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Remember, in the next ten years, our confusion will reach new heights of sophistication. (Or, as Mark Twain put it, "Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations we shall soon know nothing at all about it.")
— Apr 06, 2017 09:20PM
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The idea that California is in large part a collection and compaction of oceanic islands was a reverberation of an ancient myth as well as a development in a science. For at least two thousand years, people described certain undiscovered islands with a force of imagination that became belief.... The Fortunate Isles, for example, and the Seven Cities of Cibola, and the Lost Atlantis.
— Apr 05, 2017 08:40PM
Jim
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The idea that California is in large part a collection and compaction of oceanic islands was a reverberation of an ancient myth as well as a development in a science. For at least two thousand years, people described certain undiscovered islands with a force of imagination that became belief.... The Fortunate Isles, for example, and the Seven Cities of Cibola, and the Lost Atlantis.
— Apr 05, 2017 08:40PM
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In 1838, the Scottish philosopher Thomas Dick ... first proposed the movements on the earth's surface that eventually became known as continental drift and plate tectonics.
— Apr 04, 2017 09:04PM
