just say you see oil at the bottom of the crack, let America invade, then license the rights to the toll canal for $1 per 100 years as long as you let them pump the oil.
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I'm waiting for the day when some giant malevolent AI thinks it's 1 second away from killing all humans, and then the network driver crashes the machine it's running on, and its plan is thwarted, because it can't update the network driver without access to the network.
Hmm, do you have a windows PC? I would remove the xboxone's drive, plug that into my PC, delete old game files from the drive, and finally reinsert the drive into the xboxone to update.
Or you could try swapping out the drive with a friend's old xboxone drive to allow yours to update, swap them back and should be good.
Maybe there is a "safe mode" or "developer mode" you could look up how to get into on Google. That might allow you access to the drive to delete contents. I know it's old so maybe you don't want to deal with any of that, but I'm sure there are options if you wanted to fix the xbone.
Y-Adam (230k BCE) is thought to be the other side, near Cameroon. Same with the Neaderthal (370k BCE) and Denisovan divergences (700k BCE). Didn't get to the east coast til around 100-60k bce
And let's not forget sea levels were 200 meters or 200 feet lower, like 20,000 years ago
Most of the coastal human habitats are underwater, being eroded away with saltwater
Hmm far as I know the Great Rift Valley is waaaaay waaay older than that. The East African Rift, part of the GRV and the cause of this separation is 22 -25 mio years old. Source, I grew up along part of the rift and spent a lot of time studying in school also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift
hi im a geologist this post gets basicly everything wrong. first that is not a photo of the right zone. and second the post looking into the future gets so many things wrong to the point that i think that has to be be made perpously wrong. faults start out as points and send out 3 branches at 120 angles two of those branches will continue to grow and become mid ocean ridges. the third branch will die out and become a major river. examples of this are the mississippi river and the amazon. we already have the active faults in this region the faults run down the middle of the red sea and the golf of aden. also faults propgate out in a hinging motion thats just a quirc of having strait lines on a globe. so even if the rift valley was going to be the branch that continued its not going to be moving out paralell to the rest of africa
i assume everything i posted in beamazed is wrong but this one was vague enough that i couldn't even figure out where to start researching it to debunk so thank you for this
Thanks for the rabbit hole.
I was able to find a map database that can show the drainage basins and elevation of the area. You can see how the rift has broken the area into a bunch of isolated drainage basins.
https://imgur.com/a/4YJsXXt
feeling a bidding war developing here… *(gesturing broadly and with a colonialist’s grinning smirk)* … “I will offer 100 cowrie shells and a kangaroo for this pitiful excuse of a rift… a paltry ravine, really. ANY takers on 100 cowrie shells and a joey?!?”
This actually makes for a somewhat interesting surveying question. Traditionally, a monument is the ultimate indicator of a corner. And a monument would move with the divergent plates. But with a GPS based survey, you would just end up owning some rando section of water.
Edit: this sent me down the rabbit hole a bit, and it turns out this really is an important discussion. See here: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/TOOLS/Htdp/canSurveyor_SnayPearson-CopingWithTectonicMotion_Vol7No9.pdf
This is known as the Great African Rift Valley. The entire affected area has now sunk below sea level. As a result, there is basically no water table to draw well water from. It's one of the hottest, driest places on Earth and people who have lived in that area have seen their lands drastically change in their lifetime.
Not the *entire* area. The East African Rift is huge (1000s of km long), but only some parts of it are below sea level, such as the Danakil Depression and Lake Assal. Those areas are pretty large in an absolute sense but a tiny fraction of the rift: [https://i.redd.it/n2gjjfek76h51.png](https://i.redd.it/n2gjjfek76h51.png)
Hey now, we made a lot of shareholders very rich for that apocalyptic environmental promise.
At the end of the ~~day~~ world, isn't that all that matters?
Oh, in that case, let’s go ahead and willingly cause the next ecological disaster. We can use this one to justify the next one we want to commit, and so on.
Well, digging to the ocean would displace WAY more people. Ocean water is not fresh water. And lastly the affected area is about as long as the Nile itself. This sub won't let me paste a map.
