online NatGeo doesn't get it. They're not getting my email address either.
- arbitrage 6y agoOh they get it. But good photos require sometimes multiple talented photogs and a support team. These are expensive. Their cashflow was on the decline, because nobody buys magazines anymore. Magazines had a higher profit margin than online impressions, until they didn't anymore. Nobody's paying, nobody's funding expeditions or in-depth research. Race to the bottom! Last one there wins ... somehow.
- throwanem 6y agoSoldiers Delight is a preservation area, so the rangers won't be pleased if you go off the trail there, nor should they be - I expect the researchers had to clear their visit in advance. But there are plenty of formations around here similar to the one in the article photo; I feel like you'd have a harder time finding a state park without them, than with.
- pluc 6y agoReally glad to see people have started to blacklist publications instead of offering workarounds ("Use an anonymous window!" "Toggle off Javascript!") There really is no excuse to treat your customers/readers/viewers like that (edit: especially when you have Disney money) Maybe if enough of us give up on them they'll learn and we'll turn "marketing" on its axis
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- shuntress 6y agoI assume this is related to the "Enter your email to read this article" popup? As an aside, I used to work on a technical team that handled things like that on a relatively high-traffic website. I was told at the time that the rough "going rate" for an email address entered this way was $20. This specifically always makes me wish that some kind of advertising revenue share would catch on and make this kind of thing feel like a win-win rather than feel as though I'm being exploited.
- xpe 6y agoThis is a placeholder for substantive commentary about the article contents... ...rather than complaints about Natty Geo's business model (and asking for an email address). The latter complaints are obvious and uninteresting, and are not unique to Natty Geo. I'm not categorically against such commentary, but it is not useful if they dominate the commentary here. The former is interesting because it is relevant to the -content- of the article -- or the underling study if you prefer to read that. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/17/2/561/594550/Suprasubduction-zone-ophiolite-fragments-in-the https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/17/2/...
- xpe 6y agoInteresting! > the landscape undergo a remarkable change. The greenery shifted from a variety of leafy trees and plants to barren grassy fields rimed with stunted oak and pine. The difference in vegetation reflected a change in the underlying geology, evincing rocks with excess magnesium and too little calcium for most plants to thrive. We had driven onto the mantle.
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- ASpaceCowboi 6y agoWho needs to mine Eth or Bitcoin when I can go mine some real ROCKS!!!!!! LIKE A REAL MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!