[okie01]

Which means this system was in fact providing food for an average of about 5 Billion people.

Not to mention it supposedly held 5 trillion cubic feet of water. That's equivalent to 36 Baltic Seas or one-fifth of the Mediterranean.

Given its location -- on the West Coast o Africa, north of the Kalihari -- where the hell did all that water come from?

[skeeter]

Not to mention it supposedly held 5 trillion cubic feet of water. That's equivalent to 36 Baltic Seas or one-fifth of the Mediterranean.

Thats what I thought.

You'd really have to 'want to believe' to overlook that little factoid.

[smokingfrog]

The Makgadikgadi Pan, a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland, but dried up several thousand years ago.