Six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea nearly dried up during what is called the "Messinian Salinity Crisis". This movie shows a physics-based computer simulation of the breach of Gibraltar and the flood of the basin.
A similar event 10,000 years ago, in the then populated Black Sea basin, may have been the source of the Noah's Arc narrative.
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If I had a time machine, this would be one of the events I would want to see
Your time machine may be washed away
@@galaxyhurricane1594 You look familiar
Right?! I would too. That would be an insane and frightening sight to see. All that destruction of land and everything (and everyONE) that was on the land just washed away. Makes you feel insignificant.
safer than Chixiculxllub.
Imagine watching the tsunamis ensue on the coast of Algeria or the Bosphorus strait
Always remember one of my Geology lecturers telling us that we’ve so little idea of what mega disasters like this or a comet impact can have on the Earth because no one’s ever seen one
They saw it and write it down in sumerian tablets
I was there when the water came back in. Caught me off guard. Lost a beach chair also.
LOL, no you weren't.
mk84ldb - did you find your towel?
@@youtubeviewer1120 r/woooosh
@Charles Calvin r/woooosh
Find your beer?
This is known to scientists as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, and actually happened several times. The first evidence that this had happened appeared when scientists mapping the sea floor discovered that the Nile riverbed continued all the way to the Rhone delta.
You mean "Messinian", right?
@@denelson83 Thank you for catching that.
All the way to France?
@@DzinkyDzink Yes.
WRONG! It was first evidenced in the Bible and it was caused by 40 days of rain. LOL, I am kidding you, I do not believe that. 😁 I just wanted to say it before an actual zealot said it.
The World Book Encyclopedia, in the 60's offered a bonus edition which contained a series of transparent overlays that illustrated the refilling of the Mediterranean Sea. I was fascinated. It made so much sense. This animation is a great augmentation of that.
I think my dad bought those, I remember flipping those pages back and forth.
I've witnessed this on a tiny scale in TEXAS. Creating Lake Livingston in the late 60's. We had a cabin on the river and over a year we watched the Lake fill up, higher and higher each weekend we spent there. I was only a kid but remember it vividly. Very heavy forests were covered with water.
Why so many dislikes? This is awesome, thank you for the videos
because people either think he's a bible nut or they think it's blasphemy idk
Me personally, I don’t watch videos to read.
Because the internet is one big circlejerk
The YT average is 0.1% of views or 1:1000 views. This one is below the average which is damned good with not just bad audio but NO audio!!
@@hubbletrubble7875 Exactly!
Imagine being some Neolithic family right in the path of that flood, somewhere in the Black Sea basin.. Waking up on a seemingly normal day. Seeing the disturbing images of the rising tide. Packing up and leaving, fleeing away from the sea to the safety of the local highlands, only to witness the sea surrounding you on every horizon and realising you are now on an ever shrinking island.
You wouldn't be. This happened before humans existed
@@alextaunton3099they said black sea basin, humans definitely existed then
Anyone else just sitting here watching this guys cool tsunami videos one after the other
Rachel Reynolds yes
yes. they can stuff the time frame. I dont enjoy people getting killed, but the power after a quake
Yep...I'm here for that too
Actually I didn't watch the video I just left a sarcastic comment>
Me
I like how the beginning shows all americans that there are different continents on the earth
Imagine this happening today. Just taking a trip to your favourite salt field down the italian mountain range and then going again next year - to find a freaking ocean!
this video made it happen too fast , the real process took about 100's of years ...
just another day in italy
It didnt take that long to fill the sea. But the draining took thousands of years
The Salton Sea.
@@ramadaniljaz1323 the filling of the sea actually took 2 years, according to the university of Malta
Excellent! Thank you. It's clearly seen how the Pontian Lake turned into the Black Sea, how emerged Crimean Peninsula and the Sea of Azov, on the shores of which I live today. It's also, clearly understood, how the Neolitic people could escape the disastrous flooding, having found a refuge in the Crimea. Those people became the ancestors of the legendary Tauri. It's clear, that many of those who dwelled to the east and west of the Crimea on the exposed lands, could have time to escape to the north, where now the Ukrainian steppe is. From that very region, the survivors later started their expansion to the north and west of Europe, while the core of that population remained in Ukrainian steppes and became the ancestors of modern Ukrainians. Great job!
That is an awesome amount of water and to see in person would have probably been terrifying. I honestly can't even picture seeing that much water flowing that quickly.
Would be about impossible to see in person. The vapors, smoke, and steam from that much movement would obscure everything.
If you look at the sea bed or the Black Sea, you can see evidence of this 10,000 years ago.
The simulation reminds me of an old helicopter computer game. Love it!
