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  • U.S. Denies Spectacular Ruins in Antarctica Captured on Video

    04/13/2002 7:01:52 PM PDT · by vannrox · 165 replies · 12,680+ views
    AMP LA 03-18-02 0925GMT ^ | Monday, March 18, 2002 - Web posted at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 GMT) | WASHINGTON, D.C. (AMP)
    U.S. Denies “Spectacular Ruins” in Antarctica Captured on Video WASHINGTON, D.C. (AMP) – The U.S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a video found by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive archeological dig is underway two miles beneath the ice. The @lantisTV production crew that shot the video is still missing. Attorneys for Beverly Hills-based @lantisTV stressed that the company’s primary concern is for the safety and welfare of its crew. But they stated they will “vigorously oppose” any attempts to “censor material that is clearly in the public interest and...
  • 'True polar wander' may have caused ice age

    11/20/2018 5:32:39 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 34 replies
    phys.org ^ | November 19, 2018, | Rice University
    Like any spinning object, Earth is subject to centrifugal force, which tugs on the planet's fluid interior. At the equator, where this force is strongest, Earth is more than 26 miles larger in diameter than at the poles. Gordon said true polar wander may occur when dense, highly viscous bumps of mantle build up at latitudes away from the equator. If the mantle anomalies are massive enough, they can unbalance the planet, and the equator will gradually shift to bring the excess mass closer to the equator. The planet still spins once every 24 hours and true polar wander does...
  • Lost city of Atlantis FOUND in Antarctica? Bizarre structure exposed by melting ice

    04/14/2018 2:19:24 PM PDT · by BBell · 93 replies
    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/ ^ | 4/14/18 | Callum Hoare
    THE lost city of Atlantis may have finally been uncovered after a structure was spotted poking through the ice of Antartica on Google Earth.Conspiracy theorists have long searched for the mythical city, which was first written about by philosopher Plato. Some believe it was a real place and was once the ruling power of the world before a natural disaster sank the entire island into the sea. But one man – Graham Maple, who runs YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot – may have brought an end to all the speculation after his amazing spot on the web mapping site. He believes...
  • Fossilized pollen reveals climate history of northern Antarctica

    07/01/2011 7:58:45 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 21 replies
    PhysOrg ^ | June 27, 2011 | Rice University
    A painstaking examination of the first direct and detailed climate record from the continental shelves surrounding Antarctica reveals that the last remnant of Antarctic vegetation existed in a tundra landscape on the continent's northern peninsula about 12 million years ago. The research, which was led by researchers at Rice University and Louisiana State University, appears online this week and will be featured on the cover of the July 12 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... In the warmest period in Earth's past 55 million years, Antarctica was ice-free and forested. The continent's vast ice sheets, which...
  • Snapshot Of Past Climate Reveals No Ice In Antarctica Millions Of Years Ago

    03/06/2009 1:04:30 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 37 replies · 1,583+ views
    ScienceDaily ^ | July 29, 2008 | Natural Environment Research Council and Cardiff University
    A snapshot of New Zealand's climate 40 million years ago reveals a greenhouse Earth, with warmer seas and little or no ice in Antarctica, according to research recently published in the journal Geology. The study suggests that Antarctica at that time was yet to develop extensive ice sheets. Back then, New Zealand was about 1100 km further south, at the same latitude as the southern tip of South America -- so was closer to Antarctica -- but the researchers found that the water temperature was 23-25°C at the sea surface and 11-13°C at the bottom. "This is too warm to...
  • Catastrophism

    04/02/2006 2:13:59 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 253 replies · 18,519+ views
    Various ^ | Various
    Did a planetary wobble kill the dinosaurs? by Nicola JonesNew ScientistJune 27 2001Bruce Runnegar from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for Astrobiology... and his colleagues used computer models to map out the Solar System for the past 250 million years. In particular, they looked at the perihelion of each planet - the point in its orbit where it is closest to the Sun. The perihelion of Earth rotates around the Sun with a period of hundreds of thousands of years. Because of subtle tugs and pulls between the planets, this period changes slightly with time... Their...
  • COLIN WILSON AT 70

