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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: The Sunken Lands, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the world of lost islands and forgotten continents, in both actual geologic history and the mists of the human imagination. (Part 1 of 4, originally published 11/28/2023)

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Job. And I go by the name, Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circles. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday

0:24.7

for Civic Cypher on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:34.1

Hello and welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Joe McCormick. Today is Saturday, so we're reaching into the vault for an older episode of the show. This one originally published November 28th, 2023, and it's part one of our series called The Sunkan Lands. Enjoy.

1:00.1

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

1:10.1

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

1:22.2

And I am Joe McCormick. And in today's episode, we're going to be kicking off a series that we're calling the sunken lands that is about the idea of lands submerged underwater.

1:39.5

Now, not too long ago, we did a series of episodes on the tendency people have to quite readily interpret any weird-looking, low-resolution photograph as evidence of our highly speculative theory of choice, whatever you like.

1:44.0

So here's a picture of a shape that maybe doesn't look organic in origin.

1:50.0

So it is evidence of an alien spacecraft that crash landed on our planet 5,000 years ago.

2:03.8

But then as we discussed in that series, often if you're able to get a higher resolution image of the same object or just get more contextual information, oh, wait, it's actually a rock. But one very popular genre of imagery for this exercise is underwater photography. It happens with images of things

2:11.6

in the sky as well or things just obscured in various contexts. But underwater photography is especially juicy here.

2:21.4

I think because the conditions of underwater photography naturally lend themselves to the kind of

2:28.3

tantalizing state of low information that sets our imagination running wild and lets you fill in the gaps with

2:37.4

whatever you were excited about. And when the weird looking thing is underwater, the highly

2:43.4

speculative theory people use to explain it might still be aliens, as we discussed in the

2:48.4

example of, you know, one underwater object, probably a glacial,

2:53.2

erratic boulder that people did in some cases interpret as a crashed alien spacecraft.

2:58.5

But another common explanation for weird-looking things underwater is the sunken civilization.

3:05.0

Most often Atlantis, but there are other candidates as well.

3:09.3

And the idea of a lost civilization vanished under the sea is so captivating to people.

3:16.4

It is hard to resist the urge to see an underwater rock with sharp corners and say,

3:22.2

that's not a rock. That's a building. This is one of their

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