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'Lost Continent' Rises Again With New Expedition (smithsonianmag.com)
Tens of millions of years after it disappeared under the waters of the Pacific Ocean, scientists have completed the first explorations of what some scientists are calling a hidden continent. From a report: During a two-month ocean voyage this summer, a team of more than 30 scientists from 12 countries explored the submerged landmass of Zealandia on an advanced research vessel and collected samples from the seabed. Scientists were able to drill into the ocean floor at depths of more than 4,000 feet, collecting more than 8,000 feet of sediment cores that provides a window into 70 million years of geologic history, reports Georgie Burgess for ABC News. More than 8,000 fossils from hundreds of species were also collected in the drilling, giving scientists a glimpse at terrestrial life that lived tens of millions of years ago in the area. "The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past," expedition leader Gerald Dickens said in a statement. While more than 90 percent of Zealandia is now submerged under more than a kilometer (two-thirds of a mile) of water, when it was above the surface, it likely provided a path that many land animals and plants could have used to spread across the South Pacific, notes Naaman Zhou of the Guardian.
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How could their climate have possibly changed without SUVs, air-conditioners, and cows with meteorism?
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If the expedition team encounters any antediluvian buildings that appear to be built based on a non-Euclidean geometry, resist the urge to open any doors. Just trust me on this.
It was called Atlantis.
was it mu? or lemuria?
where's the fucking auto bans?
Germany?
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this is a re-discovery!
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Considered the greatest sci-fi flick ending by some
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So the Kivis think they can promote their tiny piece of land to a continent just by declaring it one? Whom they think they are, Europe?
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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We must spare no expense in finding out who is responsible for the loss of the continent, and take measures to garner salary and benefits to compensate for the loss.
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Rock climbing.
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Have gnu, will travel.
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Also known in Oceanic mythology by names like Kavai, Havai, Kavaiki, Havaiki, Kavaiki, or Hawaiki, after which Hawai'i was named (its discoverers believing they had found the mythical lost land where all their peoples descend from).
Or as I like to call it, Auei.
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Apparently, they also found many warnings about global warming.
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I would change the threshold but you fuckers routinely mod posts down that don't fit my "multiple offtopic paragraphs" criteria so no and fuck you Cpt. Shithead.
This article avoids the trap, but I've seen other news coverage calling Zealandia the eighth continent. This can't be right. For Zealandia to count as a continent, your definition of continent has to be something like a sizeable region of continental crust separated from other such regions. With this in mind, the count of continents would be Eurasia/Africa, the Americas, Antarctica, Australia. If you think it big enough to be continental, Zealandia would come in at number five. (Even the Eurasia/Africa separation from the Americas is questionable. Australia separates from Eurasia/Africa at the Russell line.)
In addition, of course, there never were (in human history) seven continents. Separating Europe from Asia was always Eurocentric exceptionalism in direct conflict with reality.
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Seriously, just leave it be: http://chrono.wikia.com/wiki/Zeal
No. That would be 'A Boy and His Dog'. Greatest movie ending of all time.
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I don't see how this draft from 50 shades of brown and Zealandia are related ? Maybe it was for some Trump news or something ?