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  • James Cameron Will Soon Answer Your Questions On Google+

    National Geographic announced today that James Cameron, Jane Goodall, and Robert Ballard will participate in a Google+ Hangout on Sunday to answer questions from people around the world abou their studies and endeavors.

    While many know Cameron for his classic films, he also set a record with a 35,756-foot solo dive to the ocean’s deepest point in the South Pacific’s Mariana Trench last year.

    Goodall, as you may know, led a 50-year field study of wild chimpanzees, and Ballard discovered the RMS Titanic in 1985, and has pioneered the use of robotics in underwater exploration.

    Additional scientists and explorers Kyler Abernathy, Kenny Broad, Albert Lin, Krithi Karanth, Paula Kahumbu, Sebastian Cruz, and Boyd Matson will also participate in the hangout.

    The hangout will take place on Sunday, January 13 from 1PM to 2PM Eastern. You can upload video questions to YouTube with #NatGeo125, post a question on Google+ or Twitter with the same hashtag, comment on the National Geographic New Watch blog, or leave a comment on this Facebook post.

    The hangout itself can be viewed on the National Geographic Google+ Page, as well as on the NatGeo YouTube channel.

  • Biblical Flood Probably Really Happened, Expert Says

    A flood of biblical proportions more than likely really did occur around the time Noah built his ark, says one historian, and he has proof.

    Robert Ballard, who famously found the wreckage of the Titanic in 1985 and was more recently involved in the search for Amelia Earhart’s plane, says there is a very real possibility that during Noah’s time period–about 12,000 years ago–massively iced-over lands collided with the sudden rising of the Mediterranean Sea, creating a wall of water which would have wiped out everything in its path with a force 200 times greater than that of Niagara Falls.

    “Where I live in Connecticut there was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers; that’s a big ice cube,” he said. “But then it started to melt. We’re talking about the floods of our living history.”

    Ballard has been working on an underwater expedition to prove such a cataclysmic event occurred, and says he found an ancient shoreline 400 feet below the surface of the Black Sea. Carbon dating on shells discovered there prove there was an event powerful enough to bury the shoreline around 5,000 B.C., which is the time some say Noah lived.

    “It probably was a bad day,” Ballard said. “At some magic moment, it broke through and flooded this place violently, and a lot of real estate, 150,000 square kilometers of land, went under.”

    Ballard doesn’t hold out hope of actually finding an ark, but he does believe there are many treasures beneath the sea around Turkey and is making plans for more expeditions there. So far he’s found pottery and an ancient shipwreck which still held the bones of its occupants.