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| what do you suppose this story will be tied to?
Hmm, I wonder what recent mud topic this might be related to?
I'm guessing the unicorns couldn't surf. http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...emediterranean http://www.livescience.com/forcesofn...t_tsunami.html
Towering Ancient Tsunami Devastated the Mediterranean
By Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 30 November 2006
07:57 am ET
A volcano avalanche in Sicily 8,000 years ago triggered a devastating tsunami taller than a 10-story building that spread across the entire Mediterranean Sea, slamming into the shores of three continents in only a few hours [image].
A new computer simulation of the ancient event reveals for the first time the enormity of the catastrophe and its far-reaching effects [video].
The Mt. Etna avalanche sent 6 cubic miles of rock and sediment tumbling into the water—enough material to cover the entire island of Manhattan in a layer of debris thicker than the Empire State Building is tall.
The mountain of rubble crashed into the water at more than 200 mph. It pummeled the sea bed, transformed thick layers of soft marine sediment into jelly and triggered an underwater mudslide that flowed for hundreds of miles.
Recreating an ancient disaster
To create their computer simulation, researchers at the National Institute of Geology and Volcanology in Italy used sonar-equipped boats to survey seafloor sediment displaced by the Mt. Etna avalanche.
Their recreation suggests the tsunami's waves reached heights of up to 130 feet and maximum speeds of up to 450 mph, making it more powerful than the Indonesian tsunami that killed more than 180,000 people in 2004.
The researchers have also linked the ancient tsunami with the mysterious abandonment of Atlit-Yam, a Neolithic village located along the coast of present-day Israel. When archeologists discovered the village about 20 years ago, they found evidence of a sudden evacuation, including a pile of fish that had been gutted and sorted but then left to rot.
"A tsunami was not suspected before," lead researcher Maria Pareschi told LiveScience.
Could happen today
According to Pareschi, if the same tsunami struck today, Southern Italy would be inundated within the first 15 minutes [image]. In one hour, the waves would reach Greece's western coasts. After an hour and a half, the city of Benghazi in Northern Africa would be hit. At the three and a half hour mark, the waves would have traversed the entire Mediterranean to reach the coasts of Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
Avalanches and minor eruptions still occur on Mt. Etna today, but so far, nothing approaching the magnitude of the ancient event.
"Should the Neolithic Etna tsunami have occurred today, the impact is tremendous because the Eastern Mediterranean coasts are very inhabited ones," Pereschi said.
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| Heh heh. He said "jelly."
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| 8000 years ago? Phaah. Everyone knows better than that.
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| it amazes me how they know exactly what happened when no one was there to see it.
hmmmmmm......yea, i'm gonna need those spread sheets...
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| i'm also thinking that a tsunami ought to have washed that pile of fish away 
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| No, they still had time to put it in tupperware and put it in the fridge. . . . .
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| Did this cause "the flood"?
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Originally Posted by tcb  Did this cause "the flood"? |
No, no. The flood was in 2448 BC.  http://users.bigpond.com/rdoolan/flooddate.html
This happened 2000 years before the Creation.
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Originally Posted by IDave | And did we ever come to a consensus on what " " means?
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Originally Posted by tcb That is blasphemy! | What, you're sayin' God couldn't have created something before s/he created something else? Then, maybe had a hissy fit (like Jman does) and tore it all up and started fresh without dinosaurs?
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Originally Posted by IDave What, you're sayin' God couldn't have created something before s/he created something else? Then, maybe had a hissy fit (like Jman does) and tore it all up and started fresh without dinosaurs? | Good point!  I guess s/he invented the mulligan before inventing Golf..... BRILLIANT!
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Originally Posted by IDave What, you're sayin' God couldn't have created something before s/he created something else? Then, maybe had a hissy fit (like Jman does) and tore it all up and started fresh without dinosaurs? | Kind of off topic, but do multiple monkey avitars like me, FZJFillmore, and Darwood posting on the same thread confuse the hell out of you like your avitar and semlin's confuse the hell out of me??
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Originally Posted by tcb Good point! I guess s/he invented the mulligan before inventing Golf..... BRILLIANT! | Just so. I mean, why not start with the best!?
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Originally Posted by tcb Kind of off topic, but do multiple monkey avitars like me, FZJFillmore, and Darwood posting on the same thread confuse the hell out of you like your avitar and semlin's confuse the hell out of me??
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One Monkey | no, I mean I don't even have a dog so why would the avatar confuse me?
btw, your monkey looks just like the early human on the cover of national geographic last month. I tried to find a photo of it online but couldn't.
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Originally Posted by Noah you know nothing about Unicorns...... |
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Originally Posted by semlin no, I mean I don't even have a dog so why would the avatar confuse me?
btw, your monkey looks just like the early human on the cover of national geographic last month. I tried to find a photo of it online but couldn't. | Yeah, he is just one evolutionary step below Encino Man. He was the first monkey in space.... The pic was snapped right after he shit his diaper.
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