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[quote]The canyon, which is thought to predate glaciation, has remained hidden beneath two kilometers (1.2 miles) of ice for more than four million years. It has the characteristics of a meandering river channel, an ancient river system that Bamber thinks hasn’t been significantly modified by ice cover.
It is almost twice the length of the Grand Canyon, half as deep but almost as wide, and certainly the only feature in Greenland this long.[/quote]
[url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/mega-canyon-discovered-beneath-greenland-ice-sheet/[/url]
Unsurprising. Given the amount of ice on top of it, it's not surprising that there's a massive canyon underneath it.
[QUOTE]and certainly the only feature in Greenland this long.[/QUOTE]
That reminds me of something
[QUOTE=lintz;42023110]Unsurprising. Given the amount of ice on top of it, it's not surprising that there's a massive canyon underneath it.[/QUOTE]
Sure it's unsurprising, but it's still cool to consider what sorts of formations exist underneath the surface that we can't inherently see.
why the fuck i read it as a "mega-crayon discovered beneath greenland"?
The Grander Canyon
The sea of blood is more amazing.
Lets hurry up global warming or heat that area up so we can see it.
[QUOTE=TheHydra;42023291]The Grander Canyon[/QUOTE]
Well technically, it would be the Slightly-Less Grand Canyon.
[QUOTE=enricociccio;42023266]why the fuck i read it as a "mega-crayon discovered beneath greenland"?[/QUOTE]
I read it as "mega-cannon discovered beneath greenland"
NO
THE GRAND CANYON IS THE ONLY THING ARIZONA HAS
Don't you fucking take this from me, Greenland
[QUOTE=Alec W;42023479]Well technically, it would be the Slightly-Less Grand Canyon.[/QUOTE]
We need someone who knows a bit of math to come in and calculate the volume sand put this to rest, I suspect they will have similar volumes though
[editline]Screw It[/editline]
Screw it, I'm doing something that will probably give the wrong answer
Grand canyon= 1x1x1
Green Canyon= 1x0.5x2
both have a volume of 1 arbitrary unit cubed
thus they are both as grand as each other and are now brofisting to their grandure
Slightly less grand is right.
This canyon is approximately 6000km cubed(750km long*10km wide*0.8km deep)
The Grand Canyon has an average volume of about 11400km cubed (446km long*16km wide*1.6km deep)
I bet it's cool down there
Don't awaken the serpent
I wonder if there is any ancient frozen plant or animal life down there.
[QUOTE=Proj3ct_ZeRo;42026364]I wonder if there is any ancient frozen plant or animal life down there.[/QUOTE]
Lets hope we never see the canyon without radar or something
Would be cool to get some drill samples of the place
So I read it as mega-canon and thought: 'fuck Syria, Iceland is preparing for war!'
do lizard people live there
Think ice-age people could have lived there? I don't really know much about history before like 2000 BCE
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;42032327]Think ice-age people could have lived there? I don't really know much about history before like 2000 BCE[/QUOTE]
The last ice age was only 15,000 years ago. It remains possible that the climate was too cold for anything to survive properly.
It's not a canyon.
It's a nest.
From now on I'll burn my trash and buy a high polluting car so global warming clears this place from its ice jail.
Then I'll move there and have a polar bear farm.
[QUOTE=Proj3ct_ZeRo;42026364]I wonder if there is any ancient frozen plant or animal life down there.[/QUOTE]
Yeah,
Cthulhu
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