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(01-27-2021, 04:06 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Very interesting.
Questions of what lies beneath the oceans may never be answered in our lifetime. It would be cool if they were though.
Yeah, But there is an agenda.
We have rovers on the surface of Mars. I bet we, humankind, would be able to map all ocean floors, but there is no political will to do so. There is a bunch of big USOs there. And we are "not ready". Our leaders always think that we are never ready for the TRUTH!
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I don't doubt the potential for underwater ruins in the modern world. During the last ice age, sea levels were substantially lower, since water was tied up in huge glacial ice caps. 20,000 years ago, it was nearly 300 feet lower, and that can uncover a lot of continental shelf that is no longer uncovered. For example, there was a land bridge connecting Asia to America, and "Doggerland" was a huge area of land that connected the UK islands to mainland Europe. In those days, it was possible to walk from County Cork in Ireland all the way around the world to what is now Washington DC or the southern tip of Argentina on dry land.
Given the human proclivity to build cities on coasts, and the fact that what used to be those coasts is now sea bed, it's not impossible that any civilizations present at that time would leave remains which are at the bottom of the ocean now.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’