New island appears off coast of Germany

The land is rising! Global warming! Ahhhhhhh!!

Cool thread

Originally posted by SolidGoal
"25 football pitches" ???
What the hell is that ?
Anyone care to translate this into useful units of measure ?
Like beard/seconds or square barns ?


Sorry for my non-collaborative post, but I had to get this off my chest.

But back on topic, like you said OP, it is quite interesting and unusual.

Canada eh??Yea they could have use a usful measurement like Rods.

I'm booking a flight now.I've got to stick a flag in it and make a claim before the yank's get there and build a missile defense system.

Beard? Whut?

Ok, very nice OP thank you. BP will be on it before you can say 'price hike'.

I planted a flag and declared it my island, no rules on the island, except the crazy rules from the tv show lost of course

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Arbitrary?

Outside of North America, Football (Soccer) is the most popular sport on the planet. If anyone can relate to a measurement, it is of a Football pitch.

If someone named Lex Luthor tries to sell you prime real estate there, you should probably be leery.
S&F

Originally posted by PutAQuarterIn
If someone named Lex Luthor tries to sell you prime real estate there, you should probably be leery.
S&F

edit on 12-1-2013 by PutAQuarterIn because: OP deserves to know I gave him a S&F, damnit

At the very least daintily frugal.

Well, I just rowed out there the other day to have a look....

A very large man with long curly hair was sitting on the shore, eating a bucket of chicken. He seemed to be holding a piece out to me when he turned and spoke to someone only he could see, just before there was a bright flash of light and I was suddenly alone in the surf.

I decided to retreat, when I noticed a column of black smoke rising from the far side...hopefully I wasn't followed.

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Arbitrary ? Yes absolutely.

Media in the UK also use the football pitch as a unit of length, although an area of the association football pitch is not fixed, but varies within a limit of 90–120 m (98–130 yd) in length and 45–90 m (50–100 yd) in width.

So why not use a unit of measure that the rest of the planet can relate to ? Like I don't know, a meter ?

Nothing personal here. I am equally annoyed when the American media uses the football field unit and whatnot.

Cheers.

Originally posted by winterkill

An island the size of 25 football pitches has appeared seemingly out of nowhere off the coast of Germany. The landmass, which is composed of sandbanks, gradually emerged from the violent waters of the North Sea over the past few years. It lies 15 miles off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany’s far north in a stretch of coastline known as the Wattenmeer, a marine national park. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk... Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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It is the first time in a quarter of a century that a discernible landmass has appeared in the coastal waters off Germany.
Detlef Hansen, head of the national park, said; 'This is for us conservationists anything but ordinary.'
Tidal actions unrelated to global warming or other earthly phenomena have created the island.
Thought this was an interesting article to look at how an island appears and develops over time.
Most interesting and quite unusual.

 

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Ohhh mainstream media.. we hate you when it's convenient and love you when it's also convenient.

Pick a side ppl, stop being hypocrites.

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Lol!!! Or another guatanamo

Originally posted by tehdouglas
The land is rising! Global warming! Ahhhhhhh!!

Cool thread

next it will be global leaking.

This took me by surprise i thought islands were disappearing due to rising sea levels :O

Nice thread.SnF

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Pretty incredible, thanks for posting this up!
S & F

Wait, Germany has a coast? .......................... Google maps = yeah it does Just below Denmark. So if you asked me to guess if Germany had a coast I would have said no, I just have the vision of Euro countries surrounding it without a coast.

So indeed this post is useless and you have just wasted your time reading it........................................... still reading? Really wasting time now................

Want a beer?

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Holland is having a problem with that. The sea currents have changed and are removing the shore line which is hammering at the dikes. If the dikes ever went, so goes lots of Holland.

Originally posted by lcbjr1979
I wonder if there is a guy in a hatch pushing a button every 108 minutes on that island.

Best comment ever

Reminds me how awesome that show was and much I miss it.