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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/25/2007 : 07:15:41
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... so this video is titled at CNN. Except there is no "castle." And no "city," lost or otherwise. There are just some scuba divers looking at some terraced sedimentary rock formations on the ocean bed. Such formations are common, off Japan, off Bimini, off Malta. (See this article at The Hall of Maat for a bit of background on pseudoscience that pushes the notion of now-submerged advanced civilizations during the Ice Age.)
No archaelogists are interested, because they know from the geology that they are natural. Even with just one introductory college course in geology, I can tell these formations are obviously natural. I've seen almost identical formations on land.
This video is pathetic! A disgrace even by CNN's low science standards. There's not even a spoken soundtrack. YOU just hear bubbles ans scuba regulators. Nor is there any information in text or otherwise about saying who these people are, where they are, or what they are doing. Except this caption at the bottom of the screen: "COURTESY OF THE MARINE SCIENCES AND CULTURE RESEARCH ASSN." And text on the Web page that says: "Lost world found? Divers explore what some believe to be the ruins of the lost world of Muin off the coast of Japan."
Areas off Japan just like that that (Yonaguni and Kerama) have already been cited by geologists as natural. I think this might be one of those same places.
Not news, not science! Grrr!
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/25/2007 07:39:18
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 07:38:18 [Permalink]
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Well gee Mooner. Can you blame them? It was that or report on a lot of nothing. At least this nothing is on video.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2007 : 07:40:40 [Permalink]
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You're right, of course. Cosmic voids are anything but photogenic.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 15:47:14 [Permalink]
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Bah. Everyone should that the city of Atlantis was submerged somewhere in the Pegasus galaxy until about three years ago, when it was found by an international expedition lead by the American AirForce.
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JEROME DA GNOME
BANNED
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Posted - 08/26/2007 : 16:21:31 [Permalink]
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I do not see why this is not worthy of study. There have been ice ages which did lower the sea levels. Knowing that man commony builds societies near water, I find it reasonable to study these formations to see if these are man made structures.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2007 : 16:58:50 [Permalink]
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What study? I didn't see anyone studying anything in that video.
If you had read the Hal of Maat article link I gave, Jerome, you would have seen that archaeologists do indeed take continental shelf settlement by humans during the ice ages seriously. But there's never been any evidence of civilization during the last ice age. And that's the phony claim being made by the kind of woos that promote these pseudoscience stunts. These woos also like to claim that nobody else is studying underwater sites, which is false. They continue to ignore a great deal of real archeology.
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"Underwater castle may be part of lost city"...
