Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf - Polidicks

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26609684]Atlantis? I find it amazing that our planet can take a landmass and completely submerge it, then make it seem like it never existed.[/QUOTE] atlantis was built but on top of an active volcano, the whole city blew up and rubble was tossed into the surrounding sea's. the volcano it was build on became a island with a hole in it near greece

I read the title and expected a Mesopotamian civilization living in that area around 5000 years ago. I didn't expect tribes of hunter gatherers who were there.

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26609684]Atlantis? I find it amazing that our planet can take a landmass and completely submerge it, then make it seem like it never existed.[/QUOTE] Atlantis is not a thing. First of all, our knowledge of plate tectonics rules out the possibility of sunken mystery continents. But there's a far more convincing reason than even this: That is, Atlantis was something that Plato completely pulled out of his ass just so Socrates could have something to talk about, and he specifically mentions in his writing that Atlantis is a completely hypothetical city. This is part of the reason why Atlantis was not taken seriously until modern times. Most ancients actually took Plato's dialogues as the thought experiments they really were. What's more, the book that mentions Atlantis, the Timaeus, is fewer than 100 pages long. This is shit you can seriously knock out while you're killing time at the bus station. Though it should not come as much surprise that countless books and god knows how many hours of the History Channel have been dedicated to asking a riddle as easy to solve as looking up a word in the dictionary. It's pretty damn easy to pass yourself as an expert in a book that most people have never actually read past the first few pages.

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[img]http://www.paranormalhaze.com/img/mistery/atlantis-lost-or-found/06.jpg[/img] Reminds me of the Doggerland. The oceans used to be a lot lower so there's places all over the world which were popular with early humans because of flood plains and fishing until they were driven away by alarmingly fast rising waters. So they headed closer and closer to the hills and mountains which now make up the continents.

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;26619756]ask baba vanga[/QUOTE] She lie...Past november no war.

[QUOTE=mrryanchisholm;26622354][img_thumb]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn289/cep7/atlantis_lost_empire.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Daniel Jackson and Teal'c fuck yeah.

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26609684]Atlantis? I find it amazing that our planet can take a landmass and completely submerge it, then make it seem like it never existed.[/QUOTE] The government has done similar things for a while, y'know...

[QUOTE=Dahaka32;26630675]She lie...Past november no war.[/QUOTE] Or maybe.. The war has already started.. But you just don't know it yet!! Or maybe they'll call the wikileaks thing a war and it'll be a world war since it covers the whole world almost.

Now all we gotta do is use a pump and suck out all the water.

[QUOTE=OvB;26611172]The ocean covers 70% of our blue planet. Look how long the resources we find on the 30% that we occupy last us. Now imagine how long the resources in the ocean floor will last us. There are mountain ranges that dwarf the Himalayas, Canyons that make the Grand Canyon look like a ditch, [i]millions[/i] of unknown life forms, It is the biggest ecosystem on this planet. We have yet to even begin to probe it. More people have been on the moon that to the deepest part of the ocean (only two men), more rovers have landed on mars than have the bottom of the abyssal plains. We don't know shit about the ocean.[/QUOTE] That's because it's, quite frankly, easier to go to space than it is to dive. There is another atmosphere of pressure every 10.3 meters. Although, there have been some advances in dealing with this lately, like [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/into-the-abyss-the-diving-suit-that-turns-men-into-fish-2139167.html]a diving suit concept that includes breathable liquid and blood-scrubbers[/url], thus allowing a diver to adapt to nearly any pressure. In the article, they even said that they were able to take mammals from simulated 1000 feet to complete decompression in less than half of a second with no decompression sickness at all.

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgreV2;26649191]That's because it's, quite frankly, easier to go to space than it is to dive. There is another atmosphere of pressure every 10.3 meters. Although, there have been some advances in dealing with this lately, like [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/into-the-abyss-the-diving-suit-that-turns-men-into-fish-2139167.html]a diving suit concept that includes breathable liquid and blood-scrubbers[/url], thus allowing a diver to adapt to nearly any pressure. In the article, they even said that they were able to take mammals from simulated 1000 feet to complete decompression in less than half of a second with no decompression sickness at all.[/QUOTE] Obligatory "what if they get eaten?" :v:

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgreV2;26649191]That's because it's, quite frankly, easier to go to space than it is to dive. There is another atmosphere of pressure every 10.3 meters. Although, there have been some advances in dealing with this lately, like [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/into-the-abyss-the-diving-suit-that-turns-men-into-fish-2139167.html]a diving suit concept that includes breathable liquid and blood-scrubbers[/url], thus allowing a diver to adapt to nearly any pressure. In the article, they even said that they were able to take mammals from simulated 1000 feet to complete decompression in less than half of a second with no decompression sickness at all.[/QUOTE] The vehicle that took the only two men to the challenger deep was first launched in 1953, and took them there in 1960. Nine years before Apollo 11. The technology is out there. Manned missions are not even necessary, we have ROV's that can hit the bottom, and the technology to build autonomous Rovers that rival Spirit and Opportunity. We have the technology to explore the ocean in it's entirety. There is no excuse to why we only have discovered some 10% of it. To say it's to hard to do missions to the bottom? well the same thing that John F Kennedy said about the moon can be said about the ocean: [i]"we choose to go to the moon(ocean) in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills"[/i]

[QUOTE=TheBrokenHobo;26609514]In fact, recent evidence from the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome suggests interbreeding, meaning we are part caveman.[/QUOTE] Woah there, take it easy Yahoo news, that's not exactly true. What the sequencing shows is that our mitochondrial DNA has sequence similarities with the Neanderthals, but whether or not that is simply due to our divergent evolution, or actually due to interbreeding (and most suggest that is the former, not the latter, since it was highly probable that any interbreeding resulted in mule-like offspring) is a question of hotly contested debate. The genetic evidence, the only evidence indeed, is very tenuous in it's support of the statement you've just rendered as fact. In fact, it's hard to make any statement like this when evolutionary geneticists/biologists are still very unsure (Read: There are hundreds of opinions with facts rendered in such a way as to support those opinions) about where we truly lie in the tree of human evolution, and anthropologists themselves can't decide on the scope, scale or tone of interaction our ancestors did have with Homo neanderthalensis