pinefox are you on the right board lol
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
toss up between destruction of atlantis and the extinction of the dinosaurs by their invention of the atomic bomb
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Ice Age, duh
― Tom D., Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"the extinction of the dinosaurs by their invention of the atomic bomb"
roughly contemporaneous if you believe ken ham
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
and i do
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I read this book crazy book where this guy theorized dinosaurs evolved an advanced civilization at the end of Cretaceous which was destroyed by their own bombs and moved underground with their UFO's which they continue to use to this day. Somehow human males' lack of a penis bone was evidence of this.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
no i'm fairly sure pompeii began as the result of a buried cheese
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
With reasoning that airtight, I'm sure the reptilian overlords have since quietly "removed" the book and it's author.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://fatadelic.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/planetofapes.jpg
― Tom D., Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I always was fascinated by the ancient mystery of the missing colony of Roanoke, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh off the coast of what became North Carolina -- who then apparently forgot to send them any supplies for three years. This was 1585, 20 years before Jamestown and 40 years before pilgrims landed in Massachusetts.
When supplies finally came, the only evidence that anyone had ever been there was a tree that had been carved with the unrecognizable word, "CROATAN".
-- Tracer Hand, Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:25 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
yes this is freaky
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
still i'm not sure custer's last stand is an "ancient disaster" along the lines of pompeii?
aw who cares.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Croatan was actually a local indian tribe
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i think it was a sign to their buddies back in england about where they'd gone to, but a hurricane intervened before they could be found; most people think they "integrated" with the croatans/hatteras indians
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Roanoke mystery is pretty cool (and the basis for a rather excellent comic book series.)
Not sure this counts, but isn't there some theory that when the mediterranean valley became the mediterranean sea that was the basis for all subsequent flood myths because ppl were living there already and the survivors were the duders who actually went a started shit up in the tigris/euphrates/indus area that we now think of as the earliest civilization.
Because, THAT!
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, for recent human instigated stuff (non-war division) the Texas City fertilizer kablooey is pretty wicked.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
speaking of subterranean dino civilizations
http://io9.com/380198/dennis-hopper-with-a-deevolution-machine-++-what-could-go-wrong
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep and "Croatoan" was on the tree (note spelling)
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatoan_Island
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
what board is this thread on? it just doesn't show up anymore. it's like Bigfoot.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i knew i should've kept my mouth shut about our reptilian masters
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://photos9.flickr.com/13128006_f9c7a6cf1a_m.jpg
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
pinefox it shows up for me fine!
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=40
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Scott of the Antarctic I AM GOING OUT I MAY BE SOME TIME BYE BYE
Aw c'mon! um, 5 people dying at the South Pole because LOL they had no idea how to ski or use snowshoes is not a "disaster"
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
What was disastrous about the Erebus and Terror?
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Franklin Expedition, right? That was a disaster.
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Santorini/Thera
― Michael White, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah Scott was no disaster, but I ended up voting for it because for me it's the most interesting of those listed
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll admit that a few of them don't really qualify as either "ancient" or "disaster", really the only thing that connects them is "bad shit that happened long before I was born, that thrilled me and gave me the fear when I was a kid" Most of them seem to have some kind of hubris clobbered by nemesis thing going on as well.
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Did anyone else see the Pompeii exhibit at a museum? It was travelling around in the '80's - before most of you were born, I know. I was young when I saw it, and remain scarred to this day by viewing the mummified corpses. So I voted for Pompeii.
― aimurchie, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Black Death massively upped wages for surviving peasants and arguably kickstarted the death of Feudalism in England so I vote it not a disaster
what is a few dozen million deaths? You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
are you after writing in a vote for The Great Hunger?
still no sight of this thread on New Answers - seriously. I have never known the like of it.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The Great Fire of London
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, the Nika Riots. Roughly 30000 killed.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
The first five extinction events (all life on earth nearly wiped out, again and again) were pretty big deals too, I'd say.
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
nika riots are intense!! it's like a 50's greaser movie times a billion, and in uh constantinople in the 6th cent.
black death doesn't count cos there wasn't a "the" black death, the bubonic plague broke out in several different times and places over a few hundred years.
