Atlantis again?Follow

http://i-newswire.com/pr49748.html

team of researchers have confirmed a complex of ancient harbor works in shallow water off Bimini, 50 miles from Miami...

...large stone circles on the bottom, formed from large blocks of limestone arranged into circular patterns. The circles were spaced at regular intervals. Stone anchors, identical to ancient Phoenician, Greek, and Roman anchors, were also found.


I remember that this was reported as a hoax back in the 70s, but there it is.

Question is, whodunit? Maybe the strange, white, bearded guys from across the ocean that they Mayans talked about?

beam me up, Scotty

If the continents crumbled into the oceans, all of our cities and cars and TVs.. would be GONE, 10,000 years from now people wouldn't have a fu[b][/b]cking clue that we were here.

Even if milllions survived.. do you really think that they would be able to rebuild society again?

Waht does the common man know about elctronics and steel smelting and cable repair, not to mention superconductors?

Duuh, everyone knows you need Spaceflight and Fission for Superconductors!

Given the advent of the printing press, there's about a kazillion books and manuals on electronics, steel smelting, cable repair and superconductors. Not counting the many, many people employeed in various fields relating to each. Globally. Which isn't to say we'd all be looking at high speed internet **** the day after the apocolypse, but we wouldn't be huddling in caves waiting for a lightning strike to start a fire, either.

Maybe the Ancient Phoencians knew the secret to cold fusion but I can tell you that there weren't six billion ancient Phoencians to carry on that knowledge when the sh[i][/i]it hit the fan.

must'nt forget things like this too:
http://www.unmuseum.org/bbattery.htm

and this:
http://ancientx.com/images/sued1_big.jpg

I don't think mankind would be twiddling their thumbs for ten thousand years either while silverfish ate the technical manuals.

Unless the "upheaval" came in the form of aliens razing the entire planet, I can't imagine many scenarios that wouldn't leave enough infrastructure to give civilization a pretty solid head start.

So i dont get it. There used to be a aunderwater city? Or did the oceans rise.

Again, think in terms of scale. There's probably more neurosurgeons on the planet right now than there were people in all of "Generic Ancient Culture That Invented Neurosurgery in 1400BC".

One bad earthquake or war or plague isn't likely to decimate the knowledge in the same way. You're going to need one hell of a disaster to globally replicate the same loss of knowledge that came from an ancient civilization of 400,000 people getting dinged a couple thousand years ago.

When Denver slides into the ocean, let me know

Or Nature's slow progress. Lake Titicaca didn't get to be 12,000 feet in the air overnight. The Rockies won't become beachfront property over the course of a weekend.

We'll have plenty of time to move the books

Again, each of these cultures that invented this or that were fairly small by modern standards. Much of the knowledge was isolated. The Egyptians may have had batteries but they didn't do enough with them to make anyone else care to use them. There's enough kids with enough basic knowledge of electric storage and current on the planet to give every ancient Egyptian their own potato clock. You're not going to have a single flood, volcano or whatever wipe out that knowledge these days.

heh, ***** it. Put away the tinfoil hats and start supporting the exploration (and eventual colonization) of other planets in our solar system.

I've done continuity of operations work for the government before. There is no upper threshold to how far a disaster can go. Instead of asking `What if we lose a server`, you ask `What if we lose a building?` Instead of the building, what happens if you lose an entire complex, or an entire town?

There are indeed things that could wipe out life on Planet Earth. Some are natural (disasters of all stripes), some are manmade (nuclear war), some are really random (comet attack!). The only real solutoin is to make sure we've got people off-planet just in case this one buys the farm some day.

From there we have to plan for a case where the sun cools down, meaning redunant galaxies around redundant stars, and blah blah blah, the work just never stops. ;)

I don't know about you but I have my ships stationed on 8 different planets in 6 different solar systems in 2 galaxies. Beat that for redundancy. You were talking about ogame right?




Edited, Mon Nov 14 14:11:32 2005 by Elderon