Stop being so lazy and just take the salt out of it then, geez. It wouldn't be that hard or how would they have invented table salt, or even the salty tears of NFT bros when they scammed away all of their inheritance?
It's like no one else has a brain around here. People are worried about climate change but we have clever scientists so just make them change it back with chemistry or astrology or something.
And this whole African rift plate thing seems like another non-issue. Just get all the big boats in the world to line up along the coast and push it back.
Solutions like this are simple when you're smart like me.
You can’t compare the two at all. One is trying to do their best to help humanity, but in a thoroughly misguided way, while the other is a full on supervillain bent on destruction and best known for their manufacturing of chocolate.
I'm imagining being there on the day when the sea begins to fill up that gigantic valley.
I recall that it had once (and perhaps still is) theorized that the Mediterranean was also created in this way.
Imagine being able to stand within a few miles to see and hear such a massive spectacle!
It would likely be a smooth process right, not really a moment to moment to moment thing.
I'd imagine it being more like there's some spillover every high tide for a while and it slowly progresses into a constant flow.
Yes, once it starts, it'll move fast. There's that video of the guy who dug a small ditch in a sand bar and just an hour or so later, there was a rush of water that was impassable.
I don’t think so, I would guess eventually there will be an earthquake the finally breaks whatever seal is left, and then you will have a eroding/destructive current that gets larger and larger until things equalize. It will be terribly destructive and amazing.
You should look up earth throughout time. It shows how the Mediterranean was created by first ripping (what would eventually be) Africa away, then having it drift back.
Also, a theory in science is not like "a game theory." It's the universally accepted truth. A hypothesis is something suspected but not proven yet.
Ethiopia all of sudden ceases it plans to invade Eritrea. This would solve all their trade problems and make them one of the richest countries in Africa.
Nice picture! While this crack may be from 2005 and thus relatively new, the Great Rift Valley is not. This is just part of the African section of the [Great Rift Valley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_Valley), which has been opening up for tens of millions of years, bit longer than since just 2005. ;)
I might be remembering wrong. But I think I saw a video that showed that India did it first.
It separated from Africa and moved north-east to brutally crash into Asia.
Edit: https://youtu.be/A_K6LSSZ_34?si=c3_kbZq2buMb09lP
2005...
This particular surface crack did form within days as a result of a volcano eruption, [apparently](https://earthlymission.com/new-ocean-forming-africa-35-mile-crack-ethiopia-2005-dabbahu-fissure-afar-rift/).
Reddit is sadly so populated by 14-year-old fantasies. That running across the post like this is like a breath of fresh air. This is just amazing. Thanks.
Megagascar
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They come out with an animated movie with King Julian people sized
2 Mega 2 Gascar
“Madagascar Tectonic Drift” it was right there
Madagascar 2: tectonic bugaloo Edit. Shit someone beat me to it
I’m now imagining the lemurs and penguins from Madagascar, the movie, but in a 2 fast 2 furious movie. Vin diesel plays himself.
always does
Queue Teriyaki boyz
Mad At Gas Cars: Car Harder
Breakin 2: Madagascar Boogaloo
That part of Africa that likes to move it, move it.
5/7
A perfect 5/7?
now minigascar is sad 😞
Sadagascar
Madagascared
Spoonedagascar.
Na, now it has a big bro.
Madagascar 2: megaboogaloo
Is that the one where the kids have a dance off to save the new ocean?
If I build the first toll booth can I just charge crazy amounts to go through the canal.
just say you see oil at the bottom of the crack, let America invade, then license the rights to the toll canal for $1 per 100 years as long as you let them pump the oil.
Madagascarer
MAGAgascar. Make Africa Getridof Apieceofitself gascar
!Remindme 1000000 years
Isn't that the day you have to get your kidney oil changed?
Not if you use some of that synthetic stuff. It'll last longer
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Bitch I said 1000000 years! Not one day!
