People in the ancient word didn't have the same words we have today. they didn't know what lava was except that it was different than ash. In fact, it contains sulphur and it solidifies objects and people as it did in Pompeii.
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Yeah, maybe if you were arguing about the "Bats aren't birds part" You could use the fact that ancient people were uneducated as a defense, but otherwise, no.
It's almost impossible to comment on this. I mean, do I just say that Carico is stupid and leave it at that? We already knows she's stupid, probably insane, so there would seem little point. Just as there's little point to most of what she says.
Oh, this is about the pillar of salt shit.
Look Carico, in the region there are pillars of salt that are naturally formedimage
Myths are about explaining the world around us, so saying that they were people who disobeyed God is fairly natural.
Here's a link to RicharDawkins.net that I can't get into (I'm having account issues)http://richarddawkins.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45645&p=940882
Not that Carico cares, she's the most brain dead person I've ever met, and I've been in a morgue.
God you just don't give up do you? You know nothing about anything and have a superiority complex to boot.
No, people in the ancient world didn't have the same words as we did (computer, internet, iPod, LP, CD. . .) but that doesn't tell us a damned thing about whether or not they knew what lava is. I expect they knew where it came from, they knew when it cooled it was a rock, and those in metalworking societies knew you could melt stuff that was like rock, so they probably knew lava was molten rock.
ASH is what BURIED the people at Pompeii and made MOLDS of them. It wasn't lava and they weren't solidified.
People in the ancient word didn't have the same words we have today.
I'm sure you know this from your deep scholarly knowledge of ancient civilizations and their culture and languages. Oh wait, that's right.... you don't. Now would you kindly shut up until you can be bothered to get at least a grade school education.
they didn't know what lava was except that it was different than ash.
It's not much of a stretch to work out that lava is very hot semi-liquid rock, I mean fuck, even you could figure that out on your own.
How is it that you expect people to believe that these ancient cultures were so completely ignorant but then turn around and expect us to believe that a guy named Noah from an even more ancient culture was capable of building this wooden boat that was so advanced for it's time that it can't be duplicated today in such a way that would make it seaworthy?
In fact, it contains sulphur and it solidifies objects and people as it did in Pompeii
When lava touches something it tends to burn or melt, not to solidify. Pompei was hit by pyroclastic flow, which is superheated volcanic gasses and ash, not lava.
Why is it that you insist on making a fool of yourself every single time you open your mouth?
Ash buried the people of Pompeii and formed casts around their bodies, so even after the bodies disintegrated we were able to make molds out of the space they left behind. Trust me, last semester I did a research paper on Pompeii. 5 secondary sources and 1 primary. I got 80%. :-)
Lava doesn't solidify people. That's the problem with so many of you religious dipsh*ts. You see something and, instead of looking up the facts, you jump to some conclusion you've pulled from you butts.
Vesuvius is a Stromboli-type volcano that forms near subduction zones, and ash is its main product, as opposed to a Hawaiian volcano that forms near hot spots and is noted for lava flows. Pompeii was a pyroclastic ash flow. Hot gasses around ash particles allow the ash cloud the descend the mountain quickly, so no one had time to escape. Peleé, on Martinique, was another example. You fail geology.
As fundies are fond of using the 'Were you there?' argument, well, I've been to Pompeii and can assure you it was buried in ash, not lava.
As a latin speaker I can attest that the Romans at least did have words for both lava and ash. Lava was called 'lava' - coming from one of two verbs, either 'lavat' (it cleans up) or 'labet' (it falls). For ash, they had 'cinis' as in cinders.
So yes they did have the words and, also in contrast to the assertions of our retarded friend Carico, one of them was identical to ours and the other one was pretty damn close.
DEFICIS EPICE - EPIC FAIL (well, close enough)
Carico, you are an utter idiot. The Pompeiian figures are not solidified by lava. Lava never reached Pompeii. It was overwhelmed by pyroclastic flows, otherwise know as nuées ardents. (Don't even try to pronounce the French term. You'd make a horse's arse out of it, I know!)
The figures to which you refer are made when excavators detect a hollow in the solidified deposits from the pyroclasms. The archaeologists then drill small holes and pour in plaster of paris. When this has set, the image is formed as in a mould. Simple, no? So go and apologise to all those you have deliberately misled through willful ignorance used to serve your purpose.
mihi placet nimis legere te Latine loqui potere. Ego autem amo pleno cum corde illam linguam.
"If you do this train job for me, then you and I be solid, but if you fail...Not so solid..."
Sorry, I thought a Firefly quote here would be appropriate, I think I may have been wrong. But in any case:
People before lava=Not solid
People after lava=Solid :D
"People in the ancient word didn't have the same words we have today."
No shit, Sherlock. The oldest variant of English that's mutually intelligible with modern English is ~700 years old.
"they didn't know what lava was except that it was different than ash."
Different *from* ash, and yes I think people in the ancient world who lived in volcanic areas probably did have a good idea what lava was.
"In fact, it contains sulphur and it solidifies objects and people as it did in Pompeii."
You fail volcanology forever.
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