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So I got back to Colorado Springs Monday night. Very nice change....came from 95 degrees and humidity to 60 degrees and no bugs whatsoever :P. Went drinking with Allison and Jade the past couple of nights. Went to a bar called Rowdy's....penny pitchers are awesome. Hung out with Chris and Adam for my bday...was what I wanted, it was fun to catch up with them. Went to my cousin's wedding in Gautier, was decent, just that side of the familiy has some issues with my mom.
I'm rereading 'The Fingerprints of the Gods'. I forgot so much of the little stuff that was profound there. I'm gonna post the letter from the first page when I get home(I'm at Robinson Family Clinic atm, lunch break). But there are maps that date around the 14th century that accurately show the SUBGLACIAL(the landmass beneath the mile thick ice) coastline of Antarctica(which was 'officially' discovered in the 1800s). This means that the coastline was mapped before 4000 B.C. This was well before any recognized civilization emerged. And considering that cartography is part of a civilized society, who did this?
A theory was put forth(and endorsed by Alber Einstien) of 'continental shifting'. This differs from plate tectonics in that only the top layer of the earth is moved(similar to the skin of an orange moving independant of the orange). It is theorized that Antartica used to be 2000 miles north of its current position, putting it in the temperate zone. This also means the rest of the continents were shifted further north, which can help explain how Sweden was able to have glaciers long ago. As the continents shifted south, the icecaps melted in the north(raising sea levels) as the glacier slowly took over Antartica. But instead of this being millions of years ago, new evidence shows that it was thousands of years ago. Antartica could have been glacier free from 9000bc to 4000bc. A lot more to it, but I have to go back to work.
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I'm rereading 'The Fingerprints of the Gods'. I forgot so much of the little stuff that was profound there. I'm gonna post the letter from the first page when I get home(I'm at Robinson Family Clinic atm, lunch break). But there are maps that date around the 14th century that accurately show the SUBGLACIAL(the landmass beneath the mile thick ice) coastline of Antarctica(which was 'officially' discovered in the 1800s). This means that the coastline was mapped before 4000 B.C. This was well before any recognized civilization emerged. And considering that cartography is part of a civilized society, who did this?
A theory was put forth(and endorsed by Alber Einstien) of 'continental shifting'. This differs from plate tectonics in that only the top layer of the earth is moved(similar to the skin of an orange moving independant of the orange). It is theorized that Antartica used to be 2000 miles north of its current position, putting it in the temperate zone. This also means the rest of the continents were shifted further north, which can help explain how Sweden was able to have glaciers long ago. As the continents shifted south, the icecaps melted in the north(raising sea levels) as the glacier slowly took over Antartica. But instead of this being millions of years ago, new evidence shows that it was thousands of years ago. Antartica could have been glacier free from 9000bc to 4000bc. A lot more to it, but I have to go back to work.
zug zug