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Ryst Helmut
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Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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| captain kirk wrote: |
| If you search for the Okinawa Undersea Ruins they are believed to be from before the glacial thaw (last ice age, 12,000 years ago). Same sort of mega stone architecture. |
The Discovery Channel or History Channel (US stations) have an hour documentary on Yonaguni....quite interesting. Here's what 10 seconds of searching came up with....
http://www.toriitraining.com/yonaguni.htm
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=yonaguni&search=Search
!shoosh,
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Hollywoodaction
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Just came across this thread. Very interesting stuff. I haven't had time to explore the various links yet.
I have stayed in Okinawa for about 8 months though -- through about 5 different trips there. It's an amazing place.
The place where the underwater formation is is nowhere near Japan. It's off the coast of an island called Yonaguni. This island is 125 km from the coast of Taiwan. Okinawa is a long island chain. The island of Yonaguni is very far from the main Okinawan island. It is easier to go back and forth from the main island of Okinawa to Japan than it is to go from Okinawa main island to its outer islands -- or so I've read in an Okinawa history book. The outer islands of Okinawa are much closer to China, Phillipines, and even closer to Korea than most of Japan. So, when considering any possible ancient civilization, my limited knowledge suggests that it's not connected to ancient Japanese culture per se.
More for humor than anything, I'm adding this picture of the "breast mountains" taken during my stay on Miyako island, in Okinawa. Can you the two little hills well-spaced from each other? The island is quite flat, so some people suggest ththese hills must have been manmade. They look like giant funeral mounds.
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I read somewhere that there are lots of these mounds in Japan that are not excavated because every time they do, they find evidence that the local nobility had Korean roots. |
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Soul Forest
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul Forest
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| More for humor than anything, I'm adding this picture of the "breast mountains" taken during my stay on Miyako island, in Okinawa. Can you the two little hills well-spaced from each other? The island is quite flat, so some people suggest ththese hills must have been manmade. They look like giant funeral mounds. |
Wow. I went to Miyakojima myself. I flew from Okinawa and stayed there for 3 days. Absolutely loved the place. Very beautiful with friendly people. I'd love to work there as an English teacher. I regret not having tried to find out if that was possible when I was there. 
I'll try and post some pictures later. |
Miyakojima is awesome. I've never met anyone outside of Japan who has been there. I lucked into discovering the place after my first year of teaching in Tokyo in mid-2000. I further lucked into free accomodation, and stayed for three months. Went back there in 2003, and stayed for three more months. There's only three or four teaching jobs there outside of the JET program, and most of those teaching jobs are done by ex-JETs.
I'm making a lot of video from my time there. The video I've done so far (though I'm going to re-edit most of it) is at:
www.efeele.com/pacres/
Would be cool to see some of your pictures. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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I read this little factoid in the trivia section of the wikipedia's mars face article:
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| In the animated television show Futurama, the great stone face of Mars is one of the two entrances to the underground home of the Martian natives. The second entrance is the "Great Stone Ass", but it is on the other side of the planet. |
hehe. futurama was a good show. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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Has anybody else heard about similar underwater structures off the coast of India. More precisely Gujarat.
The thinng is the majority of scientists beleive human civilization began roughly 10-12,000 years ago with the advent of the neolithic revolution.
When humankind became a slave of the seed.
This consiquently is the precise time when the glaciers were retreating.
Now I believe human kind was civilized prior to this during the past ice age in small poctets around the world.
Where? Well on the coastlines around the world where most human beings settle to this day.
Therefore when the polar ice caps began to melt and ocean levels began to rise entire civilizations along the ocean/sea coasts were likely wiped out. |
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mindmetoo
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| endo wrote: |
| Has anybody else heard about similar underwater structures off the coast of India. More precisely Gujarat. |
Well, anyone can claim anything. |
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endo
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igotthisguitar
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| endo wrote: |
| Well anyone can make a smart azz comment and then look like a fool afterwards. |
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mindmetoo
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I don't see anything in there about "structures":
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| The acoustic imaging has identified a nine-kilometre-long stretch of what was once a river but is now 40 metres beneath the sea. The site is surrounded by evidence of extensive human settlement. Carved wood, pottery, beads, broken pieces of sculpture and human teeth have been retrieved from along the river banks, according to a report in the Indian Express newspaper. Carbon dating of one of the wooden samples has dated the site to around 7500 BC. |
It's about evidence of a large settlement. Interesting of course. But no surprise science rolls back dates when humans stopped being nomadic and settled in one place. Science sets dates based upon the best current evidence. Doesn't preclude anything.
But yes, thank you for making a nebulous claim and then backing it up with some links so we don't have to read your mind. If prompting you to back a claim is being smart ass or looking like a fool later, oh well. At least you got off your duff. |
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endo
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
I don't see anything in there about "structures":
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| The acoustic imaging has identified a nine-kilometre-long stretch of what was once a river but is now 40 metres beneath the sea. The site is surrounded by evidence of extensive human settlement. Carved wood, pottery, beads, broken pieces of sculpture and human teeth have been retrieved from along the river banks, according to a report in the Indian Express newspaper. Carbon dating of one of the wooden samples has dated the site to around 7500 BC. |
It's about evidence of a large settlement. Interesting of course. But no surprise science rolls back dates when humans stopped being nomadic and settled in one place. Science sets dates based upon the best current evidence. Doesn't preclude anything.
But yes, thank you for making a nebulous claim and then backing it up with some links so we don't have to read your mind. If prompting you to back a claim is being smart ass or looking like a fool later, oh well. At least you got off your duff. |
Yeah whatever smart azz  |
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