Originally posted by Unity_99
If antartica and greenland should melt, 230 feet is the conservative estimate for the amount of raise in ocean level can be expected. I have read 200 meters, though that must have been a typo.

The thickness of the ice in Antartica and Greenland (on the land) is known. The square mile area of both is know.

Multiply those two figures and you get volume... divide it by the amount volume is reduced from ice to water... then get the square miles of ocean

That will give you a better idea.

Besides I am not worried... ice age is over due

ok so y is it that all these ancient cities were on the coast? y isn't there other pre cataclysmic cities inland up rivers or other water ways? we haven't found one or have we? did the ancients only build megalithic cities by the coast?

Originally posted by 11azerus11
ok so y is it that all these ancient cities were on the coast? y isn't there other pre cataclysmic cities inland up rivers or other water ways? we haven't found one or have we? did the ancients only build megalithic cities by the coast?

Yonaguni, beneath the Sea near Japan





Terraces and steps: prehistoric rock-hewn structures at Sacsayhuaman and nearby Qenko in the high Andes mountains of Peru





Both sites look remarkably similar, even to the giant 'staircase' that seems to have no logical purpose

Those megalithic structures didnt go unnoticed by this archeaologist. Yes it is true, there is more than one megalithic structure under water, there were several temple-like buildings that were flooded when the earth's oceans began to rise. Some of them are now covered by sand and silt and forgotten by time and by man. Those structures are probably alot older than 8,000 years, since 8,000 years ago was around the same time period as the Sumerian civilization. In Sumerian times the ocean was about 300 feet shallower, and some of those strucutures are far deeper than 300 feet, so they had to have been built around the last ice age or the end of it, between 20k and 12k years ago. This time period would have been around the same time that the bahamas were apart of the north american continent when they werent islands, and when cuba was connected to mexico, and when the british isles were also connected to europe.

At some point in time the earths oceans began to rise, some theorize this was caused by the antarctican ice sheet sliding into the ocean, (The Great Flood) which caused a massive near world wide tsunami that was 2 or 3 miles high and spread across the globe flooding the mediteranean which was then just a large lake and creating the "pillars of heracles" a.k.a. the straight of gibralter, which when the mediteranean flooded and rose the floodwaters also rose and flooded into the bosphorous river leading the to black sea which at that time was also just a large lake. We know the black sea was just a lake because the top half of the water is salt water, and the lower half is freshwater, and because underwater archeaologists have discovered foundations of buildings on the bottom of the blacksea so at one point it was just a large lake, probably the size of one of the lochs in scottland.

We also now know that the great flood had to have been real, because all across the world in many areas like the english channel, near the bahamas at bimini road, and in the persian gulf there have been pre-historic settlements and structures discovered under the sea so people lived in these areas before the oceans rose. Most or all of these settlements are about the same elevation and ancient babylonian texts talk of a great flood, which even they remembered and passed down over the generations. Theres always a grain or more of truth in any myth or legend, and many more grains of truth when catastrphic events happen on biblical scale, because something so horrendous and terrifying happens to engrain it into peoples memories for all time, the loss of loved ones and family in these events ensure that it will be forever remembered and passed down through the generations.