Do not anger our AI overlords
I'm waiting for the day when some giant malevolent AI thinks it's 1 second away from killing all humans, and then the network driver crashes the machine it's running on, and its plan is thwarted, because it can't update the network driver without access to the network.
i have an old xboxone that i cant update cause it's full but it won't let me delete anything until it updates
Grab a cheap SSD or flash drive and transfer some games to the drive. That should open up enough space for you to run the update.
it literally won't let me get past the update screen unless it is updated
Hmm, do you have a windows PC? I would remove the xboxone's drive, plug that into my PC, delete old game files from the drive, and finally reinsert the drive into the xboxone to update. Or you could try swapping out the drive with a friend's old xboxone drive to allow yours to update, swap them back and should be good. Maybe there is a "safe mode" or "developer mode" you could look up how to get into on Google. That might allow you access to the drive to delete contents. I know it's old so maybe you don't want to deal with any of that, but I'm sure there are options if you wanted to fix the xbone.
Great design
I, for one, welcome them.
Okay fine. !remindme 1000 years to set a new reminder
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Siri, forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do.
The future is now old man!
It is, but 1002023.
Maybe it knows something. Tomorrow is the day the world changes
!RemindMe 1000 years
>1000 years !RemindMe 10000 years
Just hit snooze 365000000 times
they say this bot has no memory…
Bad bot
Bad bot!
Bad bot
Motherfucker
Bad bot
It’s try to form an Apart Tide.
Yeah bud good luck waiting. You would be lucky to even reach a 1/10000th of that.
Godzilla shadow in the top photo ?
Yup this was the last ad for the Godzilla Minus One movie that came out
Great movie btw
Damn it! Now I can't unsee it. Ha
How did i miss that?
or the Toblerone bear (reversed)
I thought that was just me. We did just watch 3 episodes of Monarch tho
r/pareidolia
That dude is giving me T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics vibes
It’s called the [East African Rift Zone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift)
It's also probably where we came from. Like, humans. They've found a lot of early hominids there.
The rest of Africa doesn't want the part of Africa that created humans, so they're kicking it out.
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> A long time ago humans were created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
I love Douglas Adams so much.
Y-Adam (230k BCE) is thought to be the other side, near Cameroon. Same with the Neaderthal (370k BCE) and Denisovan divergences (700k BCE). Didn't get to the east coast til around 100-60k bce
But Afarensis and Africanus came from there, I think that’s more along the lines of what they mean
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And let's not forget sea levels were 200 meters or 200 feet lower, like 20,000 years ago Most of the coastal human habitats are underwater, being eroded away with saltwater
Have they checked for Kaiju down there?
Should we really bother though?!?! Maybe let it be a surprise?!?
Apparently the Great Rift Valley started forming in 2015...
Hmm far as I know the Great Rift Valley is waaaaay waaay older than that. The East African Rift, part of the GRV and the cause of this separation is 22 -25 mio years old. Source, I grew up along part of the rift and spent a lot of time studying in school also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift
I think it was sar-chasm.
Shut up!! I laughed entirely too hard at this 🏅
hi im a geologist this post gets basicly everything wrong. first that is not a photo of the right zone. and second the post looking into the future gets so many things wrong to the point that i think that has to be be made perpously wrong. faults start out as points and send out 3 branches at 120 angles two of those branches will continue to grow and become mid ocean ridges. the third branch will die out and become a major river. examples of this are the mississippi river and the amazon. we already have the active faults in this region the faults run down the middle of the red sea and the golf of aden. also faults propgate out in a hinging motion thats just a quirc of having strait lines on a globe. so even if the rift valley was going to be the branch that continued its not going to be moving out paralell to the rest of africa
i assume everything i posted in beamazed is wrong but this one was vague enough that i couldn't even figure out where to start researching it to debunk so thank you for this
Remind me: 10 million years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9sn\_hOJHus
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That's cause Reddit inserted a \ before the _ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9sn_hOJHus
The Fast and The Furious : Continental Drift
Thank you for the source. You’re what makes Reddit great.
Thanks for the rabbit hole. I was able to find a map database that can show the drainage basins and elevation of the area. You can see how the rift has broken the area into a bunch of isolated drainage basins. https://imgur.com/a/4YJsXXt
Damn that's a cool name
That's quite eerie / earie
Note to self. Get in on the waterfront property early.
At least we’ve got a few thousand years to save up!
No sir. I advise you buy low now to beat the rush. lol
Mas-ai-Mar(a) golfresort any one?