Excellent video! A great insight into a relatively modern geological superevent. I found this by accident while investigating the "Zanclean flood", but I was oblivious to the possibility of a very recent Black Sea breach. Very well done!
Seen nowhere else such theorie about Noah, gj i love you simu
The program is called clawpack
Anyone remember Vista Pro? This is like that with CFD elements included. This person must be a genius to code all that in Fortran.
keepin' it real *4.
You should do one on the formation of the Wisconsin Dells. I live near there and while exploring all the interesting sandstone cliffs, there was a plaque by the State stating that 10,000 years ago there was a gigantic lake over half of Wisconsin, when a catastrophic ice dam burst and tremendous rushing water carved the Wisconsin Dells from sandstone in a short period of time. However I have not been able to find any research or history of this event whatsoever beyond what I just stated.
That simulation was so life like I accidentally threw my phone against the wall
Easily the funniest post I have read for quite a while.
Would be interesting to see the hypothetical situation of a breach into the Caspian sea.
Caspian sea was probably affected by the Volga River and some other ones flowing from the antarctic oceans
@xbgamerx 20. Ah yes. Mother Russia borders the ANTARCTIC ocean.
what program do you use for these simulations? P.S. great video!
This is very very interesting thank you
About the time of the black sea flooding there was a large glacial blocked lake in Canada. It gave away, raising sea levels suddenly.
Lake Agassiz.
Missoula Flood
About that same time humans began dabbling in agriculture which some believe was spurred by the period referred to as the "Younger Dryas"(mini-ice-age). The influx of fresh water from Lake Agassiz disrupted the thermo-haline conveyor in the North Atlantic. These agrarian societies soon developed written language which supplemented oral tradition which may have echoed ancient catastrophes.
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great animation at 2013! and quiet, just like the old day :) love it man
Awesome! I wonder what a similar event would look like when rising sea levels breach the Caspian Sea...
Spencer O'Dowd but the caspian is already full.....? you mean the aral?
+Flying Creepers The Aral too, but the Caspian Sea is several meters below current sea level. And if global warming persists, rising seas will eventually breach it in a similar catastrophic flood.
Spencer O'Dowd it would be far less dramatic if its only 4 meters
The Caspian Sea currently sits at 28 meters below sea level. And the seas would have to rise by 26 meters to breach it. So a 54 meter breach could be rather dramatic.
It will happen even earlier in the Salton Sea basin which only will require about a 10 meter sea level rise. The Salton Sea is about 72 meters BSL creating at least an 80 meter breach. Don't know how high seas need to rise to breach the saddles separating the Dead Sea, the Afar and Qattara Depressions, or Lake Eyre from the oceans.
Sea cores prove that this has happened a total of 10 times not just once!
tim lazenby yes its a cyclical nature superphenomenon
@@Bf26fge Not that long ago a person stated to not keep history and pass it on is to invite the mistakes to be made again. Here in the States our education people are not any longer teaching history as diligently as once, and like to make politically correct "changes". Yes, we once again will be innocently be stumbling around making the same mistakes. I guess history has just got to repeat itself.
I think you need to take some "Sea Core" laxative! "Cuz yer fulla shit!!
@@Bf26fge and completely erased Carthage from the map. The Roman were todays' ISIS and Trump: absolute win at any cost to anyone else, and destroy all who don't agree with me. Even Hannibal, Phyruss, and some Greece General I forget released Roman captive soldiers as a gesture of "good will", but Romans, and ISIS, Trump, and my hex wife, don't come from that culture. They come from a zero sum game culture: I win, therefore you must lose. It's sad because while Generals like Hannibal actually survived their campaigns, the Romans destroyed all and left us searching. Even their froebearers, the Truscans, must have been scratching their heads.
@@Bf26fge The burning of Alexandria is a myth. The library did not get destroyed in one cataclysmic event. The event when fires from the shipyard spread to the library is true but it did not destroy the library and it’s unlikely more than a small part of the library’s collection was damaged by that event.
I want to see a breach like Gibraltar in real life so badly. It must have been such a force of shifting water... Poor guys living next to the black sea and fleeing, only to find out that they fled to a hill that was surrounded by water already.
Thanks for this information... up until reading this article, I had come to the conclusion that Gibraltar was the result of the ice age. The shifting plates sealing the straits makes more sense.
NICE, thx for sharing. I had no idea about the Gibraltar breach, i knew only about the Breach between Med.Sea and Black sea on Bosporus. Its said many villages was there already at this time but with the speed the water came most had time enough to relocate. If i could go back in time, this are some of the events i wanted to see with my own eyes, this water masses, unbelivable. ATLANTIS?
