OTI: notes:5/19/18

Open To Interpretation

Notes: seventeenth in a series--see previous...game on...Trout on third, Pujols first...and a lazy fly ball by Simmons...hmmph...Ohtani is on his rest day...will pitch tomorrow...have ticket for game!...on radio now...a confluent thought: the Dead Sea is drying up like a lake in Andes...that one has dried up...and it's thought by the Mysterions to be the home of lost Atlantis...there are ruins under Lake Titicaca...and I think of the pygmy Mammoths here on the Channel Islands...the confluence: civilizations submerging/lakes drying up...DP and Angels out of the inning...to bottom of 5th...Rays 4-0...missed beginning of game grocery shopping...hmmph...more gloom...brb...Marti tries to stretch a single...out at second...'bad base running'...I'd say...down four you need base runners...fundamentals in the wind...two out...top of 6th...a hit...third for Rays...two hits and they made four runs!...what happened?...don't wanna know!...oh...Rays had bases loaded...two walks...an error...and a grand slam!...oh...here I found it...took a bit...Jim Allen's take of Atlantis in the Andes...it may be far fetched...but a well thought out far fetched!...and it introduced me to Lake Poopo...brb...

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So the canal which Plato said took ships from the sea to the city was not a canal from the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean, but a canal from the nearby lake which is so huge that it is in fact an inland sea called Lake Poopo, which in turn is connected to another vast inland sea called Lake Titicaca to the north.  In fact the entire plain has been periodically submerged beneath the sea ie it became a giant inland sea at various dates going back thousands of years succeeded by dry periods. And the Earthquakes and Floods which Plato described are absolutely typical of the region.    
http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisboliviapart1.htm

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DP saves Angels from another Rays bases loaded...maybe...a review...runner at first safe...run scores...Rays 5-0...while natural disasters may or may not have disappeared past civilizations, they certainly have disappeared, and altered, fauna and flora...this of course over millions of years...but still...well, over millions of years we were altered too by such, I guess...brb...

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"There's been a very big debate circling for decades now about how pristine or man-made the Amazonian forests are," Watling said. The new study suggests that humans have been altering these forests for about 4,000 years.

https://www.livescience.com/57775-humans-altered-amazon-rainforests-geoglyphs.html

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Angels out in the bottom of 7th on nine pitches...there are still tribes of Indians in the Amazon that haven't had contact...and thought is, way back when, Amazonians planted trees, did agriculture, throughout the Basin...whole area cultivated...they left behind 'geoglyphs'...brb...

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Archaeological evidence shows that the Pacific Northwest was one of the first populated areas in North America.
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Anthropologists estimate there were 125 distinct Northwest tribes and 50 languages and dialects in existence before the arrival of Euro-Americans in this region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Washington_(state)#Prehistory_and_cultures

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The cumulative ecological impacts of Native American fire use over time has resulted in a mosaic of grasslands and forests across North America that was once widely perceived as untouched, pristine wilderness.^[3][4][5] It is now recognized that the original American landscape was already humanized at the time that the first European explorers, trappers, and settlers arrived; but the extent to which Native Americans manipulated entire ecosystems using fire remains a contentious topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire

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Kinsler with a lead off double...bottom 8th, I think...hmmph...more on Indian agriculture for sometime!...Lake Poopo is a curio...and when I happened on it, I went web touring on youtube, and watched some youtubes...this area in the Andes is very strange...and very stressed for the locals as Lake Poopo, once nearly as large as Lake Titicaca, has dried up...there's a huge salt plane thereabout...sac ground out, Kinsler scores from third, after stealing third...Young pinch hits for Calhoun...a low point for Calhoun!...still hitless...Young gets to first on a dribbler...

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Lake Poopó—once Bolivia’s second-largest lake and an important fishing resource for local communities—has essentially dried up. News reports blame recurrent drought and the diversion of the lake’s water sources for mining and agriculture.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=87363

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site has really good before and after pics...

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The top image, acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows the lake in April 2013 when it still held water. OLI acquired the second image in January 2016, by which time the lake had dried up. Turn on the image comparison tool to see the change.

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well, I find it is only like nine feet deep...with water...so...anyway, it is where there is an old volcanic cone, ruins--Atlantis!...

quote Allen's site above

It was not the continent of Atlantis which sank into the sea, but the island capital of the same name, built around a volcanic island which sank into the inland sea of Lake Poopo which exists on the edge of the rectangular plain presently called the Bolivian Altiplano. 

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DP, and on to top of 9th...bottom of 9th...Cozart a lead off single...Trout up...outahere!...Homer...Rays 5-3...Pujols K...two out...Simmons up...4-3...sigh...

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DavidDavid