Giant blob found deep beneath Nevada – msnbc.com — The number of jokes that can be written around this discovery can surpass perhaps any event over the past 100 yers. I’ll relent, for now. That said, here is the structure of a good one to throw at your enemies: “Really? I thought the lithospheric drip was *add name*.”

While studying the area, John West of Arizona State University and his colleagues found evidence of a large cylindrical blob of cold material far below the surface of central Nevada. Comparison of the results with CAT scans of the inside of Earth taken by ASU’s Jeff Roth suggested they had found a so-called lithospheric drip.