The end of the last Ice Age caused sea levels to rise across the entire planet. Early humans told tales about this event, which coincided with the rise of religious mythologies about flooding. But it wasn't a supernatural event. It was an natural one.
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Just for some perspective on the water movement, during WWII submarines found they could float into the Med silently by riding the cool Atlantic water flowing into the Med to replace the water which had evaporated from the surface.
Another factor - during the Ice Age, global sea levels were 400 feet lower than today as water was locked up in the ice. Just as today, a majority of people probably lived in these coastal lowlands, just as we do today. Now those villages are deep underwater all over the world. Much of the present North Sea was a fertile lowland with as many as one million people living in"Doggerlabd" (named after present day Digger Bank) - fishermen regularly pull up neolithic artifacts in their nets. Also, the Indian holy city of Dwarka has a counterpart 25 miles offshore, that may have had a population of 25,000. And off the US Carolina coast, fishermen have brought up similar artifacts more than 100 miles offshore.
Great book. " Noah's Flood" by William Ryan & Walter Pitman. Tells the story of the Black Sea flood through the bosphorus. Fascinating story and a very easy read. Religious people could likely even get through it without much difficulty.
The global commonality of flood myths in many cultures also has to do with general sea level rise due to melting glaciers, the gradual sea level rise may have also been the driver for the Polynesian peoples to sail from island to island as the lands they lived on gradually sank beneath the waves.
A BIBLICAL FLOOD rising up strands a man called Gullible on a small island. A sailor comes by and tells him to get aboard. "No thanks my god will save me" said Gullible. So the sailor leaves. Next a baby in a huge reed raft floats right by, but Gullible decides to wait for God to save him. Finally in frustration, a guru man in a white robe performs a miracle and walks across the water to him and says "climb on my back" "No thanks god will save me" said Gullible. Gullible finally drowns and meets god in heaven and complains that he didnt save him. God replies in anger "Listen gullible, I just sent you Simon with a boat, baby Moses in a huge reed raft, and Jesus for Christ sake, what more did you need"
Very original
I have read a very similar joke before
Heard another version. An elderly male rural American is warned on television a flood is coming. He says, God will save me. A nieghbor comes to his door and says come, get in the truck, come with us. He says, God will save me. As the waters rise, a firefighter comes by and says better leave. He says, God will save me. Finally, as he sits on the roof his house, a man in a boat comes by and say, get in. He says, God will save me. He drowns and meets God. He asks God, why didn't you save me? God says, I sent you a warning on television. I sent a helpful neighbor. I sent a firefighter. I sent a boat. You just didn't listen.
@Jay Walker My theory is, all humor is based on ontological fallacy. The reason why a joke which starts with "a priest, a Baptist minister and rabbi" is always funny is because you know, a priest, a Baptist minister and rabbi will never get into a rowboat together. If nothing else, they know what they've coming!
Kingsley Kronk K. Like the man who prays to God every week to let him win the Lottery and every week he doesn't win. When he dies and goes to heaven he says to God. "Why didn't you let me win the lottery? I prayed every week without fail, I was a good Christian all my life. Was it asking too much to let me win? God replied. "No, it wasn't asking too much, but you could have at least met me half way and bought a f****ing ticket!"
When the Med was dried up the bottom of the basin was as much as 4000 feet belong sea level. Air pressure was double that at sea level, and summer temperatures reached about 170 degrees F. A lifeless hellscape. Nothing like that exists on Earth today.
Wow the music is really good.
What roblox server was this filmed on
Flash flood simulator
Excellent illustrations, it would be interesting to know how global sea levels dropped in comparison. I know the Mediterranean is realatively small in comparison to other bodies of water, i can only imagine that shifting volume of water must of impacted the entire globe?
The pole shift and the melting glaciers that covered the Americas for example raised world wide sea levels. Nothing new under the sun. It's why we find prehistoric fossils of the cave man era in mud band gravel deposits. Think
If 35 quadrillion gallons (0.01% of ocean volume) raises the ocean level 1 inch, 6 quadrillion gallons (volume of Mediterranean sea) means less than a 1/6th of an inch or 4mm change in overall sea level. The Mediterranean sea wasnt totally empty, and all these are approximate to the point where some simple rounding of numbers equals entire country sizes of ocean.
The Med has 0.8% of the worlds water. The Zanclean Flood would have dropped the worlds ocean levels by somewhere between 5 and 10 metres, depending on how much water was still in the Med basin befotre the flood. The tectonic plates of Africa and Europe are closing. The Strait of Gibraltar will close, permanently. Then the Med will dry up again and the worlds oceans will rise again. But thats a few million years in the future.
