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On 28 November 1979, the fourteenth flight of TE-901, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, registration ZK-NZP, flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board.
Erebus was one of the primordial deities in Greek mythology, born out of the primeval void, Chaos. It was the personification of the deep darkness and shadows. Erebus was the brother of Gaea (earth), Tartarus (underworld), Eros (love), and Nyx (night). From the union of Erebus and Nyx, various children were produced, including Aether, Hemera (day), Hypnos (sleep), the Moirai (the Fates), Geras (old age) and Thanatos (death). The word Erebus was also used to indicate a region of the Underworld where the dead would go immediately after dying.
Mount Erebus is currently the most active volcano in Antarctica and is the current eruptive zone of the Erebus hotspot. The summit contains a persistent convecting phonolitic lava lake, one of five long-lasting lava lakes on Earth. Characteristic eruptive activity consists of Strombolian eruptions from the lava lake or from one of several subsidiary vents, all within the volcano's inner crater.
The volcano is scientifically remarkable in that its relatively low-level and unusually persistent eruptive activity enables long-term volcanological study of a Strombolian eruptive system very close (hundreds of metres) to the active vents, a characteristic shared with only a few volcanoes on Earth, such as Stromboli in Italy. Scientific study of the volcano is also facilitated by their proximity to McMurdo Station (U.S.) and Scott Base (New Zealand), both sited on Ross Island approximately thirty-five kilometres away.
The name phonolite comes from the Ancient Greek meaning "sounding stone" because of the metallic sound it produces if an unfractured plate is hit; hence the English name clinkstone.
originally posted by: firerescue
a reply to: AgarthaSeed
Just one problem ...
Antarctica is separated by hundreds of miles of hostile storm wracked seas from other land masses
How does a primitive society
1) Construct ships of sufficient size and strength to cross the intervening ocean to Antarctica ?
2) How do they transport sufficient supplies to the colony or city to sustain it ?
Remember nothing grows in Antarctica .........
There is no wood to construct dwellings or to build fires for cooking and heat
originally posted by: CainHarmbank
a reply to: Chadwickus
I just briefly looked into the start of this thread...
I have read there are no commercial flights allowed to fly over Antarctica.
You'd think it might be the least miles from bottom of South America to Australia, yes?
Anyway the reason I read commercial planes can't fly over Antarctica is because of extreme winds.
As far as I know, the winds over the north pole aren't so extreme and flights can pass over the north pole pretty easy...
originally posted by: purplemer
a reply to: Chadwickus
So where’s the evidence of the no fly zone? Like, it needs to be known so, you know, no one flies over it. No such no fly zone exists, therefore, the story is bs.
You could try having a little look instead of stomping around threads with your cognitive dissonance.. You cant simply say a story is bs when you dont have any evidence to support it
I cannot speak to continent-wide no-fly zones, but there is specific, interesting no-fly zone at the South Pole station, where a number of scientific experiments rely on the cleanest air on the planet. This particular no-fly zone is meant to shield the “Clean Sector,” one of several protected areas, including the “Dark Sector” and the “"Quiet Sector.” In this Clean Sector, aircraft are forbidden to fly under 2000 meters within an arc of 150km radius.
www.quora.com...
originally posted by: rickymouse
Well, it would be weird if we were the first advanced beings to inhabit this planet in the millions of years that animals have been on it. The evidence would be long completely deteriorated or buried over thirty thousand years let alone a half million years. Any evidence we find we classify it as made by man within the last five thousand years, if it was a crystal or inert metals or alloys, it could have been found by the people two thousand years ago and wind up in their ancient structures and we would think they created it.
You could try having a little look instead of stomping around threads with your cognitive dissonance.. You cant simply say a story is bs when you dont have any evidence to support it
Oh FFS!!! the Piri Reis map DOES NOT SHOW ANTARCTICA!!!!!How many more people are going to be that lazy and just quote Hapgood's sketchy research and forced theories over and over and over again?!! Arrgghhhhh!
TO: Prof Charles H. Hapgood, Keene College
Dear Professor Hapgood,
Your request of evaluation of certain unusual features of the Piri Reis Antarctica map of 1513 by this organization has been reviewed.. The claim that the lower part of the map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctic, and the Palmer Peninsular, is reasonable. We find that this is the most logical and in all probability the correct interpretation of the map. The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of 1949.This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap. This part of Antarctica ice free. The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick. We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge in 1513.
Harold Z. Ohlmeyer Lt. Colonel, USAF Commander