Josh Clark

So the North Sea is very important.

And it's been used for a very long time.

But its depths were just unknown.

People hadn't explored it.

They didn't have the means to, really.

Yeah.

100 feet, what are you going to do?

Hold your breath?

Exactly.

I mean, the moment you get down on the bottom, you have to come right back up.

It's terrible for exploration, holding your breath is.

But there were some tantalizing clues that came up over the years that did strongly suggest that there was something down there that had once been above the sea's surface.

Exactly.

And then in usual fashion, it's worth mentioning H.G.

Wells, who's probably one of the best speculators in the history of speculative fiction.

He heard about some of those finds and he wrote a story called The Story of the Stone Age, which is basically like there's a continent under the North Sea between the UK and Europe.

Don't forget, this guy is the guy who in the late 19th century wrote stories about humans sending rockets up into space and placed the launches at Cape Canaveral.

Like that's how smart this guy was as far as seeing in the future goes.

I love it.

Yeah.