And to think you did this all on a Vic-64! That is the real miracle.
nice work man add more posts
Is this the Minecraft version?
no
andyoli75 roblox
Looks like kodu
@rustytr stfu
negão gameplays its a joke yah dimwits
cool, now can you do one for the Persian Gulf
@Ingomar200. There is "arc" and there is "ark", both pronounced the same way. But for the one connected with Noah, the word to use is "ark".
Wow, an excelent graphic!
Maybe some guy put his family and livestock on a boat to keep them safe, only to be remember thousands of years later as a guy named Noah?
No, because this was because of a breach not 40 days of rain
Brian ... So what? A soap-dodging goat herder isn't likely to know shit about plate tectonics, glacial melt, warming climates, or catastrophic dam failures. All he's going to know is that water falls out of the sky and sometimes that causes a flood ... so when he's gonna to try and rationalise a historical cultural memory all he's capable of explaining it with is rain .... lots and lots of rain. Of course the whole 'Noah flood' story is just so much BS, and ultimately comes from older sources in a different region, your excuse that it "was because of a breach not 40 days of rain" has got fuck all to do with anything.
Noah happened around 6,000 years ago. The breach of the Mediterranean happened millions of years ago. Humans hadn't even fully evolved then.
Humans have only been around for ~200,000 years, and there was no mass flood that happen 6,000 years ago ...
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Given that the Bible borrowed the Noah and the Flood from Sumerian/Babylonian accounts, it's far more likely to have been the Persian Gulf flooding when sea level rose after the last glacial period.
Randal Osgood or even a local flood of the Iraqi floodplane
Ever read Gilgamesh? Even the teller of that tale has him going to Noah as the oldest person on earth in order to learn about immortality. A lot of the Bible, at least the Old Testament, was borrowed from much older sources. And since just about every surviving culture on earth has a flood myth, I expect the phenomena was more general. But it could have been floods from melting glaciers in the mountains running down the floodplains you mentioned as well.
Read about Lake Agassiz in Wikipedia. Larger in area than all the present Great Lakes combined, its breach in prehistoric times gave sealevel rises globally from 2.8 to 9.6 feet in a short period of time, flooding flat gradient areas such as the Persian Gulf Deltas with hundreds of square miles of water.
there's really not that much evidence that the bible borrowed anything directly from those other accounts. in fact, its far more likely that both accounts are variations on a common source that is much, much older. one thing we can safely say is that there is tremendous amounts of scientific evidence for mega floods occurring across the world around the end of the last glaciation period. given the timeframe for these events, oral accounts would've had to have been passed down for thousands of years before writing was even developed. still, i wouldnt be surprised if somewhere on the bottom of one of these seas, buried in silt, is an underwater cave system full of cave paintings that depict the original events that inspired both stories. now that would be an incredible find!
Sumerians borrowed the story from newly discovered Neanderthal pictographs showing the flooding of Doggerland when the Laurentide ice dam broke.
cool. can you do the Missoula and Lake Bonneville megafloods?
mind blowing to be alive to see those floods
How would a Black Sea flood explain deluge “myths” across the entire globe and on every inhabited continent?
There is no flooding events in american natives, nor nordic states, nor oceania nor africa subharan. Europe and Middle East share the same history for religious exchange. Mesopotamia also had a massive flooding that left underwater most of the fertile valley of Iraq, where the first civilization established. It is proven by archaeologists that it was thanks to a rupture of a glacier dam in northern Syria where the Tigris River got its water. Hindu civilizations also have a flooding myth, which is because all human civlization centers tends to settle at the borders of rivers and coasts. Several lost cities are underwater in India, water level changed or massive periodical floodings over thousands of years escale happened. Even in Egypt and Greece we have lost cities under water because they were lost to river changes and sea rising. Remember human civilization started after the last glacial period and the planet has become more warm since then with water levels rising. In the future this current interglacial period will end and sea level will go down while the eternal ices in the north and south poles will expand and make half europe and north america uninhabitable under hundreds of meters of glaciers.
It doesn't. Flood myths, not to mention the myths of world destroying fires we find all over the place, could have been regional events, or locally more extreme events.
@@Argentvs - There are Native American legends told by the first peoples of the Pacific Northwest, of the great floods that occurred during the last ice age when the ice sheet covered all of Canada and the northernmost section of the U.S. Look up the "Missoula Ice Age floods" for more info. Professor Nick Zentner dedicates several episodes of his geology videos to the Missoula floods and has an interview with "Randy" a native American. The Missoula Floods created the "scablands" and coulees found throughout Washington state.
