Posted on 12/10/2010 1:18:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Damned prehistoric SUVs.
It’s not science when it say’s “may have”.
Pretty cool they could live under water and all. Maybe early humans had lungs with gill properties
Maybe their island tipped over...
It could happen. Look at Guam. No, wait...
Therte are a LOT of ancient cities under the waves as the sea level was far lower during the last ice age. If we have another ice age we may re-discover and have to re-define the history of humanity.
It still is....it’s called HELL
I disagree with your concept that the seas have risen.
The land rises and falls, and very unevenly , I might add.
Water, being 'fluid', simply flows to the lowest spot (because of gravity), and maintains a very smooth/flat surface.
It is the land moving up or down that makes water appear to be rising or falling.
The 'tides' are one of the few examples of the ocean level actually rising or falling. Even in that example, the land also rises and falls with the tides.
Yes, land can rise and fall based on tectonics or compression/decompression by massive glaciation. The great lakes are an example where the crust was compressed by the massive mile high glacier that covered the area and since the retreat of the glacier the land has been rising (decompressing) albeit very slowly. Glaciers are still one of the primary reasons for lowered sea/water levels because the water increasingly becomes bound up as ice as the glacier grows.
Ahem, ice age, glaciers covered a great deal of the land masses and were a mile deep. That’s a lot of melting water.
There are large land masses that are now under the oceans but which were dry land for long periods in the past. Humans spread to England, Australia, America and Southeast Asia using these areas. Underwater villages have been found near India and England among other places. Why not explore the Gulf?
Glaciers. Yep. They still do cover a great deal of land mass, and are miles deep. They are near the poles.
We used to have glaciers across The Northern part of the U.S. and the Midwest. But that was those parts of the land mass WERE the POLAR REGION.
What is now the POLAR REGIONS, used to be tropics.
Scientists would have you believe (or teachers anyway) that the whole planet was covered in ice. Simply isn’t true.
Neither is the concept that the continents float around the seas willy-nilly bumping into each other and causing the mountain ranges to form.
There was some ‘individual tectonic plate movement’ that occurred, but that was a long time ago. The planet was much bigger, and an asteroid (or several) hit the Earth and burst through it like a bullet penetrating a pumpkin. Little hole in, big hole going out the back.
If you look at Google Earth, you can see the incoming hole (the Gulf of Mexico) and the outgoing mess where the ‘crust’ healed on the opposite side of the planet, under the ocean. This is where the moon came from.
The change in sea level from the advance or retreat of glaciers is so minimal the change in sea level would be unmeasurable.
Now, if you could get ALL the ice/glaciers everywhere on the planet to melt all at the same time, then you could cause a measurable change. Since that would only happen if we moved the Earth a whole bunch closer to the Sun.....
Let me ask you this. Are sea levels currently RISING or FALLING ?
There used to be glaciers in Glacier National Park, but they all melted when George W. Bush refused to approve the Kyoto Protocols. At least I think that’s what the mainsream media has told us.
lost “civilizations” now exist above the persian gulf.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see Iran beneath the Persion Gulf?
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