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Secessionists.

Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:17 PM

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But how much longer before they evolve their own, highly individualized fauna?

Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:21 PM

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Probably around the same time the intelligent designer decides to intelligently design some new fauna. Also, why new fauna and not new flora?

Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:27 PM

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She's hungry for some horizontally striped zebra.

Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:30 PM

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She's hungry for some horizontally striped zebra.

Euphemism?

Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:32 PM

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Zelda looks lonely.

Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:32 PM

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I believe there is some important history of our species that happened around the rift valley where this is now happening -- like IIRC speculation that the common ancestor of humans was isolated from the common ancestor of chimps by volcanic activity around there.

Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:37 PM

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Or maybe a quagga.

Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:37 PM

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8 to 4.

Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:38 PM

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like IIRC speculation

Note here that I almost certainly do not RC.

Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 1:38 PM

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8 works to 7, as well.

Damn quaggas.

Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:02 PM

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Rapid plate techtonics scare the bejeezus out of me. No talking about geology! Or dissertations!

Zebras are okay, though. Especially purply "zebras" with bulging heads.

Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:16 PM

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Isn't it "quaggae"?

Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:16 PM

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13 to 11

Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:20 PM

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meh... Madagascar did this 40 million years ago, no one's calling them a continent.

i am totally psyched for the Kenyan giant flightless birds that will no-doubt come as a result of this...

Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:24 PM

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Zebras are okay, though. Especially purply "zebras" with bulging heads.

Watch out for them. Like llamas, they spit when they get excited.

Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:28 PM

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My goodness.

Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:29 PM

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...although RTFA, it says that part of the Afar Triangle is sinking along with all of this activity. If this means the country with the most bootilicious name on earth is wiped off the map, I'll begin to question how intelligent that designer really is.

Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:31 PM

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One thing's for sure: all these earthquakes must be shaking Djibouti.

Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:32 PM

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And Djibouti? Second most bootilicious?

All this talk of plate tectonics—Josh Marshall batsignal?

More telegraphically now stop

Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:35 PM

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Tia: pwned.

Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:36 PM

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Rats no preview urg Tia bye now

Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:36 PM

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Standpipe, what is it about Josh Marshall and plate tectonics?

Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:37 PM

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I was not pwned! I was responding. SB was pwned.

Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:38 PM

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MUST TELEGRAPH CODE STOP GREEN MONKEY DAWN PURPLE STOP TRANSMISSION ELEPHANT STOP

Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:39 PM

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Djibouti was France's most obscure colonial war. A tiny war, but enough to seriously mess up the statistically-insignificant brother of a French woman I once knew.

Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 2:47 PM

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Re 1: Dreaming about New Madrid. Could be convenient fault lines following the Mississipi and Ohio rivers

Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 03-16-06 6:56 PM