Finally the real reason for the flood story
Can you do a similar presentation for when the sea of cortez floods back into california and returns it to its legendary Island format. the impereal valley is 20 feet bellow sea level and if water came flooding in , it would flood much of central california. UP side .
Awesome Thanks , With My regards Dr.Moved
Isn't it rather more likely that, like the story of Gilgamesh, the Biblical flood myth might have originated in the floodplains of the Tigris or Euphrates?
+ Drakkar Knarr Personally I think we have a basic location for Gilgamesh and the "garden" In Iraq by the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands. It use to be a much larger area, they also share the same Cuneiform as The Epic of Gilgamesh, aswell as thought to be one of the first Civilizations.
coconuthunterlemons We're in agreement because I wrote floodplains of the Tigris or Euphrates.
LOL i totally commented on the wrong thing :P Indeed man :)
My bad.
coconuthunterlemons No prob. I was a bit confused, though.
Also there were floodings around all coastlines in the World due to the melting of the ice when the ice age ended. This was a slower process, but surely recognizeable from year to year and contributed even more material for the sin flood story.
You mean the end of the last glacial period, called the Younger Dryas. We are still in an ice age because icesheets still exist at the poles. There is evidence for a catastrophic event at the end of the YD around 12,000 years ago that would have been extremely sudden and could have given rise to the disaster/flood stories we see all around the globe.
A lot of that water formed a giant lake in Canada which eventually breached into the Hudson Bay and rose ocean levels over night
Can you speed up the animations? I can still make out some detail.
Interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing.
Nice illustration; the Bosphorus breach has been estimated @ around 5750BCE, & it certainly have rise to the Noah myth, which in turn was nicked from the Epic of Gilgamesh
Paul Bennett the epic of gilgamesh is fallen man's version of the flood and other events.The Bible is the Creator of all things version of events.
@@thomasgagnon4492 what do you mean by fallen man
AD; Advancing Dates. BC; Backwards Chronology. Forget the PC nonsense.
The people who wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh may have been eyewitnesses to the Black Sea flood. The "mythological" embellishments were their way of explaining something they didn't understand, in days before science.
@@Bf26fge it was written before, but these stories were told orally before, so we can't be sure of what's the original.
I would pay a milion to see that sight of Gibralter opening up that little piece of strait made europe what it is today with the bautiful shapes of land and I can imagion the same happening in the Balltic sea I am Asatru but I supord sience all the way
gibraltar spain
I'm thinking the same thing. It would look like a gigantic waterfall making Niagara look puny.
I've been in the Gibraltar Strait and lower Mediterranean, there's really a lot of water in there now, would have been cool to see it dry
Great presentation. And a lot of hard work.
Pythagoras had an arc. Noah had an ark!
Obi-Wan died and the High Ground grew weaker, thus causing disaster.
Yes it also explains the Baltic Sea Anomoly So Obi Wan the Falcon did crash there before the water flowed back ! ! ! Hallelujah I knew there was an explanation for everything ! Amen 😃🔥❤️
Full of shit you are.
Did you use Amiga good old terrain software Vista Pro?
Great video. You should point out the meaning of Bosphorus... it means ox-ford, or cattle-crossing. So the name of this spot retains the ancient memory of animals crossing here - presumably before it was a major sea channel.
It's a cool idea, but tbh doubt it's true... Bosporus is a Greek word, and the Greek language only arrived in the region with the Indo-European migrations around ~3000 B.C, long after any Black Sea flood. Don't know too much about this, but according to Wikipedia, the cattle-crossing connection comes from the myth of Io, 'who was transformed into a cow, and was subsequently condemned to wander the Earth until she crossed the Bosporus, where she met the Titan Prometheus, who comforted her with the information that she would be restored to human form by Zeus and become the ancestress of the greatest of all heroes, Heracles.'
@@falink5826 Welllllll..... I actually don't care if it's not true. I want it to be true so much that I have decided it's true. Good info though - thanks. :)
The Mediterranean has dried up several times in the past, and it will eventually dry up for good and all. It is the very last fragment of a mighty ocean called the Tethys, and serves fair warning of the fate which faces both the Pacific and the Atlantic...
That’s tens of millions of years in the future.
Black Sea flood = origin of the mythical "great flood" Bible story.
The flood must have had an enormous impact. I often wonder about the accuracy of the millions of years that are thrown around.
This would have been an amazing sight to see.
Interesting. If they escaped to high ground only to be soon surrounded by water on a "sinking" island, it could also explain all the animals being forced to congregate there, as there would be nowhere else to go... Inspiring the narrative of animals being driven to Noah by God.
How could a 6 million year old event inspire a narrative that was written a few thousand years ago? How would anyone alive during Noah's time even know about this?
