OT Scientists discover 'Zealandia' - a hidden continent off the coast of Australia

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    Geologists claim to have discovered a new continent to the east of Australia: Zealandia. At 4.9 million square kilometres of land mass, 94 per cent of which is under water, Zealandia would be the world's smallest continent.

    The 11 scientists behind the claim presented their findings in the study "Zealandia: Earth's Hidden Continent" in Geological Society of America, making a case for Zealandia to be recognised as the world's eighth continent in its own right.

    According to their study, the land mass comprises all the four attributes needed to be considered a continent, including the presence of different rock types and crucially "the high elevation relative to regions floored by oceanic crust."

    "It was not a sudden discovery but a gradual realisation," the scientists wrote.

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    An elevation map of Zealandia and nearby Australia CREDIT: GSA TODAY
    The term Zealandia was coined by geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk in 1995, at which time it was believed to possess three of the four necessary qualities required for continent status. A recent discovery using satellite technology and gravity maps of the sea floor have revealed that Zealandia is a large unified area, fulfilling all four requirements.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/16/scientists-discover-eighth-continent-zealandia/
     
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    I hereby declare myself King of Zealandia!
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    Gonae no do that.


    Just... gonae no.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    The Theosophists are gonna have field day with this.
     
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    So, how did they tow Atlantis so far to the south?
     
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    Damn you for making me google that.
     
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    Right? I googled it and I still don't understand why Nik would have that tucked away in the dark recesses of his mind.
     
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    Isn't that where Ringo fought Jack Gilford and ended up marrying Barbara Bach after the shoot ended?
     
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    Seen this before. A Nautical chart.
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    And I'll make the 3rd to do it(or at least admit it)....
     
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    I read ... a lot!

    Mainly, it's probably because I'm a fan of the old Weird Tales pulp of H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard -- all of that shit had a basis in Helena Blavatsky's Theosophical Society.
     
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    Ok, but what in this chart makes the connection?
     
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    A "lost continent?" That falls right out of the theories they put out in the late 1870s about several lost continents tens of thousands of years ago: Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, etc.
     
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    When I looked at it, I said, Oceania.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    That's like saying you are lying on top of everything else that drowned in the ocean there
     
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    see? global warming has been swallowing continents for thousands of years!
     
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    You are correct, for 20,000 years now. The last time this happened, around a 120,000 years ago, the Woolly Mammoth was in charge, but nobody blamed him, and his CO2 release was devastating.
     
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    i tried to let out a mammoth fart last night while sleeping. i ended up shitting myself. getting old sucks.
     
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