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Ancient Sunken City Discovered Off Shores of Cuba. Maybe
King Africa writes "Explorers using a miniature submarine to probe the sea floor off the coast of Cuba said on Thursday they had confirmed the discovery of stone structures deep below the ocean surface that may have been built by an unknown human civilization thousands of years ago.
The explorers said they believed the mysterious structures, discovered at the astounding depth of around 2,100 feet and laid out like an urban area, could have been built at least 6,000 years ago. That would be about 1,500 years earlier than the great Giza pyramids of Egypt. " The BBC has a bit more substantative article on this as well - but I do wonder how they assigned the date "of at least 6000 years ago" to this.
I'm just assuming they just forgot to mention the large bubble over the entire city and the people/aliens who populate it.
>but I do wonder how they assigned the date "of >at least 6000 years ago" to this.
no doubt by checking the log files on their mainframes, silly.
don't you know that any newly discovered ancient civilization is bound to have been centuries ahead of it's time in technology. don't you watch movies?
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I like the last couple of quotes from the bbc article:
"It's a really wonderful structure which really looks like it could have been a large urban centre... However, it would be totally irresponsible to say what it was before we have evidence."
Well, alright then.
RC
no. carbon-14 only decays in oxygen. water has the amazing property of preventing radioactive decay.
Does this mean Disney will have a set for their sequal to Altantis. Or perhaps the Little Mermaid?
Or is it the lost city of Atlanta?
they have discovered what they think are the ruins of a submerged city built thousands of years ago.
Are they implying that the city was submerged when it was actually populated? Or did they mean to say "submerged ruins of a city built thousands of years ago."
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but I do wonder how they assigned the date "of at least 6000 years ago" to this
They probably just read the sign:
The Lost City
est. 6000 BC (yes we know what C stands for)
pop.: depends on the date
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They're still waiting for the government to appropriate funds to provide adequate drainage. The problem is that this would require a government-sponsered lottery. I guess the right-wingers decided they'd rather be all wet.
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I guess the flinstones figured out how to build stuff underwater.
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When I first thought of a sunken city, I immediately thought of that city where jar jar binks lives in star wars. i hate that mother f**ker. god, now the whole article pissed me off because i had to think of jar jar. i swear i would love to rip his testacles off and see if that makes his voice less annoying.
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Please Lord. Don't let us find the skeleton of Jar Jar Binks.
but I do wonder how they assigned the date "of at least 6000 years ago" to this.
That's easy. They found coins marked "4000 BC".
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utter rubbish
"We've found an extremely large oblong box with a fanciful star shaped clasp. We're sending the robot down now to retrieve the artifact. Looks like it's going to be a great day!"
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but I do wonder how they assigned the date "of at least 6000 years ago" to this
By the sign on one of the restaurant doors that said "est. 4000 b.c."
Not to start another science vs. religion flame war but just and interesting note. 6000 years BC is pretty close to the time that creationist's place noah's flood isn't it?
I know I am putting my Karma at risk here, with all the Athiest Mods, but creationist out there would probably point to this as possible ruins form the flood.
That would be a significant enough event. Not to mention most creationist believe that at one time the continents were together etc...
Just a thought...
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When I discovered this submerged city, I immediately thought of you.
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You do know that Yosemitie National Park is on top of one the "super" volcano's. I mean if the thing blew again there is a chance it would cause massive loss of life, they are talking 3ft of ash 3000 miles away.
You misspelled Yellowstone.
Well obviously! As long as you forget that 6000BC was before Lehi & Friends came over on the boat.
Leave it to the mormons to believe that any event that took place on this side of the world before 1492 is proof that their church is true.
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A midget on a bar stool?
OK.. so it violates the principle of causality in Special Relativity. But as a believer in the Holy Order of Bogodynamics, this just confirms my belief in a FTL communication, mediated by Hog's Bogons. After all, it is thought that ancient civilizations were way ahead of us in technology.
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