At about 2:55 the video notes that the Black Sea breach likely happened around 10,000 years ago.
Gotcha. I must have missed that.
That's ok Ed I slept through it too.
Gotta admit the soundtrack was kinda boring too ... I aint surprised some of us slept thru it :P
It's unlikely, at least in the case of the refilling of the Mediterranean, that it was a sudden breach event. More likely is that, due to gradual warming and a slow rise of sea levels back to where they had been before glaciation dropped them by hundreds of meters, and due to the normal effects of erosion, there was rather a much more gradual refilling that took, perhaps, 1,000 years to accomplish. What is being imagined in your scenario is a very narrow sill that suddenly gave way. In fact, this was a rather wide expanse of land that was likely to be able to withstand the sea for a considerable time even after the first waterway between the Atlantic and the basin was reestablished. There is in fact little geological evidence to suggest a catastrophic breach.
Lance Cummings That's incorrect. There is evidence of rapid erosion that occurred over the course of up to 2 years that is consistent with the catastrophic breach theory.
I stand on 'middle-ground' here, although the breach itself was most likely incremental, once underway and given the gradient from the higher Atlantic sea level down into the Alboran basin, it is likely that this cataract would have started to incise into the isthmus at a greater rate. Therefor the inundation of the Med itself would have happened relatively quickly. It is also likely that the similar breach at the Bosphorus, millions of years later, may well have happened extremely quickly in comparison. Bear in mind, that although the Pliocene is believed to be the period where climatic conditions were cooling (formations of the ice caps at both poles...), nevertheless, sea levels would have been higher than they were during the last glacial cycles during the Pleistocene, the final thawing of which, with resultant global eustasy, would have placed stress upon the Bosphorus Isthmus... As per my comment above.
Any thoughts on a 3,500 foot rise in sea levels or the reverse?
If you had paid attention to the last part you would have heard that that flood happened less then 10,000 years ago which by the way coincides with what the Sumerians writings on the tablets which was stolen and copied by the Egyptians and then the later on the Jews, go figure, lol............
Deebz270 Dam breaches are never linear in nature, all simulations and real life examples point to exponential failure mechanism.
The old Dan Dare comic has an event just like this in an early story (only the valley was the location of Atlantis, and the breach was caused by the bronze-age ingabitants entering and fiddling with the engines of an alien spaceship, causing a nuclear explosion). Arthur C Clarke was a scientific advisor for the comic at the time, I wonder if this idea was known about in 1950, or a "lucky guess"?
This just shows how far computer graphics have come in the last seven years.
You know this is just a simulation?
Maybe atlantis was in the black sea:p.
+Hilbert Steenbeek .....which actually isnt far from greece.... holy shit dude, write a thesis
Spot on. If the model is correct, there were large human settlements down there or networks of settlements. It's unlikely that no one survived. Well, these were the days of oral tradition. Word got around. It seems likely to me that by the time the story reached Plato, someone along the chain had switched out Bosporus for Gibraltar - perhaps by mistake or lack of knowledge, but I can think of more than one reason to deliberately lie about the location.
It is said that the Vanir of norse mythology comes from the area around the Black Sea and migrated north because of the flood.
Humans didn't exist millions of years ago...
near gibraltar it is
Everything was doing just fine up until the scientifically literate gave the religious and superstitious people personal computers.
@rustytr "Never argue with an idiot. They only bring you down to their level, then beat you with experience". Mark Twain I will not argue with you.
@@johnperic6860 my god... This is one of the greatest examples of the dunnin kruger effect. The video says at the begining that it is about noahs myth, and the later part of the video explains how a different flooding event 10.000 years ago may have acted as inspiration. Two things: 1. Read what the video says 2.watch the whole thing
I wonder if there iss any corelation between the black sea flooding and the great lake behind the north American ice sheet that broke about 10,000 years ago and released a unimaginable volume of fresh water into the Atlantic that raised the sea level by several meters almost over night. The water flowed down the St. Laurent seaway. If this raising of the Atlantic, then had a chance to flow into the Mediterranian raising its sea level and causing the overflow to spill over into the Black Sea.
How do we know the basin flooded so suddenly? Isn't it possible it took years for the breach at Gibraltar to develop?
"Eventually the Strait Breached"?? Don't you mean the 2 mile high Glacier that capped the top 1/4 of the planet, melted, refilling the oceans and the seas.
No
@@johnperic6860 Are you serious or drunk?? Maybe hitting the pipe?? 6 million years ago we were roughly 28 million years into a major glacier and the rest of the world wasn't much warmer. By the way, the Oceans were lower too. Also, the Bottom 1/4 of the planet was also under a 2 mile high Glacier Cap.
