From: William Sawers <ufsyntax.nul>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:50:27 +1000
Fwd Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:02:42 -0400
Subject: Re: Ancient Piri Reis Map And UFOs? - Sawers


>From: Martin Shough <parcellular.nul>
>To: <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:50:22 +0100
>Subject: Re: Ancient Piri Reis Map And UFOs?

>>From: Bob Shell <bob.nul>
>>To: ufoupdates.nul
>>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:35:44 -0400
>>Subject: Re: Ancient Piri Reis Map And UFOs?

><snip>

>>Personally, I believe we will one day find the proof of a highly
>>advanced but geographically limited civilization that thrived
>>and went far in the sciences before the last major ice age. We
>>have not yet found the evidence of this civilization because we
>>have not yet looked in the right place. Maybe the evidence is
>>under the very ice that's missing from old Piri's map.

>If the Antarctic ice sheet should shrink back, one of these
>increasingly fine days, to reveal the gilded towers of a
>fabulous lost civilisation, I wonder how future historians would
>weigh that discovery in the balance against the cost of global
>climate change? On a practical note, I hope the place is
>preserved in good nick because we may all have to move there!
>:-)


Hi

Shades of HP Lovecraft and his tales of ancient civilizations in
the Antarctic. Perhaps Mac Tonnies' look at Cryptoterrestrial
Hypothesis or Convergent Evolution may be worth another look if
the Piri Map is to be taken seriously.

William



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