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Fortean Blogscan 09-06-2009

A strange assortment to get you through the week…

Enjoy!

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  1. Roswell
    A minor, irrelevant, early Cold War very likely staged military intelligence event only important now to a small cottage industry of “researchers” and the town of Roswell for whom it serves as a reliable cash cow.

  2. Sardinia Pyramid
    I have wondered if the Mediterranean was partially/mostly dry in the ancient past. At some point, rising sea levels in the Atlantic poured into the basin isolating places like Sardinia, Malta, and Cyprus. Such an event could have led to the Black Sea flood that has been much commented on.

    Communities could have been wiped out or left with a small island compared to their previous lands. Maybe there are lost civilizations laying in the mud and sand under all those cool Roman and Greek shipwrecks.

    The Sardinians could have been left with only their highest pyramid/site and the remnants of their former culture. It would go a long way toward explaining anomalies like those in the article.

    1. it was
      I believe that some considerable time ago, most of the Med was in fact dry. Both Gibraltar and the Bosporus were closed. I don’t recall the source for this, it was a long time ago that I read this.

      With the current climate, and I believe most past climates, the Med evaporates more water than the various rivers put into it. Hence the water level would me much lower, and some of the islands would be connected to the mainland. That’s how elephants got to some of them. But if I remember correctly, the Gibraltar straight opened a very long time ago, as in millions of years. The Bosporus only about 7000 years ago, or was it 7000 BC?

      The current fashion of dating things in years BP (Before Present) seems silly to me. Present it not a fixed point in time.

      —-
      It is not how fast you go
      it is when you get there.

      1. Earthling, I agree
        As far as I know “Before Present” is a date fixed (for reasons unknown) as 1957. Books and/or articles that persist in using this arbitrary time marker instead of standard measure p**s me off as one has to continually calculate the period to which they are referring.

        Regards, Kathrinn

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