@@kovacsandras Yes.
@@johnperic6860 Nope, Seriously, it wasn't.
@@johnperic6860 Well we are currently near the end of the 33 million year old "Cenozoic Ice Age". You are talking about one Glacier Ice Sheet of a time when many glaciers capped the Earth. The Laurentide Ice Sheet over Canada and some of the Western States was happening about the same time as the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Looks like the super flood that did drown Atlantida and the people of Noa.
You realise this was almost 5 and a half million years ago, right?
There were no people 5.3 million years ago. Just some early homonids
Daniel Forrester you stopped watching the video esrly right?
that picture is beautiful of fhe tiger and the people on the rock
When it first dried up it must have smelled awful!🗿
Note: this breaches and the biblical diluvium are different things. Not confuses and don't have relations with other. The breach is a geological event and the diluvium has a myst and hybrid event with meteorology,aeronomy,geography and geomorphical cataclysmic things. The diluvium has a miraclous unique event and the breaches are geological periodical things and its have cycles and times to happen. Thank you for the video post and great simulation
The Black Sea breach may have been the basis for the legend of Deukalion's flood. We know the Sea Peoples (Philistines) colonized Canaan, and would have brought the story with them. The fact that Noah's Ark ended up in Turkey is suspicious of this origin. However, most of the flood myth came from Sumeria/Babylon.
Demobius hmm... Interesting
Very hard to believe. I'll do my own research.
How... is it hard to believe? This is backed by research itself and many people believe in it due to movement of the continents. This guy just made an animation on an already existing concept.
Its actually good that you want to research something and not take it as plain value instead of the alternative of rejecting it entirely
Red Blood Yes, I agree. I don't know what he finds fishy about it but it's good to do your own research.
Excellent Vince, smartest thing I've read all day. So, after 6 months did you actually do scientific research or bury yourself in the Bible because reality was too much for you? Enthusiastically waiting for your reply!
I think these floads might have been whith really heavy storms or hurricane or something. The begging of the sea level rising must have been really impressing.
Its really good and informative .
All the triggered Christians in here.
I went too far, and I can't go back.
And of course all the triggered atheists too.
@Dave Von Saunder And explain how sane it is for someone to claim that no higher being than man exists, when you can’t even explain man’s existence, or the existence of the universe, for that matter. The “millions of years ago” arguments are all based on speculation. It’s assumed that certain things took millions of years, but there is no real proof.
Ethan Lamoureux Same thing for the Bible, it has no proof that God exists. And it's not even sane for someone to say an all-powerful being controls this very universe. You can't even explain God's existence, you even said yourself that if God was created, his creator had to be created, and so forth, and you said that it's best to just stop where someone says God exists. It doesn't even make sense by itself, so I don't know why you say that it doesn't make sense for someone to just randomly say the universe exists without evidence if you believe in God.
Name one thing which exists by itself, other than God.
Which explains why the bible is just myths and legends of people of less knowledgeable times
Lindsay Rae ye stupid people didnt have even ihone
Lindsay Rae by that logic, fake trees explain that trees are just a myth
Revi M Fadli That doesn't make any sense. If there were glacial floods, people would naturally tell stories about it, eventually changing into myths and morality tales. It would be like a game of telephone over generations, slowly changing over the years. A fake tree analogy just doesn't apply and makes no sense.
Jack Haveman "a fake tree doesn't apply and doesn't make sense" That's because you don't get it. Just because there exists fake ones doesn't mean all instances are fake. Just because alternative explanations exists doesn't mean it *has* to be the right one. Especially if said explanation's likelihood is circularly bboosted by what it would prove if it's true
Revi M Fadli You're still saying nothing. What fake stuff are you talking about and why do you think it's fake?
How many months and years did it take to fill the Black Sea basin with water from the south where the Mediterranean Sea is?. It already had major rivers filling it up slowly - the Danube, Dnieper, Southern Buh, and Dniester. As the African plate advances northward Europe and Asia minor are rising. Now the Black sea drains south into the Mediterranean.
No one takes into account the last ice age and its affects. Water levels dropped globally when ocean and lake water was exchanged for frozen ice on land. When those mile high glaciers melted, massive flooding occurred, only this time, when civilization was blooming into Europe, Middle East, Asia and the Americas. So it makes sense that stories of "great floods" were recorded globally because glacier dam breeches were happening all over the world as it warmed. The Hudson River valley was carved from just one of these ice dam breeches. These were truly massive flood events.
Good video, but, this was not "Noah's Flood". Noah lived a few thousand years ago. The breach was 5 million years ago.
