Jungle-Covered Ruins May Hold Surprising Hints (article)

Institute for Creation Research ^ | June 6:24, 2013 | Brian Thomas

[SamuraiScot]

there are cities that were around then still in use and populated to this day and yet, a hand-full had everyone and everything leave

Now that you mention it, Rome was depopulated for a long time (except for the cats!) after the decline of the Empire, and the Alhambra in Spain, which is the size of a town, was uninhabited except for a few squatters until Washington Irving got people interested in restoring it in the 19th century.

[blueunicorn6]

It’s happening in Detroit right now.

[Onelifetogive]

"Why would an intact city simply be vacated by everyone, all creatures, etc and left so long as to be covered by plants and simply disappear into history?"

There is a term for it, it's called "Detroitification."

[jonno]

J f’n K reference?

[edwinland]

Excellent reference!

[marktwain]

Also, there is the minor problem of stegosaurs being extinct for 140 million years.

That is not really much of a problem. There is no question that the fossil record is extremely incomplete. It would only make sense that we would not find fossils of rare species. Nothing in the drawing shows how large the animal was, and we know that some reptiles survived the dinosaur era.

[Oberon]

They all retired and moved to Ft. Lauderdale.

[JoeFromSidney]

I find this interesting for a totally unrelated reason. Back during the Vietnam War I was involved in a project to "see through" the jungle canopy. The idea was to take photographs from multiple angles, then use the same math as is used in Computed Tomography to "reconstruct" what was under the canopy. We couldn't get it to work, for a variety of reasons.

LIDAR is an entirely different approach. The LIDAR pulse will be scattered by the canopy, and the pulse reflected from below the canopy will be further scattered, but so long as there is enough energy getting back to the LIDAR, the same processing as is used in RADAR will give an image of what's under the canopy. The image will be somewhat blurred because the scattering will give multiple echoes from the same object, but apparently it's good enough to locate a temple.

What this means is that from now on, jungle or forest canopies will not suffice to hide insurgents, cocaine laboratories, or moonshiners. Get used to having your concealment stripped away.

[Hostage]

Mutant Teenage Ninja Stegosaurs.