Interseting topic, I have long been intrigued by the Piri Reis map. There are many intresting theories about it.
I'm not sure I would go as far to say that Antarctica was the site of 'Atlantis' but it could have been information gained from an advanced
civilization such as 'Atlantis' who mapped the area many years before common history can explain.
I like your theory though... Deff an interesting subject.
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Topic started on 19-12-2005 @ 07:21 PM by OutoftheSky
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" The official science has been saying all along that the ice-cap which covers the Antarctic is million years old.
The Piri Reis map shows that the northern part of that continent has been mapped before the ice did cover it. That should make think it has been
mapped million years ago, but that's impossible since mankind did not exist at that time.
Further and more accurate studies have proven that the last period of ice-free condition in the Antarctic ended about 6000 years ago. There are still doubts about the beginning of this ice-free period, which has been put by different researchers everything between year 13000 and 9000 BC.
The question is: Who mapped the Queen Maud Land of Antarctic 6000 years ago? Which unknown civilization had the technology or the need to do that?"
You see the earth axis changes. northern canada just recently thawed and antarctica recently froze.
Research this and you will see that this is correct.
How long will it take for us to see it.
Heres a little more, its endless... im lazy, heres the seeds now plant them
Ancient Trees
By Larry O'Hanlon
Discovery News
11-6-4
A quarter-billion years ago, forested islands flashed with autumnal hues near the South Pole ó a polar scene unlike any today, researchers say.
Geologists have discovered in Antarctica the remains of three ancient deciduous forests complete with fossils of fallen leafs scattered around the tree trunks. The clusters of petrified tree stumps were found upright in the original living positions they held during the Permian period.
Some stumps were even poking up through the snowfield in the Beardmore Glacier area, said geologist Molly Miller of Vanderbilt University.
"These were not scrubby little things," Miller said. "These were big trees."
Some are estimated to have attained heights of 80 feet (24.6 meters), based on their trunk diameter.
Miller, Tim Cully and graduate student Nichole Knepprath came upon the three stands of the lost forests in December 2003. Knepprath will be presenting their discovery on Sunday at the meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.
Unlike any trees today, the long-extinct Glossopteris trees lived in stands as thick as almost a thousand per acre just 20 or 25 degrees from the South Pole, a latitude at which they received no sunlight for half the year.
As for what they looked like, Glossopteris tapered upwards like a Christmas tree. Instead of needles, they had large, broad lance-shaped leaves that fell to the ground at the end of summer. It's unknown if the leaves turned colors, said Miller, but it seems likely.
"These are early, early deciduous trees," said Miller.
They lived at a time when the Antarctic climate was much warmer - although the trees still had to survive an extreme light regime of low sunlight half the year and darkness the other half.
"We don't have any modern analogues to these polar forests," said paleobotanist David Cantrill, curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.
The fossilized tree rings in the Glossopteris trees reveal that they grew steadily each summer and abruptly stopped for winter, as if a switch had been thrown.
"They probably reacted to light (rather than temperature) to switch off," said Cantrill.
Modern deciduous trees slow down and then stop growing when cold weather moves in.
Although fossil trees from the Permian have been found before in Antarctica, this is the first time whole stands of trees have been discovered, said Cantrill. With stands, researchers can now measure the spacing and calculate sizes of the trees to glean information about how much sunlight and energy was available - valuable and rare clues to the Permian climate.
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" The official science has been saying all along that the ice-cap which covers the Antarctic is million years old.
The Piri Reis map shows that the northern part of that continent has been mapped before the ice did cover it. That should make think it has been
mapped million years ago, but that's impossible since mankind did not exist at that time.
Further and more accurate studies have proven that the last period of ice-free condition in the Antarctic ended about 6000 years ago. There are still doubts about the beginning of this ice-free period, which has been put by different researchers everything between year 13000 and 9000 BC.
The question is: Who mapped the Queen Maud Land of Antarctic 6000 years ago? Which unknown civilization had the technology or the need to do that?"
You see the earth axis changes. northern canada just recently thawed and antarctica recently froze.
Research this and you will see that this is correct.
How long will it take for us to see it.
Heres a little more, its endless... im lazy, heres the seeds now plant them
Ancient Trees
By Larry O'Hanlon
Discovery News
11-6-4
A quarter-billion years ago, forested islands flashed with autumnal hues near the South Pole ó a polar scene unlike any today, researchers say.
Geologists have discovered in Antarctica the remains of three ancient deciduous forests complete with fossils of fallen leafs scattered around the tree trunks. The clusters of petrified tree stumps were found upright in the original living positions they held during the Permian period.
Some stumps were even poking up through the snowfield in the Beardmore Glacier area, said geologist Molly Miller of Vanderbilt University.
"These were not scrubby little things," Miller said. "These were big trees."
Some are estimated to have attained heights of 80 feet (24.6 meters), based on their trunk diameter.
Miller, Tim Cully and graduate student Nichole Knepprath came upon the three stands of the lost forests in December 2003. Knepprath will be presenting their discovery on Sunday at the meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver.
