Megalithic shipping and trade routes

[Mick Harper]

The sea level rises. How?

Which sea level are you referring to? There are six in the world presently.

Is there a finite amount of sea? Or is it infinite?

It is a constant for practical purposes.

Where does the extra sea come from? What holds it up?

It is a constant so there is no 'extra'.

Or does the earth get flooded from space at regular intervals?

Not as far as I know.

And how much land was there and was it spread all over the planet or was it concentrated at one particular point, or for that matter at several points?

As I have already pointed out, the land area is constant though which parts happen to be covered by water varies from time to time.

[TisILeclerc]

Assuming you are correct in saying that there are six seas at present. What makes them rise?

[Mick Harper]

Assuming you are correct in saying that there are six seas at present.

I don't assume it, it is a geographic fact. Actually I think there are more than six, it's a long time since I examined them all.

What makes them rise?

Well, let's see. One of them, the world ocean, is currently rising because of melting ice. The Caspian is falling because of (I think) agricultural practices. The Dead Sea is falling because of (I think) urban water extraction. Lake Eyre seems to go up and down because of local rainfall. You can look all this up.

[Boreades]

Or does the earth get flooded from space at regular intervals?

Yes, from space, but at irregular intervals.

http://www.space.com/27969-earth-water- ... omets.html

[Mick Harper]

Well, I was referring to more recent aeons but since you mention it I generally pooh-pooh outer space -- it's so vast and so unknown that it becomes a dumping ground for anomalies in mistaken paradigms. My own view is that the water is terrestrial in origin and is an end-product of nuclear decay.

[Boreades]

My own view is that some of the water is terrestrial in origin and is an end-product of nuclear integration. Protons from space = Hydrogen ions, bombarding oxygen = H2O

[Mick Harper]

I bow to your knowledge in this area.

[Boreades]

Ordinarily, this might have been exciting TME-type news. International trade and shipping and all that.

Sutton Hoo bitumen links Syria with Anglo-Saxon England

Analysis of black organic fragments found in the Sutton Hoo boat burial has revealed they are bitumen from Syria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-38171657

Except the muppets have conveniently forgotten that Britain had tar shale and tar pits of its own to provide bitumen for boats. Some are still active and accessible.
e.g.

Put on your hard hat and venture underground into the eerie brick-lined tar tunnel. Treacle-like black bitumen is still oozing through the walls and welling up in puddles.
Step inside the Tar Tunnel and discover where miners digging in 1787 struck a spring of natural bitumen which has seeped out of the walls for over 200 years.
http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/our-attrac ... ar-tunnel/

[Mick Harper]

You'll have to clear up a small point. Since even academics know that bituminous deposits occur all over the world, they must have had some reason for alighting on Syria. What was that reason and why, in your opinion, does that reason embrace British deposits?

[Boreades]

Accustomed as I am to auditing how people handle data, it smells to me like the result of a flawed methodology. And a bit like "follow the pea".

How so? I will explain:

1) At the start, they had three samples from Sutton Hoo.

2) They mention 10 known sources to compare to:
(a) five British sources: Pitchford Bridge, Row Brook, Snail Beach, Mupe bay, Thurso
(b) five (at least) overseas sources: Albania, Syrian, Dead Sea, Hasbeya asphalt, Iraq (various)

3) So far, it sounds fairly balanced. 50/50 odds of it matching a UK source. But then...
4) they only did a full data sampling on one of the three samples from Sutton Hoo.
5) they only have a full & equivalent profile on four sources
The impact of this is to reduce the number of matchable & available sources from 10 to four (one British and three overseas).

6) At this point, the statistical odds are 3:1 in favour of an overseas match, regardless of the chemistry. Four known UK sources have been filtered-out.

My guess is there was a bit of "leading the witness". Like, can you find any similarity between this Sutton Hoo sample and these overseas samples? Just leave in one UK source as a "control" sample.

Here's their analysis chart:
(I'm assuming "nd" means no data)


ref: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl ... ne.0166276