― gff, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Has this thread now vanished for everyone else too?
It really has not been visible to me since it was brand new.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
check your preferences. do you have polls hidden?
― gff, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"Croatan" = "Nat, a orc" backwards.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 17 April 2008 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a creepy thread.
― aimurchie, Thursday, 17 April 2008 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
bigscale fave
smallscale fave
― balls, Thursday, 17 April 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
creepy in a good way.
― aimurchie, Friday, 18 April 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
pompeii can eat a classically educated dick
― DG, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Bubonic plague did indeed break out during different centuries, but as far as I know only one of these outbreaks is called the Black Death, and that was the plague that spread in Europe between 1347 and 1351, killing 30-60 percent of European population. I think the timeframe is narrow enough to say it was a particular event, certainly it was recorded in history as one.
― Tuomas, Monday, 21 April 2008 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah!
― James Morrison, Monday, 21 April 2008 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
is anyone watching "The Terror" (fictionalised version of the Franklin expedition, complete with added lovecraftian HORROR* i believe)
based on dan simmons' 2007 novel, which i haven't read
if so NO SPOILERS but is it any good? i was just rereading david c. woodman's two excellent books on how the inuit reported on this disaster (which completely changes the story) (and does include some weird shit, if not quite lovecraftian)
― mark s, Friday, 14 September 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
erebus and terror robbed in this poll btw
― mark s, Friday, 14 September 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
I just checked the novel out of the library last week after seeing it recommended on some Greatest Horror Novels list. Have not yet cracked it.
― how's life, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
I don't know why they needed to add any HORROR, when the story already has a horrific blend of peak BE officer classes, cannibalism, pneumonia, scurvy, lead poisoning, the unremitting sub-zero winds etc...
― calzino, Friday, 14 September 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
disasters 3-8 explained
― mark s, Friday, 14 September 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
FACT: The first sunglasses date back to the prehistoric Inuits who wore flattened walrus ivory specks, looking through narrow slits to block the haters/any and all bullsh*t to live their absolute best life pic.twitter.com/RNL4YgMtl7— jeff (@dquyanna) May 31, 2019
― mark s, Friday, 31 May 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
Growing up my Gramma would tell me about white explorers who clawed out their eyes from the pain of going snow blind. The snow will bounce the UV directly into your eye sockets and even closing your eyes won't help.— James Jimmy Jim (@KnikCage) May 31, 2019
― mark s, Friday, 31 May 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
yes i am reading the franklin books again
amundsen wore a version of these inuit sunscreen glasses (and also when relevant travelled by night when the sun would be behind them) vsscott ... did not
― mark s, Friday, 31 May 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
powered up youtube to watch a slew of mostly terrible "documentaries" about franklin via inuit testimony -- including a video of a talk by david c.woodman to accompany the franklin exhibition that greenwich maritime museum put on in 2018-19 which then toured to canada: woodman wrote the book that put inuit testimony upfront (two books in fact) and is a big cheery bear of a man whose life's dream (finding erebus and terror) worked out p well (erebus was found on the sea bed not far from where he thought it would be; terror was found sunk in terror bay and not -- as he thought -- in erebus bay) (erebus ba is also not where erebus was found and terror bay wasn't called that bcz the terror was sunk there)
woodman could not work his powerpoint slides and talked almost as much abt that as about the topic at hand (why was inuit testimony ignored for so long: ans = it wasn't really, it just too until the 21st century for the technology to back up what the inuit had always been saying) (which some people had believed and others had not)
anyway the exciting thing is that he believes the famous big corpse with very long teeth may yet be discovered on one of the wrecks (most likely terror) and that the vaults with the log books exist and will one day also be found
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
i also watched half of a very bad youtube on how the first searches were organised, with a terrible narrator and no hint that the iced up ships were remanned and sailed on from the place they first froze into the ice and have now been tracked down. the one good anecdote was that some prankster claimed a franklin message balloon had come to earth in their gloucester garden in 1851. franklin had no such balloons tho they were used in some of the searches for him, and they weren't -- as the youtube vid said -- "helium balloons", bcz helium wasn't theorised for another 15 years and only isolated in the 1890s
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link
I know a song about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9H-Jt7_OJE
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link