If you use Google earth to go to the West side of the Cape where, working south, the first actual river empties into the Coral Sea then in the water to the left of where the third postcard down is labelled "WWII Plane wreck" there are some dark patches in the water. View these closeup and enhance the images in your mind, or for real. Those look like a blueprint for some, perhaps ancient, ruins.
I find the sheer EGO attached to a group of apparently scientificly trained/experienced individuals in making a claim like "I can't believe a place like this still exists, especially inside a country like Australia which we believe is fairly well explored"...
Are you serious? I for one am not the least bit surprised, there will be a million and one things waiting out in the vast interior of Australia that we potentially no nothing/so little as to be virtually nothing.
Seriously, stop assuming our species is so advanced, we're really only beginning to come to wear the mantle of knowledge/wisdom. We still practice uneccessary predation (against one another as well), we still allow the greedy little cells in us to rule most of our day to day concerns, time is still a linear equation to us, our atmosphere is still a barrier....
Echoing the comment made by Zera: there are new discoveries in the Kimberlys all the time. A new genus of coniferous tree was discoved in the ninties less than 200 kn from Sydney. Ausralia is not well-explored.
I wonder if there's any chance of rediscovering an extinct species in the region (or other unexplored areas)... Say, the gastric brooding frog, or even the thylacine.
even considering all the explored area's, there is still tings you can find. within the last 15 years, there was a find of a rare flowering plant, indigenous to ONLY one small area, in the Ouachita mountains of Western Central Arkansas... somewhere that has been definately explored, and regularly has people tramping through it.
finding new things can be just a matter of paying attention to what is around you. It is not that there is Ego involved, it may just be something overlooked... or it may also be something that evolved anew.
IOW - fecal matter is insistent upon forcing itself upon the awareness of individuals at times that are not always opportune. (sh*t happens)
baudrunner
Oct 28, 2013