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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:32 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] East African Rift Valley again<BR></FONT><BR>On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Jeff Davis <<A href="mailto:jrd1415@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:jrd1415@gmail.com">jrd1415@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> Bit of trivia here. Some years ago, I encountered the notion of a<BR>>
canal from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea.<BR><BR>I think this is a great idea. It would be interesting to see what it<BR>did to climate models of course... and if it made Iran drier, it could<BR>lead to more political problems. But the first problem I see with it<BR>is that a number of fundamentalist Christians would see it as a<BR>fulfillment of prophecy... and that might cause some real problems.<BR><BR>-Kelly<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>