Unlike any trees today, the long-extinct Glossopteris trees lived in stands as thick as almost a thousand per acre just 20 or 25 degrees from the South Pole, a latitude at which they received no sunlight for half the year.
As for what they looked like, Glossopteris tapered upwards like a Christmas tree. Instead of needles, they had large, broad lance-shaped leaves that fell to the ground at the end of summer. It's unknown if the leaves turned colors, said Miller, but it seems likely.
"These are early, early deciduous trees," said Miller.
They lived at a time when the Antarctic climate was much warmer - although the trees still had to survive an extreme light regime of low sunlight half the year and darkness the other half.
"We don't have any modern analogues to these polar forests," said paleobotanist David Cantrill, curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.
The fossilized tree rings in the Glossopteris trees reveal that they grew steadily each summer and abruptly stopped for winter, as if a switch had been thrown.
"They probably reacted to light (rather than temperature) to switch off," said Cantrill.
Modern deciduous trees slow down and then stop growing when cold weather moves in.
Although fossil trees from the Permian have been found before in Antarctica, this is the first time whole stands of trees have been discovered, said Cantrill. With stands, researchers can now measure the spacing and calculate sizes of the trees to glean information about how much sunlight and energy was available - valuable and rare clues to the Permian climate.
Copyright © 2004 Discovery Communications Inc. dsc.discovery.com...
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[edit on 19-12-2005 by OutoftheSky]
[edit on 19-12-2005 by OutoftheSky]
[edit on 12-22-2005 by Springer]
reply posted on 24-12-2005 @ 07:43 AM by Essan
Originally posted by OutoftheSky
Further and more accurate studies have proven that the last period of ice-free condition in the Antarctic ended about 6000 years ago.
This common misconception is based on the fact that around 6,000 years ago sea ice around Antarctica began to increase again.
During the Last Glacial Maximum ice sheets extended beyond the current coastal margins. When they ice age ended, rising sea levels pushed the ice sheets back. ANd for the past 10,000 or so years there has, in places, been an ice free continental margin.
There's a comprehensive history of the Antarctic ice sheet here: www.hi.is...
It doesn't leave much room for Atlantis, I'm afraid.....
btw If the Piri Re'is map shows Antarctica, why is Antarctica connected to S America? Where is the Drake Passage? Or the West Antarctic Peninsular? Missing them is like mapping the Meditteranean and missing out Italy......
reply posted on 25-12-2005 @ 10:20 PM by Boatphone
Wow, I was just going to post about this. This is highly interesting.
There is no doubt in my mind that Antarctica is in fact Atlantis.
I have just finished reading the book, "The Fingerprints of the Gods", by Graham Hancock. He spells out the theory very well.
What happened (according to him) is that the lithosphere of the Earth shifted due slight changes in the Earths orbit. This caused Antarctica to shift into the Artic Circle, destroying Atlantis.
The book is very long and highly detailed. It also, bring up the fact that some survivors reached Egypt and started to rebuild there.
Anyone interested should check Hancock out: www.grahamhancock.com...
Great stuff!!
-- Boat
There is no doubt in my mind that Antarctica is in fact Atlantis.
I have just finished reading the book, "The Fingerprints of the Gods", by Graham Hancock. He spells out the theory very well.
What happened (according to him) is that the lithosphere of the Earth shifted due slight changes in the Earths orbit. This caused Antarctica to shift into the Artic Circle, destroying Atlantis.
The book is very long and highly detailed. It also, bring up the fact that some survivors reached Egypt and started to rebuild there.
Anyone interested should check Hancock out: www.grahamhancock.com...
Great stuff!!
-- Boat
reply posted on 30-12-2005 @ 05:57 PM by Uncle Pete
Originally posted by Boatphone
Wow, I was just going to post about this. This is highly interesting.
There is no doubt in my mind that Antarctica is in fact Atlantis.
I have just finished reading the book, "The Fingerprints of the Gods", by Graham Hancock. He spells out the theory very well.
What happened (according to him) is that the lithosphere of the Earth shifted due slight changes in the Earths orbit. This caused Antarctica to shift into the Artic Circle, destroying Atlantis.
The book is very long and highly detailed. It also, bring up the fact that some survivors reached Egypt and started to rebuild there.
Anyone interested should check Hancock out: www.grahamhancock.com...
Great stuff!!
-- Boat
I just picked up Fingerprints of the Gods and can't wait to get into it. Graham Hancock seems to be a man of extraordinary passion for this type of subject matter.
I am glad you did not go into vast detail about the book! Can't wait to share my thoughts from the book.
reply posted on 4-1-2006 @ 08:12 AM by Essan
Originally posted by Gear_
There have been cases of flash freezing. There have been wooly mammoths found frozen solid with plants and flowers in their mouths that they were eating the moment they were frozen. I believe it is still speculative as to how this flash freezing occurred.
No, it's not speculative at all. It's well known (amongst those who study such matters) that they drowned - after falling in a bog or a swollen river. They had been eating arctic plants.
Forget the nonsense spouted by the likes of Hancock etc. This is what the real experts have to say about mammoths, the climate they lived in and how they died: Results of the CERPOLEX/Mammuthus Expeditions
There is no mammoth mystery, just myth.
