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Old 02-06-2010, 09:25   #2
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Originally Posted by brown77 View Post
This quote sparked some some interesting weekend reading:

"Piri Reis 16th century Turkish Admiral's Map - 1531 A.D. accurately shows the topography of northern Antarctica (now covered by mile-high ice)...we didn't have ground penetrating radar until 1958... Check to see the last time Antarctica was not covered by ice and now you have found a mystery."
This must be part of the Global Warming thing.

I'm assuming that if water was not ice, it must be either vapor/steam or in liquid form resting easily in rivers or oceans. I don't see a problem with this.

Q: What did the world really look like in 1531?

A: Probably just greener.
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