"Douglas" wrote in message
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Tim Challenger Wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:40:51 +0000 (UTC), Mike wrote:

And what would you suggest that "they" do? Get a couple of big sticks
and
prop it up? You'd need a lot of string and blu-tac to hold back 500
billion
tons of rock.

Tim C.

Don't be so silly!

What you need is one giant elastic band, placed round the island to
hold it together.
Then you can start to superglue it.



Or you could build a giant sea wall/dam around the island and pump out all
the water so there's no giant splash if/when the chunk falls off :-)