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Scientists stunned to discover oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years
NBC news ^ | 4th of July 2024 | Ap

Posted on 07/06/2024 6:36:48 PM PDT by Cronos

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To: Cronos

Nama quala lama land. Where the ancient termites roam.

Oh give me a home, where them termites do roam and the beer and the cantaloupe play 🎶


21 posted on 07/06/2024 9:57:44 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks Cronos.

22 posted on 07/07/2024 12:24:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: skr
Air pockets maybe? When termite hills get flooded, they have to survive until the water recedes. They apparently can be underwater for about a day before drowning. As to Noah’s flood, God would’ve provided for all the creatures who could survive without the ark.

The article doesn't say that the mound has been continually inhabited for 34,000 years.

The solution is that all the termites not onboard the Ark were drowned, but that the mound survived, and was subsequently re-populated.

Sheesh!

Regards,

23 posted on 07/07/2024 1:11:40 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: samiam5

Guess I’d have to say, 2 of each species?
Thanks for the laugh, still chuckling at that response!


24 posted on 07/07/2024 4:04:10 AM PDT by Dad was my hero
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To: Tucker39

That’s also what first came to mind.

But whether or not one believes is floods and other disasters is really not part of the issue.

The issue here is discovered by scientists. The breed of scientists today are of the glowbull warming and COVID type and their credibility is aligned with the propaganda division of the rat party.

In other words, I do not believe it.


25 posted on 07/07/2024 5:47:30 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: MinorityRepublican

I take the account of Noah’s ark literally.
I find it the most reasonable explanation of what we observe today.
It explains not only the speciation we see, but also geology and weather.


26 posted on 07/07/2024 11:00:22 AM PDT by samiam5
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To: Cronos; SunkenCiv

Well I for one welcome our termite overlords..........


27 posted on 07/07/2024 1:16:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yes, I believe in the Word of God. Noah was real, we all are related to him through his sons and their wives. Water was high enough for marine life fossils to be found at high altitudes on the American continent, so that seems to indicate that seawater put them there. Of course, I can only guess from what I’ve learned from others. It was not my field of study in college.


28 posted on 07/08/2024 12:29:11 AM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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There are many similarities to the floods in Noah's Ark and Epic of Gilgamesh.
29 posted on 07/08/2024 2:14:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Man, that’s a lot of termite rings to count.

Three rings for the Elven kings under the sky
Seven rings for the Dwarf lords in their halls of stone
Nine rings for Men who above all else desire power
And 34,000 rings for termites. Just because.

30 posted on 07/08/2024 2:19:05 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: MinorityRepublican; skr

There are over 200 flood legends worldwide. That’s a lot of different cultures passing down the same, or similar stories.


31 posted on 07/08/2024 2:27:52 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: MinorityRepublican

How long can you tread water?


32 posted on 07/08/2024 2:29:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: samiam5
There are over 200 flood legends worldwide. That’s a lot of different cultures passing down the same, or similar stories.

Of course, there was a huge flood in the past. First civilizations were founded in a River Valley. So naturally, all of them had a "great flood story".

Also, the Nile River flooded annually between May and September from ancient Egypt until the 20th century when dams were built.

33 posted on 07/08/2024 2:38:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yes, but the river flooding doesn’t generate a world wide flood story, it generates a springtime flood story.
One family surviving on a boat with a bunch of animals has been passed down worldwide.


34 posted on 07/08/2024 2:44:23 PM PDT by samiam5
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Yes, but the river flooding doesn’t generate a world wide flood story

All we know is that first civilizations were built near rivers. And at the time, there were no ships that were ocean worthy.

35 posted on 07/08/2024 2:54:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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How do we know there were no ocean worthy vessels?
I would say there was probably no river flooding before it ever rained.


36 posted on 07/08/2024 3:17:25 PM PDT by samiam5
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