+mikespulligan The story of Noah is supposed to have happened around the Black Sea, not the Mediterranean. The flood of the Black Sea happened during the last 10.000 years.
Whereas the breaching of the Gibraltar Isthmus happened around 5.3 million years ago during the Zanclean period of the Pliocene epoch. One theory regarding the breaching of the Bosphorus Isthmus, resulting in the increased flooding of the Black Sea, is that during the various MWP's (Melt-Water-Pulses) that took place during deglaciation in the early part of the current inter-glacial, which coincided with the start of our current epoch - The Holocene. The meltdown, or deglaciation of the last glacial period, commonly known as 'The Ice Age', would have progressively raised sea levels (eustasy) throughout the worlds oceans, including the Mediterranean. This along with tectonic movement may well have perturbed the somewhat weak Bosphorus Isthmus, creating a cataract, very similar to that of the Gibraltar breach 5.3 million years previous, resulting in further inundation of the Black Sea basin. Allied to this theory is the release of vast amounts of fresh water, or 'outpouring' from proglacial lakes, the most famous of which was Lakes' Objibway and Agassiz. A series of floods, as ice-dam configurations failed, created a series of great floods from Lake Agassiz, resulting in massive pulses of freshwater added to the world's oceans. Though understood as only resulting in around a meter increase in global water level, this too could have resulted in increasing stress on the already stressed Bosphorus Isthmus. The time frame of around 7-8000 years bce, loosely fits this model. It is believed that the 'final' inundation of the Black Sea happened extremely quickly. Given the time frame and the fact that we are still unearthing/deciphering ancient texts, most notably from the Sumerian, Hittite and Babylonian cultures indicates, if not partially corroborates the biblical narrative of 'Noah's Flood'... It is understood that most of the great land-locked basins, that now hold inland seas, like the Great Lakes of North America were formed by deglaciation meltwaters. The Caspian Sea is a land-locked depression, a remnant of the Parathethys sea, which grew to its current size along with the Aral Sea (now a fraction of its size, due to modern irrigation endeavours), from meltwaters of the last deglaciation. FYI: I am an atheist and amateur ocean/earth science academic. I have studied ocean science at HE level. I am also a mariner and extremely interested in environmental issues and climatology, archaeology, geology and a philosopher. I also believe that behind every myth, legend and folk-lore there is an 'armature of truth'. I do not necessarily believe in the current taught paradigm that 'civilizations' have only transpired over the past 7000 years. (Sumerian culture, allegedly the first 'known' civilized culture, being around 5500bce). In fact the more I research, the more I become convinced that not only 'civilized' cultures most likely existed long before that time frame, but that those cultures may well have enjoyed a highly developed/technical level of sophistication. It is also now believed that the megalithic structure know as 'The Sphinx', adjacent to the Great Pyramids may well be as old as 12,000 years... Similar archaeological sites around the world are being extensively researched and are proving to be older than previously thought. It still amazes me, that some people still cling on to the belief that the world was made 6000 ya. Modern humans, maybe.... Time to drop the 'modern' and literal interpretation of those series of books that comprise the Quran and Bible.... Let's get with the program folks!!!
We dont know what really happen in very ancient past. We cant know that. Why? Because we did not had our modern sensors and other hardware to take a direct, empirical measurement. We have only models, theories, ideas, clues. But model or theory or idea or clue =/= empirical fact. What is interesting is that all ancient cultures. Inca or Maya or Egypt or India mention something about great flood.
Exept he was supposed to of landed on mount Ararat which is to far away
This is about science. Those who want to banter about ancient evidence-free fictions written by people who thought the sky was the limit of the universe can certainly find the right place to do that....... which is not here.
10,000 years ago would have been near the end of the ice age and sea levels would have been at least dizens if not a hundred meters lower than today. And there were periods when sea levels would have risen many meters in a few days like when lake Agassiz broke through to the sea draining most of north America as the glaciers receeded. Was that taken it account for the simulation?
Didn't something similar happen to the Red Sea? Either way, that really stunk for the people living on the formerly-dry part of the Black Sea. I wonder if the people living along the old coastline were actually better off, because at least they may have had boats.
There is also evidence that humans inhabited Doggerland in what is now the North Sea which also flooded at the end of the Ice Age which could have given rise to the flood stories including the story of Atlantis
would be beautiful to see, incomprehensibly large waterfall style look
The falls would have been deafening loud! Probably shook the ground nearby as well.
What program/discipline do you need to recreate that computer aesthetic?
Interesting hypothesis. By the way, really could the Bosporus be closed 10,000 years ago? isn't that too a big change in a "short" geological time?
3:27 that would be one hell of an apocalypse movie