Okay, it's not Charlie Weis. But it's pretty weird.Hidden beneath the U.S. West's Great Basin, scientists have spied a giant blob of rocky material dripping like honey.
The Great Basin consists of small mountain ranges separated by valleys and includes most of Nevada, the western half of Utah and portions of other nearby states.
How do you find a giant blob of rocky material though? Do they drill into the ground? Radar or Sonar the area? I remember the time Casey thought he had found a giant blob from underground and it turned out to be dog crap.Here's how it works: "The Earth's mantle, which lies below the thin outer crust we live on, consists of rock which deforms plastically on very long time scales due to the heat and pressure at depth," West said. "In any material which can flow (including the mantle), a heavy object will tend to sink through lighter material."
And this is what the scientists think is happening with the lithospheric drip. A region of heavier material trapped in the lithosphere gets warmed up and begins to sink into the lighter, less dense mantle beneath, pulling a long tail of material after it.
To me, this thing sounds pretty sinister. Like all of a sudden this blob with start trying to communicate with Humpback Whales and in the process destroy the Human Race....the blob is between about 30 miles and 60 miles in diameter (between 50 km and 100 km) and extends from a depth of about 47 miles to at least 310 miles (75 km to 500 km) beneath Earth's surface.
I'm dumb, so I still really don't know what they're talking about. Sounds like something from a bad movie. And if we know anything about bad movies, the ginger always dies first. So I'm not moving to Nevada. Unless it's Vegas. Then I don't care if a blob kills me. Because I'll be high rolling.
