Need some help
Posted by nothingheretoseego@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Hey ,I'm not a programmer nor do i have any experience with programming, my field is medicine but im an enthusiastic in history, i need some help that i think maybe programmers can help.
I believe there was a great flood before ten tausend years ago and wipe out some sophisticated and intelligence culture, i asked the same question the historian, without a proper answer they called me conspiracy theorist and advised me to stay in my field of work .Is it possible to simulate a world with erosion data and sea level rise to see how the world could be look like before a great flood? I apologise if this is not the question to ask in this community and would appreciate to know which community would be appropriate to ask such a question
Gnaxe@reddit
That kind of simulation is probably too difficult for a beginner. Look for existing software first. Many big floods and tsunamis have happened historically, and we have geologic evidence for them. A geology sub would be a much better resource to learn about those. There was never a universal flood, however. Sometimes entire cities have been wiped out by natural disasters of various kinds. Pompeii, for example.
peterlinddk@reddit
This has nothing to do with learning programming.
And the "great flood" or "mudflood" theory has been debunked thousands of times, that's probably why the historians call you a conspiracy theorist. But maybe you should look for height maps and ask in geography-related groups about how to learn more about that kind. It is nearly as far from programming as anything can be.
BranchLatter4294@reddit
Check the conspiracy theory subs.
paperic@reddit
Where was the flood?
It's perfectly reasonable to imagine that in some corner of the world there was a regional flood that flooded the "whole world" which the people in that region knew about.
The backwards savages of the time then decided to write that story into the book. Once we discovered that "the world" is a lot bigger ,than we previously thought, that book should have been updated, but it wasn't.
plastikmissile@reddit
It's possible if you have a good enough model and information on the conditions you're starting with. Scientists have used super computers to simulate these things before.
However, it should be noted that even if you manage to get this done, it remains a simulation and not proof. For that you need to find actual physical geological evidence to prove your hypothesis.
Flashy_Difference_22@reddit
bruh wrong sub
nothingheretoseego@reddit (OP)
I'm sorry which community could be appropriate to ask such a question, I'm new to reddit and can't figure out which community to ask
cipheron@reddit
Flood myths probably refer to the flooding of the Black Sea 7600 years ago, the Mediterranean poured into the area which was land before.
But there's basically zero chance of an advanced culture before that, nobody had discovered metal working until later.
miglisoft@reddit
You need to dig until you reach the relevant sedimentary layer. Once you’re there, if you look around, after a while you’ll come across the bloke who knew how to program far better than any of us do now. That’s the guy you need to ask. (It’s not meant to be rude at all, just a bit of humour to brighten up everyday life in a rather complicated world.)
DePhoeg@reddit
The answer is yes it's possible to simulate the world with conditions like that, where a large enough cycle window can freeze then 'flood'* when warmed up.
Here is the issue though, it's not 10k years.... just by how the structure of our earth is laid out and what materials are & are not actually there.
It's not something you could ever prove or disprove as the details needed are impossible to know or verify. The best you can prove is that cycles can have cycles that themselves contain cycles & those contain years.
You'll need to have more data about the universe than you could grasp, understand how movement has been affected by gravity over exceptionally long periods, and have to make inferences about one-off events that could change/adjust/alter/break cycles, for which no one has any real way to get anything meaningful.
It's not conspiracy, it's just ... useless conjecture that can never be filled out properly because no human has that kind of information for it to be useful. (let alone even if you could prove grand cycles of 10k to 100k to 1m+ cycles of deep cooling/warming naturally, what would your point be? Humans have effected the cycle in ways we don't understand) - This is to be clear I'm not confirming or denying anything about the climate.. but we really need to not let political agendas blind us to what's really going on, and ... we have to admit when something is well beyond understanding and just do our best to limit what damage we do.