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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1016717 United States 06/30/2010 02:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sounds good to me! I just found this but, I have to go to work so....I'll pick this up when I get back. I remember reading about a city that was under the water off Cuba and ran up to under Miami. They were excavating. Then poof. Off the radar. Maybe I should list it under my "Odd News Stories" thread about news that goes down the memory hole. Quoting: UNLEASHED 971545Anyway. Possibly a land bridge that once connected Cuba with continental US where this city was? Later. Here is at least one article referring to the Cuba city. I highly doubt there were land bridges, unless constructed. I honestly do not know though. I've heard different theories, but I believe if Atlantis existed, it was a world wide empire consisting of 10 regions. The same 10 regions that are supposed to be emulated in the NWO. How else could the Mayans, Eqyptian pyramids, and the pyramids in Asia all be developed around the same time period, though architecture differs. [link to www.freerepublic.com] Evidence of ancient city found in depths off Cuba (best article yet) Toronto Globa and Mail ^ | 12/7/01 | MICHAEL POSNER Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:37:07 AM by spycatcher A team of Canadian and Cuban researchers have discovered the remains of what may be a 6,000-year-old city submerged in deep ocean waters off the western coast of Cuba. Using sophisticated sonar and videotape equipment, offshore engineer Paulina Zelitsky, her husband, Paul Weinzweig, and her son, Ernesto Tapanes, have found megaliths "of a kind you'd find at Stonehenge or Easter Island," Mr. Weinzweig said in an interview yesterday. "Some structures within the complex may be as long as 400 metres wide and as high as 40 metres," he said. "Some are sitting on top of each other. They show very distinct shapes and symmetrical designs of a non-natural kind. We've shown them to scientists in Cuba, the U.S. and elsewhere, and nobody has suggested they are natural." Moreover, an anthropologist affiliated with the Cuban Academy of Sciences has said that still photos taken from the videotape clearly show "symbols and inscriptions," Mr. Weinzweig said. It is not yet known in what language the inscriptions are written. The sonar images, he added, bear a remarkable resemblance to the pyramidal design of Mayan and Aztec temples in Mexico. Mr. Weinzweig said it is too early to draw firm conclusions from the evidence collected so far. The research team plans another foray to the site -- off the Guanahacabibes Peninsula on Cuba's western tip -- next month. Next summer, it hopes to return again, this time with the first deep-water mobile excavator, equipped with functions needed for on-site archeological evaluation, including the ability to blow sand off stone. Geologists have recently hypothesized that a land bridge once connected Cuba to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. And portions of the Cuban island are believed to have been submerged in the sea on three separate occasions in the distant past. The structures are on a plateau that forms the bottom of what is thought to be a mud volcano, 650 to 700 metres beneath the surface of the ocean and along what is clearly a geological fault line. "It's well known that ancient civilizations liked to build at the base of volcanoes, because the land is fertile. So that's suggestive," Mr. Weinzweig said. One tantalizing possibility, entirely speculative for now, is that if the legendary sunken continent of Atlantis is ever proven to have existed, these structures may have been submerged during the same cataclysm. Mr. Weinzweig simply says that more information is needed. "We'd prefer to stay away from that subject. This is something of great potential scientific interest, but it must involve serious authorities on ancient civilizations." The precise age of the underwater site is also unknown, although Cuban archeologists in 1966 excavated a land-based megalithic structure on the western coast, close to the new underwater discovery, said to date from 4000 BC. "Based on that and other geological information, we're speculating that these are 6,000 years old," he explained. "It's not exact, but they're very ancient." If that dating estimate proves accurate, it would mean that an ancient civilization had designed and erected these vast stone structures in the Americas only 500 years after human settlements first became organized in cities and states. They would also have been built long before the wheel was invented in Sumeria (3500 BC), or the sundial in Egypt (3000 BC). The three pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau are thought to have been constructed between 2900 and 2200 BC. The couple's Havana-based company, Advanced Digital Communications, discovered the site in July of 2000, using side-scan sonar equipment to view what resembled an underwater city, complete with roads, buildings and pyramids. The team returned this past summer with a 1.3-tonne, unmanned Remotely Operated Vehicle, controlled from the mother ship via fibre-optic cable. Its cameras confirmed the earlier findings, showing vast granite-like blocks, between two and five metres in length, that were cut in perpendicular and circular designs. But because of technical problems, Mr. Weinzweig said, "we were only able to survey the perimeter of the site. Based on initial explorations, we think it's much larger than even our sonar projections show. It may extend for several kilometres." In addition to the archeological site, ADC has been exploring what Mr. Weinzweig calls "the richest underwater cemetery in the world" for sunken Spanish galleons. Hundreds of treasure-bearing ships are said to lie around the island, several hundred to several thousand metres deep. Last year, off Havana Bay, it found the remains of USS Maine, the battleship that blew up in 1898. That incident, never entirely explained, killed 260 sailors and precipitated the Spanish-American War. |
Krispy71 User ID: 962920 Netherlands 06/30/2010 03:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WOW!!! The mayor of the parish in LA just ripped Obama a new one!! He said people dont believe he his sincere about trying to help protect the wetlands from the oilspill and that General McChrystal is just the tip of the iceberg of the anti-Obama sentiment in the military.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1011176Cant believe I just saw that live on CNN Anderson Cooper- just wow!! Things are getting ugly very fast !!! WOW ...lol.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1015473 United States 06/30/2010 03:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | To the OP: The Gulf is a very calm body of water. There are hardly any waves on any of the beaches 1 foot max when no hurricanes are around. The water doesn't move around that fast. How big is the gulf of mexico? (Volume cubic feet? anyone?) I'm sure 4 millions gallons is nothing in comparison. The massive amounts of corexit they are spraying directly at the leak are causing a large amount of the oil to sink (along with all the dead fishies). 100k barrels a day are not floating to the ocean surface I agree with you on that. |
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