
some food for thought for the weekend (I tried to clean up the translation a little bit):"This seems to be impossible. Scientists of Bashkir State University have found indisputable proof[] of an ancient highly developed civilization’s existence. The question is about a great plate found in 1999, with picture of the region done according to an unknown technology. This is a real relief map. Today’s military has almost similar maps. The map contains civil engineering works: a system of channels with a length of about 12,000 km, weirs, powerful dams. Not far from the channels, diamond-shaped [symbols] are shown, whose [significance are] unknown. The map also contains some inscriptions. Even [numbered] inscriptions. At first, the scientists thought that was Old Chinese language. Though, it turned out that the [in]scriptions were done in a hieroglyphic-syllabic language of unknown origin. The scientists never managed to read it…
'The more I learn the more I understand that I know nothing,' " the doctor of physical and mathematical science, professor of Bashkir State University, Alexandr Chuvyrov admits."
They date the stone slab to 120 million years ago. Although the method, I think, is specious:
"While examining the stone, two shells were found on its surface. The age of one of them " Navicopsina munitus of Gyrodeidae family - is about 500 million years, while of the second one " Ecculiomphalus princeps of Ecculiomphalinae subfamily - is about 120 million years. Namely that age was accepted as a 'working version.' 'The map was probably created at the time when the Earth’s magnetic pole was situated in the today’s area of Franz Josef Land, [which] was exactly 120 million years ago,' - professor Chuvyrov says. " 'The map we have is beyond [the] traditional perception of mankind and we need a long time to get used to it. [] At first we thought that the stone was about 3,000 years. Though, that age was gradually [increasing], till we identified the shells ingrained in the stone to sign[ify] some objects. Though, who could guarantee that the shell was alive while being ingrained in the map? The map’s creator probably used a petrified find.”
So, it probably isn't as old as they claim, but its got to be pretty old.
The most interesting part of the story is the fact that there isn't this one singular piece, but several hundred others. And together these fragments once formed a large 3-D relief map of the earth. Wow! And get this:
"Materials of the Bashkir find were already investigated in Centre of Historical Cartography in Visconsin, USA. The Americans were amazed. According to them, such [a] three-dimensional map could have only one [purpose] " a navigational one, while it could be worked out only through aerospace survey. Moreover, namely now in the US, work is being carried out at creation of [a] world three-dimensional map like that. Though, the Americans intend to complete the work [by] 2010. The question is that while compiling such three-dimensional map, it is necessary to work over too many figures. 'Try to map at least a mountain!' " Chuvyrov says. " 'The technology of compiling such maps demands super-power computers and aerospace survey from the Shuttle.' So, who then did created this map? Chuvyrov, while speaking about the unknown cartographers, is wary: 'I do not like talks about some UFO and extraterrestrial. Let us call the author of the map simply " the creator.'"
So, they find a fragment of a 3-D relief map of the earth which could only have been made through aerial survey, for the use as a navigational tool, "machined" using an unknown advanced process, and probably dated to the earliest times of antiquity.
I for one am dumb-founded.
- A find of Bashkir scientists contradicts traditional notions of human history: stone slab which is 120 million years old covered with the relief map o (Open in New Window)
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Topic - How old are we, where did we come from.... - Jose R 13:50:50 05/03/02 (10)
- 'The more I learn the more I understand that I know nothing,'"... - Daryl R 19:28:45 05/03/02 (0)
- Fodder for Art Bell - shipguy 15:57:45 05/03/02 (0)
- Where is the National Inquirer when you need it? - gd 14:27:45 05/03/02 (2)
- "Why leave things carved in stone around all the time?" - clarkjohnsen 07:53:59 05/04/02 (0)
- Re: “ancient language” - brinkmann 14:37:20 05/03/02 (0)
- Re: Maybe Douglas Adams was right... - Saurav 14:10:38 05/03/02 (4)
- Arthur Dent was worried they were his ancestors, but they weren't..nt.. - late 15:05:56 05/03/02 (1)
- Re: I see.. detail retrieval from that period of my life is a little... handicapped ;) (nt) - Saurav 15:17:58 05/03/02 (0)
- Ya mean that we're all Aussies??? (nt) - brinkmann 14:20:33 05/03/02 (1)
- CRIKEY!!! NT - Eric Fischer 18:47:00 05/03/02 (0)