Noah's flood: What happened to all the other people who knew how to make boats? [Spirituality & Religion]
Like none of them managed to float on a boat with supplies? Seems like it'd be a lot easier for a couple or a family to survive with 40 days of supplies if you weren't filling your boat with all the animals.
What do you reckon?
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[image=Did an Asteroid Impact Cause an Ancient Tsunami? https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14WAVE.html]
Most likely the thing that happened was there was a large meteor impact in 2800 BC in the Indian ocean. The waves generated would have channeled up the gulf of Oman and wiped out everything in that part of the world.
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At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.
On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction — toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.
The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world’s population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of sediment to land.
@Tastyfrzz That's so cool. I hadn't heard that explanation before. That would be terrifying an no wonder that people would make a world ending legend about it.
