(urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?

[David Stockhoff]

Then (a) what would be the "source" of the water (or rather of the 
energy that drives the water) and (b) since surely people still live in 
Tibet, was the Flood universal at all?

On 5/18/2011 6:49 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 6:44 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> We don't know (a) how much pressure Abaia or Erebus' bodies can
>> stand---we know zero about their physiology or technology (b) whether
>> the flooding comes from plate shifting or rising water---but where else
>> would all that water come from? (c) how high the waters got---did they
>> overwhelm the Tibetan plateau? (d) what the effect on nonhuman land life
>> is to be---presumably (from UotNS) everything but plants, some birds,
>> and simple or numerous marine life (and maybe some mountain goats) is
>> gone. The planet is still very alive but empty of advanced life.
>
> c) The selection of the Himalayas was just for illustration of the 
> variety of environments technically on land. I don't have any reason 
> to think that the oceans would slop up that high.
>
> b) I doubt that much plate-shifting is intended to have taken place or 
> there would have been some hint of major vulcanism that would result. 
> "New continents" might be a subtle play on the watery connotations of 
> incontinence rather than a literal prophecy. Rising water could be 
> driven by undermined and collapsing icecaps (which extend past Tierra 
> Del Fuego in Sev's time), though I think that would arrive as a series 
> of tsunamis rather than creeping floods or rivers topping the levies.
>
>


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