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The Hunt for Earth’s Deep Hidden Oceans
- porjo 8y ago"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." - Genesis 7:11
- wavefunction 8y agoA scientific dead-end, then...
- nimchimpsky 8y agoMy favourite bits are the talking snake, and getting one of each animal on board.
- jdavis703 8y agoThere's some true and even good information in the bible (e.g. turn the other cheek when assaulted, treat foreigners as citizens, help the poor), but just because there are scientific facts contained in portions does not make the entire text correct (e.g. slaves obey your masters).
- saagarjha 8y agoI doubt the Bible had a team of geologists run seismic studies to find subterranean water reserves. It's just a coincidence.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoClearly not, but potentially not just coincidental either. There have been many theories suggesting that flood myths in cultures all over the world were inspired by actual floods[1], which actual geologists are working to uncover evidence of. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historici...
- atlantic 8y agoInteresting. I always had the impression that in the various flood myths, the waters always came from the heavens. Very perceptive of you to notice that they are also said to have come from the deep. Is this corroborated in other myths? Gilgamesh, for instance?
- WalterBright 8y agoStephen Baxter wrote an apocalyptic novel "Flood" about what happens if these oceans leak to the surface.
- KineticLensman 8y agoI'm afraid 'Flood' really annoyed me. The US Govt response was twofold: 1) start a starship programme and 2) make a deep underwater base for govt officials. Not the obvious 'build lots of boats'. And in a standard Baxter plot theme, the starship is then hijacked by lowlifes.
- atlantic 8y agoActually, government officials prioritizing their own survival sounds like an eminently realistic scenario.
- KineticLensman 8y agoYes, but they don't even try to help their guards' survival, so unsurprisingly things don't turn out well.
- WalterBright 8y agoDon't forget all the luxurious fallout shelters in the US built for government officials.