or the channel tunnel...whatever. Where did they put all the Earth from under the channel?
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That's a very good question.\n\nIn the end, almost 4 million cubic metres of chalk were excavated on the British side, much of which was dumped below Shakespeare Cliff near Folkestone to reclaim 90 acres (360,000 m²) of land from the sea.
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this feat was done in the marianas trench at 6033.5 fathoms deep. see this website!! it has a lot more info than i can provide you with :)\n\nwww.marianatrench.com
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How about a bowl of water beneath it? Is that within the rules? Alternatively one of the other posters is planning to drill a hole through the centre of the planet, you could always use their hole, it wouldn't break then!
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Believe it or not most of the "earth" was reused in the actual construction going to build on/off ramps, fill in and compacted in areas that were to wet for the most part.(special note most of the expressway is 6 feet below the level of Lake Michigan)
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That's a lot of questions...\n\nThe land wouldn't be completely covered but the sea level would rise about 200ft so just about all coastal areas would be completely flooded. Obviously everything above that altitude would still be ok but the population would be squeezed into a much smaller area.\n\nMillions of years ago the climate was much warmer and warm ocean currents circled Antarctica which meant that it was totally ice-free and inhabited by rich plant and animal life. At this time the sea level was generally much higher than it is today. At other times, during Ice Ages, much more water was locked up as ice at the Poles and the sea level was much lower than at present.\n\nNo-one knows what is under every part of the Antarctic ice but people have drilled down to the rock in a number of places. Any remains of lost civilisations or other such surface features are likely to have been crushed and ground to dust by the weight of millions of tons of ice. It is known that there are large coal deposits left over from the compacted remains of the plants that once thrived there and there are other mineral deposits as well. At least one prehistoric lake has also been found - frozen solid, of course beneath hundreds of feet of ice and snow.\n\nThe magnetic poles are gradually shifting all the time and many maps such as UK Ordnance Survey maps indicate the rate of variation... on the most recent map I have it states that Magnetic North is moving by 09' East each year. Historically a number of "polar reversals" have been recorded where basically the magnetic north and south poles swap places (282 times in the last 10 million years).  This seems to happen quite suddenly and probably when the gradual shift reaches a critical balance point.\n\nThe main evidence comes from rocks produced from mid-ocean ridges which erupt as liquid magma and rapidly solidify retaining the magnetic field that they were subjected to as they hardened. From this it is possible to see that the North and South Poles have "flipped" and quite regular intervals for millions of years - and in fact in geological terms we seem about due for another such an event.\n\nIt appears that when the poles swap in this way there are often several rapid exchanges before the new arrangement is reached so that the North Pole may go N-S-N-S-N-S in a short space of time before sticking at the new reversed state. This would probably cause all sorts of temporary problems such as disruption to navigation and possibly interference with radio signals and so forth. As some of the rocks of the Earth contain a certain amount of iron which is susceptible to magnetic influences there may also be earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
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There is a woman scientist now exploring an indentation of rock (forget where) who claims there is evidence that just about everything, including and especially human beings, are from outer space.  She has been denied funding repeatedly, she says, because of bias and religious protection.  I wish I could recall the name of the show...it was on The Discovery Channel about a month ago.  Pretty interesting premise for those of us that do not subscribe to the available written texts concerning how life came to be on this planet.  Honestly tho, I don't think we will know any time soon.  In the case that the major religions are wrong, everything we know would be upturned and there would most likely be chaos among all people.  Maybe it's better if we're left to wonder.
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Its obviously D).  All that gas is holding us down.   (just kidding, its caused by the fact that Earth is massive enough to cause a significant gravity well in space-time)
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that remains to be seen but glaziers have always been moving .so a deep groove is more likely \n\nit is the ice in the south Pole which should hold the most interesting secrets ,as it is a big land mass that used to be in the tropics \nmany of us believe that Atlantis could be beneath Antarctica
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When I was a teen I discovered that underground tunnels existed in my hometown. I was told about them by a nurse who got lost in her hospital sub-basement. She ended up in the tunnels, and she said there were miles of them. She supposed that they were there in case of war, so people could have a place to go. Perhaps 300 years ago people used them to hide from Indians?
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Into the abyss of course........:)\n\n*runs to the blog to go copy her answer from there*\n\nLovely picture by the way, but it has scared me from ever boarding the Mayflower. Thank goodness I'll never have to. I would have looked horrendous in the pilgrim shoes anyway. But enough rambling......let me get to the question.\n\nThe ships would all fall into the abyss. What if....the fall was neverending? What if they just kept falling with no where to land? would the water keep running too? would it lead to another land? Is this where "neverland" is? Or do we fall and fall into a nothingness? Or will we fall and land on the River Styx? \n\nWe know the ocean water has to return other wise the earth would be drained and before long draught would be the next issue after global warming. So my thoughts are crazy but that the water falls and falls and falls until it hits a warp that sucks it back up and into the earth yet again similar to the way a fountain works. A never ending cycle. But if so........what could possibly be at the bottom of the abyss??? One shall never know. *sigh*
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Very interesting question that I wish I had an answer for. I was always wondering the opposite sort of speak. How did the Anglo  survive in those caves up in the mountains in the earlier days? I mean they show all of this history on TV with the African man and the early stages of the white man. I'm just glad they discovered how to start a fire so that they could stay warm and could cook their food. I mean could you imagine eating raw meat 24-7?
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Certainly. I don't think you have looked carefully for it yet.\nThe top and bottom of Earth are where the little rods poke \nout on almost every globe I have ever seen.
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i dont think we'll know til we get up there for real. BUT the history channel has been very accurate on all accounts since i've seen it... so... if it says it is then, i guess so. but we'll see. the whole idea of it being there is pretty cool though.
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uhhhh... maybe c. manipulate earth\ndunno why
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The one in Bosnia has been debunked, I believe.\nAnd there have been many "floods" not just one.  The earth has not been completely flooded over since it formed.  There's just not enough water. Even if all the ice caps melted completely there wouldn't be enough water.\nHowever, I do know who built the pyramids. It was a tribe of dwarves who were able to levitate objects through sound.
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ok first of all just because one thing the bible says is true,that wouldnt make the entire thing true and second of all,originally the Earth was a ball of molten rock that cooled down.water didnt come around till later(im not sure how though)
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10,916 meters (35,814 feet), to Challenger Deep in the Marianas trench, which is the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans.  The Marianas trench is in the western north Pacific Ocean.  \n\nSee sources.