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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.
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?
You need to understand the difference between anthropogenic climate change and natural climate change. Sometimes, through unavoidable natural disasters such as volcanism or massive strikes from outer space, atmospheric CO2 is increased resulting in huge increases in temperature and tectonic upheaval. Other times, it is from people releasing the same gas artificially into the air as is happening right now. It all ends the same way - massive extinctions, end Permian dying, the sinking of the lost continent - take your pic, their all horrible for the earth and take millions of years to recover from (if at all). It's a sad thing to have as humanity's epitaph. But hey, as long as you keep telling yourself its not happening, we're all good, right?
You need to understand...
I blame cat parasites for his lack of understanding. Treat him with compassion, he has to live the rest of his life like that.
where's the fucking auto bans?
Germany?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
this is a re-discovery!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Considered the greatest sci-fi flick ending by some
Table-ized A.I.
Everything is reversible given time, whether we are still alive after it reverses well thats an entirely different story. Perhaps that is the 'subtle' point you are missing.
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.
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.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Rock climbing.
I thought the cat parasites were supposed to make people feel compassionate.
For me that's the beta interface, but the original interface can be turned back on so I'm good on that front but the original interface can also hide bad posts so that's good too. The fun thing is when I hear users say they don't see the beta interface anymore! The beta interface doesn't work when I turn on desktop site on mobipe Chrome and the login token is also completely broken.
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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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.
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
No. That would be 'A Boy and His Dog'. Greatest movie ending of all time.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You should really read at least the entire first paragraph before you quote something...
The Maunder Minimum roughly coincided with the middle part of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America experienced colder than average temperatures. Whether there is a causal relationship, however, is still controversial, as no convincing mechanism for the solar activity to produce cold temperatures has been proposed, and the current best hypothesis for the cause of the Little Ice Age is that it was the result of volcanic action. The onset of the Little Ice Age also occurred well before the beginning of the Maunder minimum.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
It's not just the change, it's the rate of change.
If the Earth's mean temperature changes by 2 degrees over 70 million years (the timescale TFA is talking about), it's a lot different than if happens over 200 years. That's over 5 orders of magnitude.
So yeah, if in 70 million years we've evolved into mer-people, then the ocean levels rising won't be a big deal. Since it only took 65 million years to go from dinosaurs to somewhat intelligent apes who invented the internet so idiots can post ridiculous crap on obsolete websites, it's totally possible.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
Tasmania was a peninsula recently enough for Homo Sapiens to populate it. Check-mate, idiot.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Oh OK, so I guess it's only 3-4 orders of magnitude then.
Also, "checkmate" is one word, not hyphenated.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
Your entire argument demolished, all you have left is arguing over spelling? Seriously? Not even semantics?
Something tells me, you were among those, who believed the ancient shamans in Tasmania, who explained the sea-rise by the sins of their flock. Lit too many fires you did, fools, and the snows melted! Let's kill these criminals, or else we all drown!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.