Online media CNET released a somewhat shocking news on May 5, 2022, that the deep-sea exploration submarine Nautilus found a mysterious "yellow brick paved" road at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, which seems to lead to a mysterious unknown world!
The mysterious "Yellow Brick Road": How exactly did it come into being?
Nautilus is a French deep submersible developed in 1984, with a maximum depth of 6,000 meters, and has so far dived more than 1,700 times, covering 97% of the world's waters.
Nautilus parameters
Although the Nautilus is not very good at present, it is very productive, and here are some of its parameters:
- Working depth: 6000m
- Size: Length 8.00m, width 2.7m, height 3.81m, weight: 19.5t
- Manned sphere: capacity: 3 people, internal diameter: 2.1m, material: titanium alloy
- Portholes: 3 (diameter 120mm)
Therefore, you can often see the Nautilus's submarine diving video on the Tubing, and its magical underwater creatures are breathtaking, such as seeing a strange purple sphere in 2016, seeing a cute octopus in 2018, etc., which will arouse great public interest!
The submarine recently discovered a mysterious underwater world in the Lili'uokalani Ridge area near Papahānaumokuakea, Hawaii, when the Nautilus deep submersible was moving along the seabed of the Nutka Seamount, when suddenly a road paved with what appeared to be some kind of regular slate appeared in front of it, very similar to the early Stone Road in China (in fact, there was such a road in ancient Europe).
Some areas have been somewhat damaged, but the "roadbed" can still be seen, the stones are not the same size, but the longitudinal lines are relatively regular, as if they were laid in some distant era.
Seeing such an unimaginable scene, the scientists in the submarine could not help but exhale, after all, such a scene is really beyond imagination, and the response after being uploaded to the YouTube is even stronger, and many readers immediately think of prehistoric civilizations, such as the disappeared Atlantis and Mu continent civilizations, and even the Limoria civilization has thought of it, so does it really matter?
Obviously, this is not possible, but scientists still carefully analyzed this phenomenon and confirmed that it should be a rupture flow of vitreous rock, which is a regular rupture phenomenon caused by the condensation of the lava flow in the lava flow of the submarine volcano eruption on the seabed, which looks very similar to the "yellow brick road" or stone road you imagine.
It is no wonder that the reader imagines that this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that is very naturally associated when it appears at the bottom of the sea.
The legendary underwater civilization: does it really exist?
Maybe you are not used to this routine, the beginning of the suspense, the middle of the water, the end of the "approaching science" routine flower planters do not like, the following along the "yellow brick road" thinking to talk about the bottom of the global ocean, is there really an undersea civilization?
What are the legendary undersea civilizations?
In fact, it should be described in this way, there is no so-called underwater civilization, but there are legends that prehistoric civilizations sank underwater, and the following prehistoric civilizations must be thunderous to everyone:
- Atlantis
- The continent of Remlia
- Mu Continent
Atlantis first appeared in the dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, where it is said to have been destroyed by the Great Flood around 10,000 BC and sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Plato's most recent work, Timaius
Its location is widely disputed, for example, some believe that it is in the south of Cyprus, and some are in the waters of Crete, but these are in the bath of the Mediterranean, and the more accepted location is speculated to be in the Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica, and many enthusiasts have also drawn a very grand territory of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean:
Because the legend of Atlantis runs through almost the entire history of Western civilization, the artistic creation of Atlantis is endless, and the more easily accepted by the public is the film and television works, such as "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic", "Stargate - Atlantis" and "Adventures in the Center of the Earth", it is worth mentioning the first two, because this represents two kinds of thinking:
1. The Atlantean civilization has evolved the ability to survive underwater;
"The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" is actually a mistranslation of the title, the original title is "Man From Atlantis", that is, the man from Atlantis, the plot is a tsunami after a mysterious man is washed up on the beach, found that his appearance is consistent with that of humans, but the internal structure of his body is very different.
For example, he can adapt to the survival of the deep sea, but also underwater with gills to breathe, in addition to living under high water pressure, where there is water, the power is infinite, etc., in fact, this imagination is completely wrong, the body of deep-sea fish is soft and spongy, and even "weak and boneless", such as squid and so on.
And can adapt to the high water pressure survival of life once it reaches the surface of the water will occur decompression sickness, in addition to long-term underwater survival, due to the buoyancy of the water and other internal organs are relatively easy to stretch, after reaching the ground is oppressed, it is difficult to survive. Therefore, this imagination is unrealistic.
2, The Atlantean civilization has extremely advanced technology
"Stargate- Atlantis" describes a world in which the Atlantean civilization has expanded into the universe, spaceships, stargates similar to wormhole mechanisms, etc., and human scientists have also discovered at the bottom of the Antarctic ice that the Atlantean civilization left behind the technology that Nanli understood, such as mind-controlled aircraft and weapons, and there are few people in humans who can achieve "high-level thinking ability" with mind control.
