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Scientists Discover Lost World (8,000 Years Old)
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| 2-15-2004
Posted on 02/15/2004 4:03:44 PM PST by blam
Scientists discover lost world
A prehistoric lost world under the North Sea has been mapped by scientists from the University of Birmingham. The team used earthquake data to devise a 3D reconstruction of the 10,000-year-old plain.
The area, part of a land mass that once joined Britain to northern Europe, disappeared about 8,000 years ago.
The virtual features they have developed include a river the length of the Thames which disappeared when its valley flooded due to glaciers melting.
This is the most exciting and challenging virtual reality project since Virtual Stonehenge.
Professor Bob Stone
Professor Bob Stone, head of the Department of Engineering's Human Interface Technology Team, said they were working to ensure the visual accuracy of the environment.
"This is the most exciting and challenging virtual reality project since Virtual Stonehenge in 1996.
"We are basing the computer-generated flora on pollen and plant traces extracted from geological core samples retrieved from the sea bed."
Dr Vincent Gaffney, director of the University's Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity and lead investigator on the project said they still had a lot of work to do.
"We intend to extend the project to visualise the whole of the now submerged land bridge that previously joined Britain to northern Europe as one land mass, providing scientists with a new insight into the previous human occupation of the North Sea."
TOPICS: News/Current Events
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To: MrsEmmaPeel
[he also wrote that women, if allowed to be educated could be every bit as equal as men]
No way! Plato didn't say that did he?
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posted on
02/15/2004 10:29:12 PM PST
by
jpsb
(Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
To: freebilly
Plato also wrote about the pleasures of gay sex. Of course he couldn't have been wrong about that.... I doubt anyone would seriously consider him wrong on that. If you were gay, I'm sure you would find gay sex very pleasurable.
Even if you were straight, I'm sure you'd get physical pleasure from a man performing, say, fellatio on you. That's why straight prisoners do it.
To: ChicagoHebrew
Even if you were straight, I'm sure you'd get physical pleasure from a man performing, say, fellatio on you. That's why straight prisoners do it.Formerly straight prisoners....
To: okie01
This finding seems to represent yet more evidence that sea level was once substantially lower than it is today. Sea levels derived from coral dieoff strata off the Pacific Coast near San Francisco.
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posted on
02/16/2004 12:14:56 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(A faith in Justice, none in "fairness")
To: freebilly
Plato also wrote about the pleasures of gay sex. He also thought it contrary to nature and outlawed it. See his Laws I, 636C, VIII, 836B-D, 837B-C, 838E, 840D-841E
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posted on
02/16/2004 1:17:43 AM PST
by
Dumb_Ox
To: freebilly
How does this explain Dems voting for JohnKerry...? See the "people are weird" portion of my statement.
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posted on
02/16/2004 2:47:49 AM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Don't try to tug at my heart strings. I have no heart and it will make me suspicious of your motives)
To: Fedora
"Blam, have you ever published anything?--I think you do some really good research, I'd like to see how you piece together all this information you've assembled." Thanks, I do it as a hobby. Writing is way to much work, lol.
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posted on
02/16/2004 5:56:44 AM PST
by
blam
To: Fedora
Made me smile to have someone actually comment on it and not make fun of me! LOL!!
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posted on
02/16/2004 5:58:44 AM PST
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: blam
Geez, the media even spins this. It's not a "world", it's a land mass. It didn't "disappear", it was merely submerged.
To: Amelia
Yeah, it's gonna be flooded with tourists now. ;-)
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posted on
02/16/2004 7:12:38 AM PST
by
Scenic Sounds
(Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
To: blam
> Thanks, I do it as a hobby. Writing is way to much work, lol.
That it is, LOL!
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posted on
02/16/2004 9:41:24 AM PST
by
Fedora
To: 2Jedismom
> Made me smile to have someone actually comment on it and not make fun of me! LOL!!
I'm in no position to make fun of anyone on that subject, LOL! I just want to know what happened to the old "New Zealander Builds Hobbit Hole" thread. I was surprised nobody bumped that when the new movie came out--I was tempted :)
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posted on
02/16/2004 9:47:52 AM PST
by
Fedora
To: Dumb_Ox
Plato also wrote about the pleasures of gay sex. >>He also thought it contrary to nature and outlawed it. See his Laws I, 636C, VIII, 836B-D, 837B-C, 838E, 840D-841E<<
He flip flopped on his position? John Kerry must have read lots of Plato....
To: Fedora
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posted on
02/16/2004 9:56:18 AM PST
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: muawiyah
the Hindu epic of Ma-Nuh, also known as Noah.<> They had a wild ride. The flooding was apparently sudden and a tidal wave swept pretty far inland. The Black Sea flooding might have been at the same time, but the flooding was probably due to one of the glacial lake collapses. Sea level would have risen 200-400 feet in a couple days, worldwide. The locals in Pakistan and Afghanistan know they are standing on ancient land, but they may not realize how ancient.
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posted on
02/16/2004 9:58:42 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: blam
The farm that my father grew up on and which is still owned by our family falls in the Lake Agassiz lake bed and is part of the Red River flood plane. As you sit in the farm yard and looked South East you can see a ridge of low mountains, more like hills that we always referred to as the 'blue hills' and my Grand Mother in her 90's refers to as the 'shore of 'Lake Agassi'... Some of the most fertile farm land in the area resides in this flood plane.
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posted on
02/16/2004 10:03:12 AM PST
by
in the Arena
(1st Lt. James W. Herrick, Jr., - MIA - Laos - 27 October 69 "Fire Fly 33")
To: 2Jedismom
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posted on
02/16/2004 10:50:18 AM PST
by
Fedora
To: Ophiucus
Careful - that will get you slammed with the "heretic" and "blasphemer" label in some threads.
{holding hands over ears} "The world's only 6,000 years old, nah nah nah, I can't hear you..."
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posted on
02/16/2004 10:54:43 AM PST
by
Jim Cane
To: RightWhale
" Sea level would have risen 200-400 feet in a couple days, worldwide. " I think that is to much rise just for the collapse of the dams holding Lake Agassiz. It was only a 300-500 ft rise for all the ice melting. There were probably a lot of ice bergs crashing into the sea that caused some tsunamis in that period too. (...and , earthquakes, undersea landslides and volcanos)
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posted on
02/16/2004 11:52:34 AM PST
by
blam
To: RightWhale
You have to go all the way back to 14,000 BCE to get really good glacial lake flooding. My favorite is the glacial lake that existed around the perimeter of Antarctica.
When that one cut loose it should have formed a massive bole (or standing wave) that would ride as high as any mountains at the shoreline, and sweep up from the South throughout most of the Northern hemisphere.
This could explain the why-fors of the Cheetah which lives only in the Southern hemisphere.
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posted on
02/16/2004 2:25:19 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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