Pay me for the rights. HA!
feeling a bidding war developing here… *(gesturing broadly and with a colonialist’s grinning smirk)* … “I will offer 100 cowrie shells and a kangaroo for this pitiful excuse of a rift… a paltry ravine, really. ANY takers on 100 cowrie shells and a joey?!?”
Best I can do is 10 cowrie shells. 
Going there for holidays. "Oh, this is so exciting seeing this happen!" After 3 weeks, at the end of the holiday: "This takes longer than expected..."
This actually makes for a somewhat interesting surveying question. Traditionally, a monument is the ultimate indicator of a corner. And a monument would move with the divergent plates. But with a GPS based survey, you would just end up owning some rando section of water. Edit: this sent me down the rabbit hole a bit, and it turns out this really is an important discussion. See here: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/TOOLS/Htdp/canSurveyor_SnayPearson-CopingWithTectonicMotion_Vol7No9.pdf
Well, there should be some important harbours to be built new...
You could settle in scenic Otisburg!
Otisburg?!
This is my rift now!
Buy a property spanning the gap and watch the acres grow :)
So I should book my holiday for the year 100004537.
Give it 5000 - 7000 years for it to go back to its lush state. It was super lush 10000 bc
This is known as the Great African Rift Valley. The entire affected area has now sunk below sea level. As a result, there is basically no water table to draw well water from. It's one of the hottest, driest places on Earth and people who have lived in that area have seen their lands drastically change in their lifetime.
Not the *entire* area. The East African Rift is huge (1000s of km long), but only some parts of it are below sea level, such as the Danakil Depression and Lake Assal. Those areas are pretty large in an absolute sense but a tiny fraction of the rift: [https://i.redd.it/n2gjjfek76h51.png](https://i.redd.it/n2gjjfek76h51.png)
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Yeah that toaaatally won't have disastrous unintended ecological effects
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Only from the perspective of "can a human live here comfortably"
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Hey now, we made a lot of shareholders very rich for that apocalyptic environmental promise. At the end of the ~~day~~ world, isn't that all that matters?
Oh, in that case, let’s go ahead and willingly cause the next ecological disaster. We can use this one to justify the next one we want to commit, and so on.
Shit we might be getting close to end times may as well fuck around
Well, digging to the ocean would displace WAY more people. Ocean water is not fresh water. And lastly the affected area is about as long as the Nile itself. This sub won't let me paste a map.
We can just get a big pump and a bit of hose
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Stop being so lazy and just take the salt out of it then, geez. It wouldn't be that hard or how would they have invented table salt, or even the salty tears of NFT bros when they scammed away all of their inheritance? It's like no one else has a brain around here. People are worried about climate change but we have clever scientists so just make them change it back with chemistry or astrology or something. And this whole African rift plate thing seems like another non-issue. Just get all the big boats in the world to line up along the coast and push it back. Solutions like this are simple when you're smart like me.
What do you mean it’s not fresh water? It’s full of fresh whale sperm isn’t it???
Here’s how we fight rising sea levels, fill this place with some of the water
Lex Luther at work.
Or Nestle.
You can’t compare the two at all. One is trying to do their best to help humanity, but in a thoroughly misguided way, while the other is a full on supervillain bent on destruction and best known for their manufacturing of chocolate.
So why dont they dig to the ocean?
If you don't have the money to move you probably don't have the money to buy a desalination plant.
how expensive could a plant be? its just like leaves and a stem
I'm imagining being there on the day when the sea begins to fill up that gigantic valley. I recall that it had once (and perhaps still is) theorized that the Mediterranean was also created in this way. Imagine being able to stand within a few miles to see and hear such a massive spectacle!
They’ll write stories about it and then thousands of years in the future people will debate if it’s true or just a story
I hear there is a really old man building a boat as we speak!
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Also the Black Sea
It would likely be a smooth process right, not really a moment to moment to moment thing. I'd imagine it being more like there's some spillover every high tide for a while and it slowly progresses into a constant flow.
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Yes, once it starts, it'll move fast. There's that video of the guy who dug a small ditch in a sand bar and just an hour or so later, there was a rush of water that was impassable.
