Archaeologists Unearth 1,700 Year-Old Canal System Near Lake Okeechobee (Florida)

Sun- Sentinel ^ | 6-6-2002 | Rhonda Miller

[blam]

"One would speculate that they were part of the same event; i.e., that the Black Sea flooded as a part of some larger phenomenon; your impact in the Shaat al Arab aera for example."

Yup, my mind has already 'darted' over to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf because the Red Sea was land-locked and the Persian Gulf was completely dry during the last Ice Age. (They do mention flooding in the impact article too)

[LostTribe]

We were (and are) still coming off the same Ice Age. May well have been more than one flood.

For example, The Columbia river in the west which passes through Portland had multiple MASSIVE floods in it's history. Each easily flooded the entire Willamette valley and much of the NW Columbia basin while ripping out what is now the Columbia river route.

[blam]

"For example, The Columbia river in the west which passes through Portland had multiple MASSIVE floods in it's history. Each easily flooded the entire Willamette valley and much of the NW Columbia basin while ripping out what is now the Columbia river route."

Yup, some kind of ice dam of a huge lake over in that region. (i've read)

[LostTribe]

>Yup, some kind of ice dam of a huge lake over in that region. (i've read)

I need to pull out those details again. They are truly impressive. Repeated ice dams in Montana that broke, I think, and the boulder strewn floods that ripped down the Columbia river passage and ground out the channels through the Cascade mountain gorges is stunning in it's sheer violence. The water was something like 500' deep(don't quote me) when it roared through what is now Portland Oregon on it's way to the Pacific.

[LostTribe]

Here's one description of the events:

          Did you know that the largest floods to occur on the planet happened here? During the last ice age, ice sheets covered much of Canada. One lobe of ice grew southward, blocking the Clark Fork Valley in Idaho.

         This 2,000 foot (600 meters) high ice dam blocked the river, creating a lake that stretched for hundreds of miles. When the lake was full, it contained 600 cubic miles (2,500 cubic kilometers) of water. How much is that? Imagine a block of water a mile high (as high as the mountains around Bonneville Dam), a mile wide, and stretching from Bonneville Dam to San Francisco!

         Eventually, water traveled under the ice dam. The water drained out of the lake in two or three days, flooding eastern Washington. The flood, moving up to sixty miles per hour, scoured out hundreds of miles of canyons called coulees, created the largest waterfall to ever exist, and left 300 foot (90 meter) high gravel bars. At Bonneville, the water crested at 650 feet (200 meters). If you look on the cliffs southeast of the dam, you will see a transmission tower (the one with three poles) that is 200 feet (60 meters) above the high water mark.

         During a period of 2,500 years as many as 100 of these floods scoured the Gorge.

[SunkenCiv]

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[rwfromkansas]

Actually, many American Indians, contrary to popular belief, did run their environment.

[Pharmboy]

Wow...that's a blast from the past. Well, their ancestors certainly hunted the sabre tooth tiger to extinction, along with other large north American mammals. You probably know more than me about it.

They helped decimate the buffalo herds, didn't they?

[rwfromkansas]

Exactly. Contrary to pop belief again, the buffalo would have been gone eventually due to the Natives.

Now, we didn't help matters and sped up the bison extinction, but still.

Out in the southwest, there are pueblos, and the Anacazi or whatever they were called around 1000 years ago actually had to leave their initial homeland because they were burning down all the forest etc.

[SunkenCiv]

This Blam topic is worth another ping, despite its age (2002).

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[blam]

"Do you have an estimated date for the destruction of Sodom and Gamorrah?"

Four years late but I think it was probably part of a asteroid/comet 'swarm' that caused this:

Disaster That Struck The Ancients

Btw, this event is recorded in the tree-rings worldwide.

[RightWhale]

The Sodom and Gomorrah story is very common all over the ME, the names of the cities being different from region to region. The actual event, if there was one, could be anywhere from Egypt to India.

[ASA Vet]

You don't need a ping list.
True Blam fans just go to your profile page and click on "in forum" every few minutes.

[blam]

"You don't need a ping list."
"True Blam fans just go to your profile page and click on "in forum" every few minutes."

What a fan, thanks.

[S0122017]

What would really be amusing would be to find out that the interjection of Indo/European/Babylonian paganism (note the similarities in glyphs, architecture, and rites) led to gradual population decline, much as we see in the counter-JudeoChristian amoral eco-culture today.

hilarious

[S0122017]

SCIENTISTS have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago.

Now THAT is interesting.

[S0122017]

As I understand it, Gilgamesh is the same individual as Noah.

You understand wrong or are confused with Utnapistim.

[A CA Guy]

You can tell if there were Democrats running the canal if they found a toll both at either end.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Any chads show up in the excavation?

No, but I hear some ballot boxes turned up at the recent Hoffa dig...

[S0122017]

Atlantis is not on Antarctica dude. That was just some stupid nazi myth. They needed to think of an excuse how a magic realm of white people close to actual white people could possibly exist anywhere on the planet, so they pointed to the one spot where nobody could check their retard theory anyway. The also claimed that there was a gateway to the inner earth where the inner earth white people lived was located on Antarctica.

The presence of Inuit was simply dismissed as being newcomers and parasites (living freely of the ice the atlanteans worked for so hard! the bastards!)

I know simple associations (A-tlantis, A-ntarctica, both starting with an A!) must sound really convincing at first sight, but plz. Even Plato didn't locate it there.