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Plato wrote over two thousand years ago about a prehistoric Atlantean civilization that existed more than nine thousand years before his time, or over eleven thousand years ago.

Nation. thank you for being here. this is your home country. we are so sorry for what your friends and loved ones have been experiencing. have you been able contact your loved ones and relatives? >> yes. >> how are they? >> its ruined but its a matter of up a all nepalese people. they are in a very difficult situation now. >> absolutely. as we have been saying. scientists had predicted. after there was a massive earthquake 81 years ago in nepal. 10,000 people killed. scientists after that calcul...

To, but can they handle anymore shocks? >> apparently they can. and today you will notice it was a magnitude 7.1 i think is the latest number. >> right. >> people go back through the records and mathematically figure about how much energy there was or precisely how much energy there was. apparently, there were hardly any tsunamis, hardly any waves created by this, and the reason would be nominally that the shifting plates are going sideways rather than up and down. well, the one three weeks ago ...

18,000 feet, theres a very long bore here from the top of the -- or where the horizon used to be, and then down here where the blowout preventer is. and then all of this soil, all of this crust. and in the crust, naturally occurring, there are cracks up and down. just because earthquakes happen. thats the shifting plates and faults. and the faults allow seepage of natural gas and oil to come up from way down here, from the oil reservoir. what the oil reservoir does, if its coming up here, the pr...