I'm not quite sure what that title means but I just thought it sounded funny. If I really think about it, I think it is an attempt to overthrow the men and women who are "missonary for life" - a term I coined in the warm embrace of highschool pubescence meaning "someone who will always and eternally only have sex in the missionary position."
However, that really isn't the point of this little entry o' mine. It's just an entry point to the entry. Ha! Mind boggling, I know.
Sometimes, writing is hard. We all know that. And it can be painful. Like the sexual proclivities of the masses. So this was what I was going through, as evidenced by witnessing this chat transcript. You can almost hear my tortured soul crying out for help, searching for a friend, a shoulder to support my crumbling weight, and all I get is "D." He/she can't bear the weight, just look:
me: i can't think of something to rant about
D: how about grad school
and how you're not in it
how about small apples
can't stand small apples
or even worse, small oranges
like clementines?
why they gotta be sold in crates, i can't eat that many
And that orange webbing they put on it? misleading!
makes the oranges look really good but they don't really
although i guess you can make neat arts and crafts out of them
me: hmm
nah.
hmm
something. i need to do some research for topics.
D:I hate you
you're stupid
small oranges are super stupid
ok i guess i don't really hate you
i just hate small oranges
why do they have to taste so good?
me: i think i should just post your rant.
Dennis: I think you should reveal small oranges as the bitches they are.
So I am not going to talk about oranges or clementines but I will say that they are quite tasty and peel very easily, which in this day in age is highly necessary. Tell all the people having unsafe sex that a South African man has developed a condom that you can slip on in merely seconds - for you shooters in the express lane of life.
But, now that I have made this entire entry into a convoluted examination of life and love at large, I will swing it back to what I love most:
"UK Scientists to examine undersea "open wound" in Earth's crust."
(If you don't get the reference then we need to have a talk.)
A team of British scientists has set sail on a voyage to examine why a huge chunk of the earth's crust is missing, deep under the Atlantic Ocean -- a phenomenon that challenges conventional ideas about how the earth works.
The 20-strong team aims to survey an area some 3,000 to 4,000 metres deep where the mantle -- the deep interior of the earth normally covered by a crust kilometres thick -- is exposed on the sea floor.
Experts describe the hole along the mid-Atlantic ridge as an "open wound" on the ocean floor that has puzzled scientists for the five or so years that its existence has been known because it defies existing tectonic plate theories of evolution.
"We know so little about it," said Bramley Murton, a senior research scientist at Southampton's National Oceanography Center.
"It's a real challenge to our established understanding of what the earth's surface looks like underneath the waves," he told Reuters by telephone from the brand new, hi-tech British research ship RRS James Cook.
Mid ocean ridges are places where new oceanic crust is born, with red-hot lava spewing out along the seafloor.
What scientists are keen to know is whether the crust was ripped away by huge geological faults, or whether it never even developed in the first place.
The primary motivation for the project was to understand how the earth continues to evolve.
"The area that we are looking at is part of a mountain range that spans thousands of square kilometres, but we are beginning to realize that there are probably millions of square kilometres where the ocean floor is missing," Murton said.
The six week mission, led by geophysicist Roger Searle of Durham University and Chris MacLeod of Cardiff University's School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, will recover sample cores of rock by drilling into the mantle using a rig lowered on to the sea floor.
Asked if the discovery posed a threat to the environment, Murton replied: "It's not problematic for the earth because it is a natural earth process -- but in terms of knowing how the earth works and how the world is put together it is important."
Murton also said the expedition would shed light on the composition of sea water amongst other initiatives.
Crust formation is a fundamental mechanism of the earth which affects the chemistry of the world's oceans.
20 men plunging into the deep dark secrets locked in an open wound underwater.
I smell a movie. One of those you can watch in a booth in five minute intervals for a quarter.
Not that I would know.
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