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Archaeologists Announce Discovery Of Underwater Man-Made Wall (Very Old)
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| 11-26-2002
Posted on 11/26/2002 7:57:18 AM PST by blam
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To: aristeides
"Isn't that underwater temple that was found off India also supposed to be thousands of years old. Yup. I thought I had it bookmarked but could not find it.
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posted on
11/26/2002 8:54:50 AM PST
by
blam
To: aristeides
Maybe old structures survive longer underwater because they're no longer subject to disruption by later people?
...and climatic erosion...
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posted on
11/26/2002 8:56:35 AM PST
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Vidalia
To: ClearCase_guy
Cthulhu bump.Big fat Lovecraft bump!
To: Vidalia
"A severe revision (based on facts) of civilization as we know it may be in the workings in the next 25 - 30 years..." Count on it. The 'out of Africa' theory will come under assault also.
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posted on
11/26/2002 8:57:03 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
The "out of Africa" theory is so politically correct.
To: billybudd
Oh don't be silly. The world was created from materials much older than that--and then during the creation the fossils and walls were put in place--just to keep testing we heretics.
To: aristeides
The "out of Africa" theory is so politically correct.
Especially when considering where the AIDS VIRUS originated...
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posted on
11/26/2002 9:00:33 AM PST
by
Vidalia
To: blam
Did someone say "time travel?"
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posted on
11/26/2002 9:05:08 AM PST
by
mhking
To: ClearCase_guy
Cthulhu bump. And a Yob-Sodoff bump back to you!
;-)
To: blam
If it was flooded by one of the three major glacial lake outpourings, the sea level would have risen abruptly in a week or two. Not much time to lay sandbags.
To: blam
No doubt a direct result of failing to ratify the Kyoto Treaty on greenhouse gas emissions.
To: johnny7
If it's the people, send shovels. If it's the army, send screen doors.
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posted on
11/26/2002 9:11:56 AM PST
by
Gumlegs
To: r9etb
I suspect one major reason has to do with the fact that archaelogy started in, and was focused on, the roots of western civilization, which pretty much means it took place in the neighborhood of the Mediterranean. I think that's true to some extent. Also, don't underestimate the impact of politics. From the beginning of WWII until the end of the Cold War, approximtely 50 years, technology like satellites and underwater gear were being developed that makes these new theories possible. Yet during the same time vast areas of the globe were out-of-bounds for archaeological research.
Simultaneously, the politically correct 'out-of-Africa' theory was being hatched. Most tenured American archaeologists were blindered by the 'religion' of certain prevailing belief models that prevented them from considering any evidence that went counter to their credo. I don't personally presume to say whether that credo is right or wrong, but real evidence has a way of not going away (unless it can be be destroyed for political reasons as in the attempts on the remains of Kennewick Man). A whole lot of interesting evidence is beginning to pile up, and if the archaeologists in the old guard don't deal with it, a new generation will.
To: blam
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posted on
11/26/2002 9:19:46 AM PST
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JmyBryan
To: Bernard Marx
>Most tenured American archaeologists were blindered by the 'religion' of certain prevailing belief models that prevented them from considering any evidence that went counter to their credo.
That nicely worded statement fits a thousand different historical / archeological situations. It also applies perfectly to THIS ONE.
To: Jonah Hex
Also found where curious, desktop looking PC type objects with this odd mark engraved on the front:
To: JmyBryan
Nice link. The underwater 'thing' at Graham's site is off the coast of Okinawa and would have been above water level at the end of the last Ice Age ... and it is conjectured that the site was a ruin even before it became a sumberged site, covered by the rising waters of the ice age ending.
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posted on
11/26/2002 9:28:00 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
To: Jonah Hex
Cthulhu bit my sister, then stole my cheese!
To: blam; Naked Lunch
bump
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posted on
11/26/2002 9:38:49 AM PST
by
maro
To: poindexters brother
Ive heard that evidence has been found that a Kyoto like treaty was in place. The big problem seemed to be compliance in that it was so hard to get the gas containment units on the back ends of those wild bean eating mastodons...
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