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- goerg, on 08/01/2008, -5/+20ATLANTIS!
- MacEnvy, on 08/01/2008, -0/+11It's an uneroded terrestrial landscape that sunk into the sea and is well-preserved, that previous undersea mapping expeditions missed entirely.
Did you read the article at all, or just decide to make a comment on the title? - maing, on 07/31/2008, -0/+9Wikipedia: R'lyeh is a sunken city located deep under the Pacific Ocean
BBC: Deep below the sea, off the north coast of Northern Ireland, a dramatic geological mystery has been discovered.
I didn't know Norhern Ireland was in the Pacific Ocean - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -3/+11It's pretty much common knowledge now that before the last ice age, Britain was part of the land-mass of Europe, joined by a flat plain called Doggerland. Records show that the water level was over 100m lower then than it is now. (thanks to Baldrick for the info!)
This new discovery just adds to the growing evidence of habitable land that is now underwater (although 'habitable' might be pushing it, as the icesheets certainly covered most of Britain back then).
I believe the common concensus is that, once the ice started to melt and the water level started to rise, this peice of land was lost at a rate of at least 1m per year, so any humans there would have been subjected to a frightening loss of land worse than that envisaged by most climate fearmongers for our future.
And yet we survived, and adapted, and expanded all the same.
Whodathunkit? - notwizt, on 07/31/2008, -0/+8Yeah that could be a clever comment if it wasn't on the wrong ***** side of Earth.
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+5yes but instead of the whole world for 40 days and 40 nights it just flooded one tiny island near Ireland forever. that fits really well you your "proof"
- jayscot, on 08/01/2008, -0/+5Get a Bible. Read Genesis.
- jp44, on 08/01/2008, -7/+12I dunno, neon rainbow cliffs under the sea? Doubtful.
- LeRenard, on 08/01/2008, -6/+10Dugg for *not* mentioning Atlantis.
- wrathoftheafe, on 08/01/2008, -0/+4UNDA DA SEA!!!!
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -3/+6Good job of the team.
You can see the full video here on the Maritime and Coastguard Agency website : http://www.vnrs.co.uk/mca/video/rathlin.wmv - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -1/+4in 10000 years from now the raccoon people will be saying that about california.
- someology, on 08/01/2008, -1/+4More appropriately: My god, they discovered Tir Nan Og !!!!
- lebatte, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Incorrect!
- tiggerthedigger, on 09/05/2008, -0/+2I have read a few books on places like this. On some of the sunken landscapes they have found ruins in addition to rivers and lakes. When the next ice age hits, will these lands once again be uncovered?
Thanks for the article. Good read!
http://digg.com/travel_places/Old_Route_66_Two_Gun ... - lebatte, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Correct!
- synarchy, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2More proof, beyond the thousands upon thousands of peer reviewed scientists saying so, that global warming is a clear and present danger. Vote Obama to see this great land revealed once again, as the rising oceans give way to his will to change. And vote McShame to see it bombed back into the dark ages from whence it came.
- blatantninja, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2I think the issue with this discovery is that when the sea slowly rose after the end of the last ice age, it obliterated these type of features. Yet somehow these ones survived, possibility indicating that this landscape descended quickly underwater, not gradually.
- bosssmiley, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2No, it's the land of the ancient Fomorians.
From the wikipedia article: The word fomóire is believed to derive from Old Irish fo muire (Modern Irish faoi muire), "under the sea".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomorians#History_in_ ... - trollick, on 08/01/2008, -1/+3Under the sea
Under the sea - yngtimmy, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2wonder how deep it is
- Mootabolife, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Most people don't know how to read articles.
- drunknmunky1, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Goldeneye anyone?
- N00F, on 08/01/2008, -1/+2I dunno why you're being dug down? It's like the people on DIGG have an aversion to intelligent theories?
- korvan504521, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Jordheim is better.
- Indierocka, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Wait Maing, your trying to say there was land?! before history?! Get outta here
- SolidBones, on 08/01/2008, -1/+2Tourist attraction in 3....2....1...
- BuckCynnie, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1If you submerge something is that considered buried?
- sufiboy, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Atlantis, surely?
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1squidgravy, it means that the Earth has undergone many warming and cooling periods over its life. Most scientists believe we are still on an 'up' that has been going on since the last ice age, and will probably continue for a number of thousands of years, before heading back down to another probable ice age, some time after that, only to then go through the old routine again... and again... and again...
I thought this was all basic primary school stuff?
btw, the planet has undergone temperature change far greater than anything we are experiencing, or expect to experience, in the near future. It is not the change in temperature that counts, it is the RATE of change that seems to be greater than records show, although the information from that far back is vague as far as timescales. - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1do you remember it?
- yujie, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1They found the mole people?
- hoisonsauce, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0North or South Americans?
- Jim08, on 08/01/2008, -2/+2"It's a landscape no human has even seen. And those who live right beside it had no idea it even existed."
Of course they didn't. It's...under the sea.
"Could it mean that some cataclysmic event took place that allowed the sea to overwhelm the land before erosion could begin?"
Sort of like a flood? Scientist's are so excitable these days. Calm down. - MRintheKeys, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0Or possible that what we call "global warming" could be a natural process by Earth prepping itself for another ice age.
- BuckCynnie, on 08/01/2008, -1/+1Rapture Mark I
- biogears, on 08/01/2008, -1/+1Ancient Island built on, then destroyed by Volcano.
- shindig111, on 08/01/2008, -1/+1The link is in the article. Why do you have put it up here?
- ArbitraryTask, on 08/01/2008, -2/+2*hums Jurassic Park theme*
- Jmn187, on 08/01/2008, -1/+1I feel bad for my prehistoric hommies
- ddeba74, on 08/03/2008, -0/+0Wonder whether remmants of any ancient civilization or fossils could be discovered down there.
ddeba74 - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0@blatantninja
that's certainly the way the article reads.
However, Doggerland was at least partly mapped a couple of years ago, and you can clearly see hills, rivers and lakes in the landscape. There is at least one major delta clear as it would have been when it was exposed.
They have even found evidence of human habitation, including bones, tools and possible foundations for a wooden structure of some sort. - ArbitraryTask, on 08/02/2008, -0/+0dun dan dun dan DUN DAN DAN DUN DAN DAN DAN
- MRintheKeys, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0Hey man, you can only work with what ya got.
- GKang, on 08/01/2008, -1/+1looks pretty cool if it is a flooded landscape some of the items look to be marine in nature
- MRintheKeys, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0You learn something new everyday.
- drunknmunky1, on 08/01/2008, -3/+2Bury this.
- earthforce1, on 07/31/2008, -10/+9My god - they discovered R'lyeh!
Check sanity level....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyeh -
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