    12/12/2005 12:49:09 PM PST · by robowombat · 114+ views
    The Colin Wilson Page ^ | 2001 | GEOFF WARD
    COLIN WILSON AT 70 by GEOFF WARD FOR the first-time visitor, knocking at the front door of Colin Wilson's home draws no response - one finds out later that this is because it is blocked off by bookshelves. Indeed, his house is half-home, half-library, with thousands of books on shelves lining the walls of every passageway and every room and filling three sheds in his back garden, not to mention the many thousands of records and videotapes he has collected over the years - a veritable information universe all his own. Therefore, on my initial visit, it was the kitchen...
  • A CATASTROPHICAL SCENARIO FOR DISCONTINUITIES IN HUMAN HISTORY

    04/19/2002 12:42:27 PM PDT · by vannrox · 29 replies · 5,783+ views
    Journal of New England Antiquities Research Association, 26, 1-14, 1991 ^ | First version published in 1985 as Quaderno 85/3. | Emilio Spedicato - University of Bergamo
    GALACTIC ENCOUNTERS, APOLLO OBJECTS AND ATLANTIS: A CATASTROPHICAL SCENARIO FOR DISCONTINUITIES IN HUMAN HISTORY Emilio SpedicatoUniversity of Bergamo Acknowledgements The author acknowledges stimulating discussions with Thor Heyerdahl (Colle Micheri, Liguria and Guimar, Tenerife), Laurence Dixon (University of Hertfordhshire), Victor Clube (Oxford University), Emmanuel Anati (Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici), Zdenek Kukal (Central Geological Survey, Prague), Donald Patten (Seattle), Flavio Barbiero (Livorno), Antonino Del Popolo (Bergamo), Lia Mangolini (Milano), Graham Hancock (Leat Mill, Lifton) and Andrew Collins (Leigh on Sea). Third revised version. First version published in 1985 as Quaderno 85/3. First revised version published in 1990 as Quaderno 90/22...
  • Mysterious Map Emerges at the Dawn of the Egyptian Civilization and Depicts Antarctica Without Ice –

    07/26/2018 11:00:36 AM PDT · by wildbill · 61 replies
    Ancient Origens.net ^ | July 2018 | Rand Ath
    On a chilly winter day in 1929, Halil Edhem, the Director of Turkey's National Museum, was hunched over his solitary task of classifying documents. He pulled towards him a map drawn on Roe deer skin. As Halil opened the chart to its full dimensions (two feet by three feet wide or 60 X 90 cm) he was surprised by how much of the New World was depicted on a map which dated from 1513. The document was the legacy of a pirate turned Turkish Admiral, Piri Reis ( circa 1470-1554). He was born in Gallipoli, a naval base on the...
  • Incredible pictures of giant ice sculptures carved by sea water and polar winds

    03/25/2010 10:46:38 AM PDT · by waus · 28 replies · 1,933+ views
    Mail Online ^ | 3-25-10 | waus
    Humans may have spent thousands of years trying to master the art of the perfect sculpture, but these incredible photographs of icebergs show they are no match for nature's grand design. Pictured off the Western Antarctic Peninsula, these colossal ice carvings have been whittled away by biting polar winds, freezing water and sub-zero temperatures to form incredible mega structures that take the breath away.
  • Study Says Medieval New World Map Is Real [Thank Leif Eriksson]

    11/26/2003 6:19:59 PM PST · by nwrep · 56 replies · 1,901+ views
    AP ^ | November 27, 2003 | DIANE SCARPONI
    NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The latest scientific analysis of a disputed map of the medieval New World supports the theory that it was made 50 years before Christopher Columbus set sail. The study examined the ink used to draw the Vinland Map, which belongs to Yale University. The map is valued at $20 million — if it is real and not a clever, modern-day forgery. A study last summer said the ink on the parchment map was made in the 20th century. But chemist Jacqueline Olin, a retired researcher with the Smithsonian Institution (news - web sites) in Washington, said...