Liquid Hills in Italy - [wow video]

[accadacca]

[uintahiker]

Crazy! It brings to mind the place in the bible that says that the mountains shall be brought low and made smooth.

[Randi]

Crazy! It brings to mind the place in the bible that says that the mountains shall be brought low and made smooth.

and this one too! Ezekiel 38:20

So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

It must be an amazing (& scary) sight to actually see (and hear) something like that in person!

[ststephen]

What it gets me to think about is how we usually consider geological changes to be slow small changes happening over very long periods of time. But many times it's more nothing happening over long periods of time and then cataclysmic events happening very quickly. The sand and mud that formed the deserts and deltas from which the sandstone we all enjoy formed may have once eroded from mountains in scenes like this.

Speaking of seeing/hearing such a thing: the winter of 81/82 brought unusually large rainfalls to the Santa Cruz mountains. One particularly strong storm on the heels of many weeks of drenching rain caused mud slides all over the mountains. I lived in a house off a private road. Our road had a culvert over a seasonally dry creek bed. That night the hill above that creek bed slid and left high water (mud) marks 8 ft high on the adjacent redwood trees. I heard that slide coming down, ripping out trees as it descended, and it was a terrifying sound. Our house was OK, but one person who happened to be standing near the road at the time was killed.

[Scott Card]

Thistle slide here in Utah comes to mind.

[Sombeech]

lol, dude at 12 seconds in, doesn't give a crap

[R]

Are we just putting videos here now?

[accadacca]

Are we just putting videos here now?

If they are newsworthy.

[Pelon1]

and this one too! Ezekiel 38:20

So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

It must be an amazing (& scary) sight to actually see (and hear) something like that in person!

Crazy! It brings to mind the place in the bible that says that the mountains shall be brought low and made smooth.

If they are newsworthy.

This thread should prolly be moved to the Religion/Bible Thumping Forum!!

[Don]

This thread should prolly be moved to the Religion/Bible Thumping Forum!!

The end of times is news worthy, right?

[Randi]

The end of times is news worthy, right?

Of course it's news worthy! The end of the world has been news worthy every time it was about to end, like even as far back as the Black Plague. And all the present day ending and future endings are newsworthy too! Well, if not quite newsworthy, at least thought worthy!

Haven't you ever thought about how the world will end?

http://www.sciencentral.com/video/20...rld-scenarios/

[Don]

Haven't you ever thought about how the world will end?

No. We'll all be gone long before the world ends. Plus I find the end of the universe to be a more interesting subject; big crunch or big freeze?



(I like the big crunch hypothesis 'cause when the universe contracts in on itself there's a chance that the instant of final crunchiness will result in a big bang and the universe will all expand out again. Until it again contracts into itself and on and on it goes expanding and contracting forever as if it were the very breath going in and out of god's lungs.)