What if you were swimming in themiddle of the Atlantic Ocean? Could you still find your way home?

假如你正在大西洋海域游泳？你能找到回家的路么？

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If that happens, slab pull could draw the oceanic crust under the continent, actually causing the Americas to move eastward toward Europe and the ocean floor to get smaller.

若果真如此，岩板拉力会将海洋地壳拖拽到大陆之下，实际上会使美洲大陆向东移动靠近欧洲，海床也会缩小。

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Second, Noah lived hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. Even if he could learn to build a ship, how would he get it to water?

第二，挪亚居住的地方与海洋相距十万八千里，就算他晓得怎样造大船，他又该怎么把大船拉到水中？

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If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

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So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean but we'd still have to explain the land blip.

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If you just stirred the ocean more, you could absorb the excess CO2 and keep the planet cold.

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The New York Times recently pointed out that if the vessel breaks apart in the ocean it could send thousands of plastic bottles into the ocean.

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