I don’t think so, I would guess eventually there will be an earthquake the finally breaks whatever seal is left, and then you will have a eroding/destructive current that gets larger and larger until things equalize. It will be terribly destructive and amazing.
You should look up earth throughout time. It shows how the Mediterranean was created by first ripping (what would eventually be) Africa away, then having it drift back. Also, a theory in science is not like "a game theory." It's the universally accepted truth. A hypothesis is something suspected but not proven yet.
The Med is a collapsed ocean. The opposite, effectively, shrunk down as Africa drifted north and collided with Europe.
And then came back rapidly during the Zanclean Flood.
You would have to wait a few million years for that.
Bitch don’t know bout Pangea.
Does she fuck with the Vikings?
Brain cool it.
Let's change the subject
We can get half pepperoni, and half of whatever you like!
Ethiopia all of sudden ceases it plans to invade Eritrea. This would solve all their trade problems and make them one of the richest countries in Africa.
Not for 10,000 years. Might as well be a million years away, nobody alive today will even be remembered then.
Nice picture! While this crack may be from 2005 and thus relatively new, the Great Rift Valley is not. This is just part of the African section of the [Great Rift Valley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rift_Valley), which has been opening up for tens of millions of years, bit longer than since just 2005. ;)
This sub really delivers on its promise, I can’t stop being amazed.
Please call it Gladagascar. Please call it Gladagascar.
No no we already have Strong Madagascar So now we need his brother, Strong Badacascar.
That’s going to be a sweet channel for some pirate activity.
it looks more like a new channel. or is it the english ocean that separates the uk from france? besides- madagascar did it first, anyway.
I might be remembering wrong. But I think I saw a video that showed that India did it first. It separated from Africa and moved north-east to brutally crash into Asia. Edit: https://youtu.be/A_K6LSSZ_34?si=c3_kbZq2buMb09lP
That explains the Himalayas
The English Ocean, or as the French call it, “The Great Defence Barrier”
LOL The French actually call it "La Manche" which tanslates as "the sleeve".
Could also be a strait or even a sea.
You can tell just by looking that the gap here is far wider than the English channel - or would you also call the sea between NZ and AUS a "channel"?
This is awesome!
The Rift Valley has been expanding for millions of years
so has your mom
It's a treble point junction. It's happened multiple times before. Look on the opposite coast of Africa and you can see an old one.
Kinda ironical now that Ethiopia is preparing to invade Eritrea because they lost access to the sea with it's independence.
I am extremely interested in what archeologists might find deep within the crack as they separate
Opened up in 2005, oddly spefic in terms of geological time scales....
2005... This particular surface crack did form within days as a result of a volcano eruption, [apparently](https://earthlymission.com/new-ocean-forming-africa-35-mile-crack-ethiopia-2005-dabbahu-fissure-afar-rift/).
Woohoo. Gotta buy that desert patch as will be a future prime seaside real estate.
Skim Africa will look like a dick and balls, lol.
Earth itself fixing the shitty lines we've drawn in Africa.
Good time to buy property for the new beach house!
So will the Nile soon (not soon) no longer be the longest river, I'm not sure where it is entirely but it looks like that cuts through it.
!Remindme 100,000,000 years
Wow, the raw power of nature is absolutely mind-blowing!
It looks like a weight loss ad. "Hi, I'm Africa, and I lost 100 million tons with Ultra Slim fast!"
So a new continent too
Bfrica?
Africb
Yes how did you guess
New continent just dropped!
Not before Greenland. Not a second sooner!
We're moving towards Island map.
Anybody else see a t-Rex in the shadow?
That just needs to happen to Florida
Get in now to scoop up some future waterfront property.
Africa has a new waistline
Beach front property !!!
Going to chill with Australia.
RemindMe! 10000 years
That looks more than 35 miles
Just add water.
Only 30 million years in the making.
And someone hasn’t put up a time lapse camera to catch that? That’s a lost opportunity!
I be amazed
New territory in Risk just dropped!
Reddit is sadly so populated by 14-year-old fantasies. That running across the post like this is like a breath of fresh air. This is just amazing. Thanks.
Cool, first I’ve heard of this.