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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3052619.stm

Uh-oh....
Images from US space shuttle missions in the 1980s appeared to show ancient river drainage patterns beneath the Sahara desert.

Subsequent imaging turned up ring structures beneath the ice of Antarctica.
Hancock may be right about Antarctica after all!
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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I have heard there is a giant crater under the antarctic ice...but what is a "ring structure?"
Like Stonehenge? :shock:
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Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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Hancock may be right about Antarctica after all!
Bet ?
:lol:
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Ok Min. Let's see if you get a Notification.
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Yep.

You must have felt like the caretaker here today?
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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Post by Beagle »

Yeah :lol:

I don't know why I was the only one getting in, but I'm glad everything is back to normal.

Whatever normal is. 8)
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Oh, THIS is not normal.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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Yeah, but this is as normal as it gets. :lol:
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Since we are re-visiting 'normal' let's get back on track.

An interesting site about Sudan containing a series of links.

http://www.nubianet.org/about/about_history1.html
Throughout the last 100,000 years, the Nile Valley and Sahara underwent many dry and wet phases, which over such a span of time would have constantly altered man's habitat. We do not know what the people who used these tools looked like, but they were surely hunters and would have migrated in bands, supplementing their diet with gathered fruits, nuts and vegetables. This uniform early Paleolithic tool "culture" is known as the Achulean, and it existed from about 500,000 to 50,000 years ago.
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Another interesting article.

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Article/ ... n_Age.html
The idea that human history is a gradual but continual progression – starting from a state of savagery, with generations slowly making technological and social advances and passing these down, and leading to the pinnacle of western European civilisation – is a leftover from the Victorian era, part of the same colonial mentality which saw “primitive” indigenous peoples as subhumans who could be justifiably conquered and killed. Rather than a progression, the last 6000 years of war, oppression, misery and hardship are the result of a painful degeneration from an earlier, healthier state.
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I've been away from the computer for a bit. I'll read these articles here and get caught up.
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Post by Beagle »

Good stuff, I liked the first one in particular.
There has been so much posted in this forum about ancient climate change that it seems undeniable now that mankind has endured periods of complete catastophe.

There's no reason to think it won't happen again.
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Yeah, anyone who buys waterfront property now is asking for trouble.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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I think we're near to p414. Before discussing "Unseen Connections", I think it's worth noting that the 10,500BC time period is not the only time that the Sahara had enough rainfall to bloom into a savannah.

Around 6K to about 3250BC there was also a great deal of rain. That period seems more likely to have been the one that had the progenitors of the AEs, but it doesn't fit well with GHs' hyperdiffusionist scenario.

Speaking of which, he flashes back to on p.414.
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