Confused

1:12 looks like the raccoon was doing just fine climbing up to dry land on it's own.

"I covered this entire planet once."

I didn't know that and doubted it, so I googled. Link says that before around 1 billion years ago, water (ocean) covered 95% of the surface of the earth, and then continents erupted relatively quickly, geologically speaking.

However, I think that 95% coverage figure (and possibly more earlier on?) would mostly be owed to the crust and mantle being relatively flat and smooth after cooling down from being a largely molten ball very early on. Now that the earth has cooled enough to allow plate tectonics to push stuff around and create subduction zones and mountain ranges, there are too many high-elevation points (and low elevation chasms for the ocean to fill in) for the ocean to ever cover the entire earth again. Even if all of the ice on the earth melted, apparently sea level would only rise by about 70 meters / 230 feet.

So the "and I can always cover it again" bit at the end is a bit overstated. We'd almost certainly be dead as a species if conditions were extreme enough to melt all of the ice around the world, but not because of being drowned off of dry land to live on.

I'm sorry, that must be a miscommunication. It isn't that they are "forced" to stay on the island necessarily. It's that they lack the means to leave. That is, chopping down a tree to build a boat would be stealing, and they can't swim the distance necessary to get to any other dry land.

Reminds me of yet another ironic result of our "war against terror"... the gross ignorance, arrogance, blinders-on patriotism, and raging authoritarianist bend of a new species of rightie nutter that has slithered onto dry land since 9/11.

Dry land is a myth.

Does camera guy think fish normally crawl onto dry land and swear off oxygen for 6 minutes while giving birth?

As a liveleak commenter said "the videographer is an idiot, you do realize these creatures breath water not air you dumbfuck. "

Now this is amazingly beautiful. The music fits it perfectly. Its almost like one of those things that you see and its see i don’t know so simple and different that it just makes you stop and think. It’s so strange yet just simply tranquil and serene. Sharm El Sheikh Sightseeing *sigh* I love it probably could say it is one of my all time favorite videos if not my favorite. Its as if for a time you get to fly over what would normally be dry land.

Um, excuse me, Sir -- you can't park your ship there because it's dry land and stuff. You'll have to go park it in the big blue thing.

>> ^lucky760:
No worries mate. I didn't know you were an Aussie. That's neat that they speak so much about Phelps there; I was also surprised about the lengthy discussion by the Brits in this clip. I guess he must be something special to have qualified for the Olympics at age 15. Maybe he has gills behind his ears and knows how to find dry land.


I don't think it's so much about his age, but moreso he's about to become the single largest gold medal winner in the history of the Olympics, no mean feat by any stretch.

No worries mate. I didn't know you were an Aussie. That's neat that they speak so much about Phelps there; I was also surprised about the lengthy discussion by the Brits in this clip. I guess he must be something special to have qualified for the Olympics at age 15. Maybe he has gills behind his ears and knows how to find dry land.

No sloths do swim on rare occasions during rainy seasons to switch to a new tree and they move even slower on dry land. Its dangerous for them but they have to do it. These people assumed any tree would do and that he needed their help. For all we know they put him on the tree he was trying to abandon

yeah, better do it while we're still on dry land. I keep saying I'll have waterfront property in my lifetime at this rate. lol. (I'm in Houma).

*save

tags alone

......."on dry land, that couldn't happen, even for the most, moisture loving of creatures.... an individual slug, carries both male and female organs, but even then, that was of no help......each had to both give, and receive......