NationStates Jolt Archive

It's no joke...check out this link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6584011.stm) from the BBC. Makes me wonder what someone exploring the sea floor centuries from now will find.

Goatse statues.

Probabily a lot of buildings.

There are islands been swalowed by the sea right now.

Lost world discovered under the North Sea

Oh, that's mine. I was wondering where it was. Thanks for getting that back to me.

maybe the right was right and its the lost city of Atlantis! (long since destroyed by immigration) :eek:

I will remember to not build my homestead on sandy ground near water.

that "homestead" looks kinda like somewhere in Second Life.

that "homestead" looks kinda like somewhere in Second Life.

So it was a lost civilization fraught with rapists!??!

The mapping of this landscape could also raise questions about its preservation, says Professor Gaffney - and how it can be protected from activities such as pipe-laying and the building of wind farms.
Waaaaah?

Waaaaah?

Would you want people growing wind on a valuable historic site?

Waaaaah?

underwater wind farms? maybe?

Fish never spit into the wind.

This is the idea. Everyone knows wind grows under the sea...duuuh.:p
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/assets/images/story/2005/6/1/1332_Arklow_pink.jpg

that's pretty awesome that they can map it like that.

This is the idea. Everyone knows wind grows under the sea...duuuh.:p
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/assets/images/story/2005/6/1/1332_Arklow_pink.jpg

Ah...that's kinda cool, actually. Didn't know they did it.

http://www.circa1973.net/bossanova/linkable/sleestacks.gif

Kevin Costner's Summer home.:D

maybe the right was right and its the lost city of Atlantis! (long since destroyed by immigration) :eek:

Lol, kudos for wit to you Call to Power!

http://www.circa1973.net/bossanova/linkable/sleestacks.gif

Great. Just great.

I suppose I can call you in the middle of the night when I wake up screaming from a nightmare I haven't had in years?

"It would be a mistake to think that these people were unsophisticated or without culture... they would have had names for the rivers and hills and spiritual associations - it would have been a catastrophic loss," says Professor Gaffney.

yes. a catastrophe... 4000 years in the making.

second only to Jurassic Park, a catastrophe 65 million years in the making.

http://www.circa1973.net/bossanova/linkable/sleestacks.gif

LOL, Land of the Lost. Most of the NSer's posting today were born after that gem of a show was off the air.

Great. Just great.

I suppose I can call you in the middle of the night when I wake up screaming from a nightmare I haven't had in years?

My brother use to have nightmares about sleestacks. Damn I miss the good old days.

My brother use to have nightmares about sleestacks. Damn I miss the good old days.

That was some freaky ass shit to wake up to on a Saturday morning.

That was some freaky ass shit to wake up to on a Saturday morning.

Gotta love those pylons. I want one. :D

R'lyeh is rising! The great Cthulhu has come to devour us all! Iä Iä Cthulhu Fhtagn...

http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/WEBIMAGES/GUEST/122935.gif

lost city of Atlantis!

Actually, there are stories about sunken cities and Great Floods everywhere. Looks like the end of the latest Ice Age has brought some heavy changes to the world.
In the Ice Age, the northern half of the Adriatic sea was just the terminal part of the Po Valley; the Black Sea was very likely a grassy plain, etc etc.

On the other side, I thought that the myth of Atlantis was linked to the volcanic explosion of the island of Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean - the subsequent tsunamis and earthquakes led to the downfall of the Minoic civilisation of Crete.

Nice to see my university in the news :)

Actually, there are stories about sunken cities and Great Floods everywhere. Looks like the end of the latest Ice Age has brought some heavy changes to the world.
In the Ice Age, the northern half of the Adriatic sea was just the terminal part of the Po Valley; the Black Sea was very likely a grassy plain, etc etc.

Which would account for the flood stories in the Bible.


On the other side, I thought that the myth of Atlantis was linked to the volcanic explosion of the island of Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean - the subsequent tsunamis and earthquakes led to the downfall of the Minoic civilisation of Crete.

Many people believe that.:)

Very cool, but £10 says that some Creationist website will be referencing it as proof of the flood by the end of the week. :p

I'm sure if they look again they will see that the tide merely went out and they are looking at Middlesborough. It can be confused with a prehistoric civilization sometimes.

LOL, Land of the Lost. Most of the NSer's posting today were born after that gem of a show was off the air.

I loved that show. Wasn't as good after they had to switch the original "dad" actor, though.

What amuses me about this story is the need to "protect" this area. I mean, sure, do a few digs, recover any artifacts if we can. BUT IT'S A FRIGGIN' SEABED, FOR GRODD'S SAKE! Make the maps, work out what it looked like, learn what we can, but there's really nothing left to protect!

Which would account for the flood stories in the Bible.
As well as in practically every other ancient culture.

Which would account for the flood stories in the Bible.

the bible's flood story is far too young

the bible's flood story is far too young

In terms of when it was written down, true, but it likely existed as an oral tradition for who knows how long previous to that.

R'lyeh is rising! The great Cthulhu has come to devour us all! Iä Iä Cthulhu Fhtagn...

http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/WEBIMAGES/GUEST/122935.gif
Awesome:D

Which would account for the flood stories in the Bible.No. The biblical flood happened around 3113 BCE, and although it was not limited to the Mesopotamian basin, the pre-biblical story about it originated from there.

Very interesting, I wonder what they'll find down there.