The play sets up a fictional universe, but there is no doubt that this is an extension of the most beautiful myth of Atlantis, and the public acceptance is also very high, so the stargate fans are still "cohesive" very high, of course, the flower grower is also waiting for "Stargate: Universe" to produce a sequel, want to see what the end of the universe looks like after the "Destiny" penetrates the cosmic microwave background radiation.
But it is a great pity that everything in Atlantis may stem from Plato's imagination of the ideal state, he set up a country that only existed in dialogue, a beautiful imagination of the country and system that he longed for in his heart, in order to better accept and harm himself, so he used this fictitious historical way to describe, but Plato played away and became a history of "facts may exist", and countless historians are chasing this fictional history to add fuel to it!
Lemuria (Remria)
This is a continent proposed by the zoologist Philip Sclater in 1864, which sank beneath the Indian Ocean, when he tried to explain why lemur fossils existed in both Madagascar and India, but not in Africa and the Middle East, thus hypothesizing that there might have been a continent between India and Madagascar in prehistory.
The British mysticist author and inventor James Churchward has created many works on this basis, he calls this continent Mu, the great god is very prolific, the following are his magnificent works in less than 10 years:
The Lost Continent of Mu: The Motherland of Mankind (1926), The Children of Mu (1931), The Divine Symbol of Mu (1933), The Cosmic Power of Mu (1934), and Mu's Cosmic Power Second Book (1935)
Martian Boy and the continent of Lemuria
The legend of the continent of Lemuria, in addition to the works of the Great God of England, must be the most famous martian boy in recent times, because he has always claimed to be a Martian in his previous life, when he was busy with trade between Earth and Mars.
He flew a mysteriously powered spaceship that could travel between Earth and Mars in a very short time, and traded with him at that time with the Lemurian civilization, a continent located in the Indian Ocean, and the Lemurians were tall, between 2 and 3 meters tall.
The narrative that follows is that there was a super flood on Earth, the Lemurian civilization disappeared beneath the surface of the sea overnight, and Mars also had a nuclear war, the atmosphere disappeared, and Mars became what it is now.
There are many logical questions about this, first of all, 2 to 3 meters tall human beings have never seen its skeleton or fossils, and there will not be so much water on the earth, especially the water that submerges a continent, the other is a civilization that has developed to interstellar trade, and no matter how big the flood will have civilization, otherwise what is the use of technology? Planes, ships, satellites, etc., where to go, obviously Atlantis also has this big loophole.
Crucially, of course, in the 1960s, the scientific community accepted Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift proposed in 1912, and the theory of Lemuria was difficult to stand, but this idea still existed in the popular imagination, especially in the theory of mystics.
Mu continent
The mythical concept of the "Kingdom of Mu" first appeared in the work of the Anglo-American antiquarian Augustus Le Plongeon (1825-1908), which he proposed after investigating the Mayan ruins in Yucatan, imagining the continent in the Pacific Ocean:
The east-west direction stretches from the Mariana Islands to Easter Island, and from north-south to Hawaii to Mangaya. According to Church Ward, the continent is about 5,000 miles long from east to west and more than 3,000 miles from north to south, larger than South America. The continent is considered flat, with vast plains, vast rivers, rolling hills, large bays and estuaries
The continent was lifted above sea level by the expansion of underground volcanic gases, but sank to the bottom of the sea "almost overnight", and after a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, "the shattered land fell into a sea of great fire" and was covered by "fifty million square miles of water"!
The continent is also the main occurrence of many science fiction novels, such as Graham Hancock's book "God's Fingerprint" and the Japanese super-robot animation "Leiting the Brave".
It must be reminded here that three civilizations, the three continents end up sinking underwater, but anyone who knows something about the geology of the earth and the tectonic movements and structure of the earth's crust must not believe this statement, because in a short time, a continent will neither sink nor be destroyed.
Even since 200 million years ago, there is no record of continent-level continents on Earth, and Earth does not have such a mechanism for the time being, and if it happens on this day, then the entire life on Earth may cease to exist.
Extended reading: Is there an undersea civilization?
Since there is no continent sinking to the bottom of the sea, it is also possible that intelligent creatures on the seabed are not? This is a difficult question to answer because it is difficult to solve by exclusion, after all, the ocean is so vast and theoretically it is indeed possible.
For example, marine mammals such as highly intelligent dolphins and killer whales, if they are allowed to develop for thousands of years, may appear more intelligent species than the current ones, such as orangutans on land, after the disappearance of humans, there may also be more intelligent "orangutans" than the current ones, but it is impossible for now, because humans have appeared!
Humans have now squeezed out most of the world's resources, and it is impossible to leave opportunities for the development of other species unless humans disappear! Therefore, this fact also excludes the possibility of prehistoric civilizations, because how did ancient civilizations develop, as long as they did not appear out of thin air, then their development will definitely use the resources of the earth, why are there so many oil and gas left for mankind?
From the development of intelligent creatures to civilization, in fact, there is a long way to go, the current dolphins are smart enough, but their road to civilization is too far, or even impossible, because the land has the advantage that the ocean does not have, making tools and using fire is the most important process of animals to humans, but also the cornerstone of the current development of human beings to the high level, marine life does not have such conditions at all.